Posted on 09/25/2011 5:22:18 AM PDT by tobyhill
While acknowledging the hard-hit black community and budding criticisms in its ranks, President Barack Obama said in a speech Saturday night to the Congressional Black Caucus that he wouldn't give up -- and urged members of the black community to join him to jump-start the still-sluggish economy.
"I expect all of you to march with me, and press on," Obama said. "... Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do."
The unemployment rate among African-Americans is 16.7%, nearly double the national average, while 40% of black children live in poverty. Such facts have made fiscal reforms a priority for caucus members, some of whom -- most of them Democrats -- have criticized Obama for not doing enough on the issue.
They include Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, who at a caucus "jobs' tour town hall" in Detroit this month described the unemployment rate among blacks "unconscionable." She said the strategy to fix it was unclear, adding that the caucus was "getting tired" of waiting for one.
She questioned the president's decision to focus on the Midwest during a three-day jobs bus tour in August, stating that the 3 million who live in Iowa -- and are mostly white -- are roughly equal in number to the African-Americans who are out of work. She suggested that Obama's administration seemed more keen to focus on that politically important state than on the black community.
"Are the unemployed in the African-American community, including almost 45% of its youth, as important as the people of Iowa?" she asked in the statement she released ahead of the president's speech before a joint session of Congress in which he announced his jobs plan.
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For a second I thought you were talking ta me... lol I get ya though!! Liberals are racists - anyone who uses races as a means to an end is a racist.
That being said...Cain does obliterate that tactic, but it is by far not the most or even the 10th thing which makes him my candidate! He is just exactly what I want in a POTUS. It is the qualities of his character which had me at hello!
Agree, right down the line.
I believe we will have another civil war. I hope I am proven wrong. The corrupt bureaucrats that now hold many government positions aren’t going to change their ways as long as there are not any real consequences for their actions. Even if we elect a really good, honest president at this point, it will certainly be an uphill battle for him .
Well, it has been a long time between Civil Wars. Maybe that is what it will take to restore the republic.
As for electing a good, honest president: It would take a act of GOD to get us out of the mess we are in now. Good people in Washington dont stay good for very long. They come under the spell of power and end up like the rest of them.
God Help the USA...
He calls on them as brothers to rally around him, simply based on the color of their skin,excluding any whites or people of other ethnic backgrounds. If that isn't the height of racism and segregation I don't know what is.
The man's goal and only thing that makes him happy is if we continue to become a divided, weakened nation. Much like he is, half white, half black but always in constant conflict with himself as he has been since he was a child. He craves adoration and attention so much because he has no ability to rebound within himself. He must do anything to get people cheering for him and drooling all over themselves so he can feed his narcissistic ego.
Obama loves no one, not whites...not blacks... not even himself, really. He wants America to be a reflection of his deficient persona always angry and unsettled. The man in our White House has a deep, deep emotional problem and is guiding this country into despair...where he has dwelled most of his emotional life.
this is sooo eloquently true!!
Calling a man an Uncle Tom is such an ugly, demeaning and racist thing. What it comes down to is that the man is educated, hardworking, decent and successful. It says that the qualities and behavior necessary for a happy, successful and prosperous life are white. Sounds like something the Klan would say
I think Barry Obama literally hates that he is half white.
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The Racist-in-Chief speaks.
It's over. When you got to build a backstop against your base this far out, you are totally screwed.
Rabble-Rousing in it’s purest form.
Blacks get the same chance at a free education as whites do in this country, at taxpayer expense.
They choose to not attend school, instead they deal drugs—belong to gangs & shoot each other—be career criminals instead. Not much of a resume for anyone to HIRE them, Maxine.
While Barry the Imposter claims to want to spend more money on infrastructure repairs in the USA & claims to want to put Americans back to work, there is a bridge being built in California from Oakland to San Francisco.
This bridge costs $7.3 BILLION & the work is contracted out to a CHINESE construction company with CHINESE workers.
Over 3000 jobs NOT going to Americans, but being paid for with American taxpayer dollars.
The excuse? Not enough American WELDERS!!! The natural fallout of removing vocational classes from the high schools, IMO.
More SHUCK & JIVE from Barry the Imposter.
Even the blacks must be starting to tune him out.
It only makes him more shrill in his rhetoric.
The only thing missing was MOOOCHELLLE by his side dressed in her best Ghetto Chic.
Absolutely right.
Obama: I created all the conditions of your disatisfaction.....NOW MARCH WITH ME
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
I expect??? or else.....
BUT, more importantly, he is a real conservative and his opinions are right conservative. Except for a lack of political experience he is a perfect candidate even if he was running against a white Dimocrat, but against O, he has one more ace up his sleeve.
Also, really no clue on governing -- he was a state senator, then a US senator and mostly voted 'PRES ENT' and got his first job as state sen more or less on luck ditto for US Senator.
he has not been a governor, let alone a Mayor (not even of little Wasilla), so 0 experience in anything.
he can't even memorize his own speeches....
We must eat our peas.....
I think you are exactly right.
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