Posted on 08/26/2011 9:22:23 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
From the start of his history-making tenure, the nation’s first black president took care never to be seen making policy or political decisions aimed solely or directly at black America. His position: He is a president of the whole country, focused on broad-based fixes to “lift all boats.”
The race-avoidance strategy served President Obama well, helping him attract support from many whites while also mobilizing African Americans energized by the powerful symbol of a black commander in chief.
But a soaring jobless rate among African Americans and a newfound comfort by black lawmakers to criticize Obama’s economic policies are prompting the White House to recalibrate — and to focus more directly on the struggles of black America.
The shift comes amid a growing concern among some Democrats that the stubborn economic conditions in minority communities might hamper efforts by Obama’s reelection campaign to generate the large black voter turnout it needs in key cities to make up for his declining support among white independents.
This week, the White House dispatched a top official to participate in a Congressional Black Caucus jobs forum in Miami that had been scheduled in part to pressure the White House.
The official, Don Graves, the executive director of the president’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, told black lawmakers that the president would consider taking executive action to enact at least parts of jobs-related measures they have introduced to no avail in the Republican-led House.
“You may not feel like the president is listening to you, but he hears you loud and clear,” Graves told the lawmakers before an audience of hundreds crammed into the pews of the Mount Hermon African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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I didn’t think race was supposed to matter.........
The general dissatifaction and suffering by all is serving it purpose planned by the administration.
Check this out! Obama’s race card at the white hut.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61677.html
bump.
Focus more directly on the struggles of black America.
More white people are out work than blacks,
More whith people have lost homes due to Obama.
And yet they think only they should receive special treatment.Must be something in the missing cell department.
Wah ain’t yew paying fo mah gas and mah mortgage from yo stash?
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