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Obama To Launch ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative For Young Men Of Color
newsone.com ^ | 2/11/14 | D.L. Chandler

Posted on 02/12/2014 7:51:58 AM PST by Nachum

President Barack Obama (pictured) has been aggressively pushing an agenda that strengthens the core of the nation via education, job creation, and supporting middle class families. Now the administration will turn its aim to improve the lives of young men of color via an initiative titled “My Brother’s Keeper.”

Although the President has shied away from race matters in the past, there has been an undeniable shift in focus from the White House regarding the plight of young people of color who have been disproportionately slammed by poverty, lack of opportunity, and unfair prison sentences.

According to a Washington Post report, the President will officially announce the launch of this new plan this Thursday, and it comes at a critical point in his second term. President Obama has endured heavy criticism from Black leaders and other minority groups for not tailoring his policies toward their needs.

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To: Nachum

this is very “New Jack City”.

(for those in rio linda, it is a line in the movie)


21 posted on 02/12/2014 8:01:19 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nachum
My advice to Young Men Of Color: RUN! Run for your life!

Nothing good will come out of this program.
They want to make more brainwashed Obama-bots.
Get a job instead. Any Job. Learn a work skill. Anything that makes you more employable.

22 posted on 02/12/2014 8:01:32 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Nachum

Uh..... what particular color does one have to be ?


23 posted on 02/12/2014 8:02:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Nachum

I thought Holder was out saying that prisons were brother keepers. I’m confused.


24 posted on 02/12/2014 8:02:46 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Nachum
How many programs do we, the taxpayers, have to fund before the dems realize they don't work. Oh...that's right, they'll never admit it. They'll also never admit it's the breakdown of families, the culture of crime & welfare that help to promote the problem. Yes, call me racist, that's help things too.
25 posted on 02/12/2014 8:03:48 AM PST by zlala (Thank you for the ultimate sacrifice Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard, KIA 4-23-13, Pul-E-Alam, Afghanistan.)
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To: firebrand
not just black youth helping only black youth.

Besides, the Crips and Bloods already got that concession.

26 posted on 02/12/2014 8:04:16 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Nachum

Didn’t O’Reilly challenge Obama to do something about young black men fathering children, but not staying around to raise and support their family during his Superbowl interview?


27 posted on 02/12/2014 8:04:36 AM PST by Walleye_Walter (Not all Libs are stupid, but all stupid people are Libs)
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To: bushbuddy

“And yet he does nothing for his brother in Kenya who lives in a hut.”

It’s gotten so bad that people in Kenya now are saying Obama’s 100 percent American.


28 posted on 02/12/2014 8:04:45 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Scotswife
Anyone going to tell him this biblical reference comes from that nasty little Cain & Abel incident?

He knows full well what 'brother's keeper' refers to, but the devil is in the details.

29 posted on 02/12/2014 8:04:57 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: firebrand

Don’t worry, you and I and all other White Folks will be paying for it.

After all it’s “White Folks” greed that leaves the world in need.


30 posted on 02/12/2014 8:07:38 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Dilbert San Diego

What do we want?

Melanin justice!

When do we want it?

Now!


31 posted on 02/12/2014 8:07:57 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: UCANSEE2

Maybe a new college BA program. Black Male Studies. Hire thousands of teachers, raise tuition for everyone by 50% so black males can learn about themselves.

Oh yeah, and with the college degree required for jobs these days, they can take away jobs from skilled white middle 50’s applicants who lost their jobs due to other “studies” programs.


32 posted on 02/12/2014 8:08:53 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“”Isn’t it racist to have a program for young men of color?””

This was one of the subjects that O’Reilly touched on in his interview - why hadn’t he put emphasis on problems in the black families? Guess it hadn’t dawned on him before that but now he’ll get busy. Of course, his answer to BOR was he’d already been doing that!!!


33 posted on 02/12/2014 8:09:44 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Maybe a new college BA program. Black Male Studies.

Sounds like that's what that pervert Missouri football player majored in.

34 posted on 02/12/2014 8:10:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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35 posted on 02/12/2014 8:11:28 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Nachum
young people of color who have been disproportionately slammed by poverty, lack of opportunity, and unfair prison sentences their own poor choices.

ok then, fixed that so now it's truthful!
36 posted on 02/12/2014 8:11:52 AM PST by Shimmer1
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To: Walleye_Walter

“”Didn’t O’Reilly challenge Obama to do something about young black men fathering children, but not staying around to raise and support their family during his Superbowl interview?””

You are correct. I hadn’t seen your post when I posted...


37 posted on 02/12/2014 8:12:05 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Nachum

Shame the baby-daddy thugs. Push for it to be a societal no-no to abandon your kids.

Rap used to push this in the 90’s.


38 posted on 02/12/2014 8:13:37 AM PST by struggle
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To: Nachum
Obama To Launch ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative For Young Men Of Color


39 posted on 02/12/2014 8:15:44 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Nachum

Good luck in getting them to sign up. Whenever I do volunteer fundraisers, blacks are almost non-existent.


40 posted on 02/12/2014 8:16:49 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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