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Baltimore featured in Obama documentary
The Baltimore Sun ^ | June 19, 2015 | John Fritze

Posted on 06/20/2015 3:16:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Baltimore County schools are featured in a documentary that will air this weekend about President Barack Obama's initiative to help young men of color..

The film, which will run Sunday on the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network, is focused on the president's My Brother's Keeper effort, which uses private money to target job training and educational programs at young men.

"I always see myself in them," Obama said in a portion of the documentary released Friday. "I do know what it means to come of age uncertain about your place and not clear about what it means to become a man."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; baltimore; banglist; blackkk; blacks; charleston; discoverychannel; mybrotherskeeper; obama; obamadocumentary; oprah; oprahwinfrey; race; secondamendment; southcarolina; transracial
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama's initiative to help young men of color.

And does Obama have an initiative to help young white men too?

21 posted on 06/20/2015 6:52:28 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama: All the news that's fit to control and manage.)
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Yes, you're right. He's never understood fundamentally why black Americans lag behind so many other groups in the USA. If racism were the only explanation, why do foreign born black Americans have greater average incomes than American born black Americans? I'd say it's largely because those folks come with intact families and greater focus on work. Their homelands didn't give them much help and they expect to have to go out and get it on their own.

See the link.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/04/09/a-rising-share-of-the-u-s-black-population-is-foreign-born/st_2015-04-09_black-immigrants-13/

22 posted on 06/20/2015 7:07:52 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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We need a law that says welfare has to skip a generation. If you have been a welfare child, you are not eligible for welfare as an adult. If you are a welfare child, you would need to get an education and a job.


23 posted on 06/20/2015 7:14:32 AM PDT by abclily
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To: elhombrelibre

wow. South American blacks do pretty well. They make more than the average of all US adults. I would have never thought.

10,000 is a large gap. You are right. I wonder if this includes welfare for the American blacks.


24 posted on 06/20/2015 7:27:47 AM PDT by dp0622
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At the very least. What is an adult doing on welfare for more than the time it takes to find another job.

My friends worked at a check cashing place and the number of healthy young black men coming in was staggering, he said.


25 posted on 06/20/2015 7:29:02 AM PDT by dp0622
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I would imagine it includes welfare, but, and I’m not trying to be funny, welfare isn’t going to make anyone wealthy. I guess if they then had a job where they’re paid under the table their income could be pretty good.


26 posted on 06/20/2015 8:24:44 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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no. welfare doesnt pay alot. but the section 8 and food stamps add up.
I have a cousin on SS who never worked. He’s the outcast lol.
between money and rent subsidies and food stamps, he gets about 2k per month.


27 posted on 06/20/2015 8:44:36 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


28 posted on 06/20/2015 9:24:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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