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    How Obama can help heal the race gap in America
    By Alan Jenkins Fri Apr 16, 8:33 am ET


    New York – African-American religious leaders emerged from a recent meeting with President Obama with words of praise and support for the job he is doing for the United States as a whole.

    That’s a marked contrast from the concerns among some black leaders and commentators who argue that the president is not doing enough to address disproportionate unemployment and economic distress in black communities.

    These disparate messages reflect a complex reality: African-Americans and other people of color are an integral part of an America that faces daunting economic challenges. And solving the daunting economic challenges for the country means understanding and addressing the unique obstacles facing diverse populations.

    A recovery strategy designed to work in New York, North Carolina, or Florida will not equally lift the prospects of Michigan, Louisiana, or California. Similarly, communities of color facing unique challenges – from concentration in hard-hit manufacturing and service sectors to persisting patterns of discrimination and segregation, to language and cultural barriers – cannot equally access initiatives that don’t explicitly consider their particular circumstances.

    Thus, while the president is surely correct in responding to critics by explaining that his job “is to be president of the whole country,” he has been wrong in saying that “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

    Being the president of all the people means attending to the differing challenges they face, as well as the common ones. And decades of economic data show that improving economic prospects for the nation as a whole does not reliably close gaps in economic security or opportunity – or plain old human suffering – for communities of color.

    In 2000, after a decade of remarkable economic growth, the poverty rate among African-Americans and Latinos was still 2-1/2 times greater than for white Americans. And from 2001 to 2003, as the economy slowed, poverty rates for most communities of color increased more dramatically than they did for whites, widening the racial poverty gap. From 2004 to 2005, while the overall number of poor Americans declined by almost 1 million, poverty rates for most communities of color actually increased.

    Similarly today, the “green shoots” of nascent recovery are not equally reaching African-Americans or Latinos. In March 2010, the unemployment rate was 8.8 percent for whites, 16.5 percent for African-Americans, and 12.6 percent for Latinos.

    Even more striking are the disparate underemployment rates, which track unemployed workers actively seeking work, involuntary part-time workers, and marginally attached workers. At the end of 2009, the rate was 14.5 percent for whites, as compared with 25 percent for both Latinos and African-Americans.

    Fortunately, Mr. Obama can be both the president of the entire country and also expand opportunities for all of its people and communities.

    For the president, the first step is to explain why it is in the interests of all Americans to create more economic opportunities – and also to make sure that everyone can make the most of these opportunities.. The president has been eloquent in explaining that we are all in it together as a nation, and that narrative must include the reality that America cannot recover and prosper if we leave large swaths of our populace behind.

    Second, the administration must do a better job of tracking and reporting the extent to which job creation, foreclosure prevention, business development, and other recovery efforts are reaching diverse communities and populations. Without that basic information it’s impossible to know whether efforts are fairly and effectively reaching Americans who most need them.

    And third, there are specific policy approaches that the administration can employ today that will help lift all boats while closing the distance between them.

    These include employing “opportunity impact statements” for projects receiving federal funds, to ensure that they create expanded and more widely shared opportunity. It also includes incentives for hiring and programs in ZIP Codes with double-digit unemployment; and ideas for focusing existing and future efforts to rebuild the “infrastructure of opportunity” – public transportation, school facilities, affordable housing, and community clinics – in neighborhoods that disproportionately lack those steppingstones to prosperity. Integrating apprenticeships and on-the-job training for disconnected workers with longer-term job prospects in growing high-tech and green industries is a crucial piece of that puzzle.

    As president of all the people, it is normal for Obama to have differences of opinion and approach with particular constituencies over particular issues, and his relationships with black communities and black leaders will have their share of tensions.

    These tensions can be cynical and caustic, or they can be healthy and constructive. The president and his critics should choose the latter, and thus open the path of progress, for all of America.

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    Samuel L. Jackson: ‘I Voted for Barack Because He Was Black’
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    Samuel L. Jackson only voted for President Barack Obama because of the color of his skin, the Hollywood actor revealed in a profanity-laced interview in the March issue of Ebony magazine. “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” Jackson said. "That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean sh-t to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do.

    According to the New York Post, the "Pulp Fiction" legend repeatedly dropped the N-word during his cover story interview. “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]," Jackson said. "Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar" -- an apparent reference to Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during Obama's health care address to a joint session of Congress in 2009.

    Jackson continued, "A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”

    Defending his repeated use of the racial epithet, Jackson said it "became a part of my vocabulary when I was born." 'Because it was used on me in my house, often . . . I know the word [bleep] as an admonishment, an endearment, a criticism and an invective. So I use it; I don’t run from it. I don’t have an issue with it or who says it. I always put it in the context of how it was used on me," he said.

    Jackson previously made political headlines in October, when he agreed with fellow actor Morgan Freeman's assessment that the Tea Party was "racist." “It’s pretty obvious what they are,” Jackson said in an interview with New York Magazine. “The division of the country is not about the government having too much power. I think everything right now is geared toward getting that guy out of office, whatever that means.”

    Jackson continued, “It’s not politics. It is not economics. It all boils down to pretty much to race. It is a shame.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/samuel-l-jacks...174806076.html

    LOL - So Jackson voted for BO solely based on his skin color - "because that is what people do" .... but calls racist anyone ELSE who does the same? :

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    If its a shame, then why did you do it?

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    The moral of this story is: Multi-culturalism has completely failed in America. It's a trick to destroy Whites. It weakens the nation. And we should all get over with it and the cult of diversity and political correctness. All it will produce is people like this.

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    Most people voted for him, for that exact reason. Nothing new.

    Then again, it would have been equally as bad to vote for McCain and his pal Palin ??

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    Hopefully we won't have anymore people making stupid mistakes like this again. It is not reason to vote for someone, pick the guy that is most likely not going to take advantage of his position.

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    That's a good reason to vote, cause whitey do it, just shows to go you, ingorance is not confined to whitey only, it reaches all the way cross the aisle to tupid.

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    AND I will vote for RINO Romney because he is...WHITE!...(honestly can't think of any other logical reason)[/i]
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    Samuel L. Jackson's 'racist' reason for voting Obama: 'Because he was black'
    Editorial Staff | The Week – 5 hrs ago


    In an interview with Ebony, Jackson shares his views on the American political system. Not everyone is appreciative. Amid grumbling from some black intellectuals and media personalities about Obama's record on tackling poverty, says Newsweek's Allison Samuels, Black Hollywood is weighing how much to support President Obama's reelection campaign. When Ebony asked actor Samuel L. Jackson where he stood, his answer raised some eyebrows. Obama's "message didn't mean sh*t to me," Jackson said, according to the New York Post. "I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do." Implying that Obama has not yet been able to behave like a "scary" "n*gga," Jackson said he hopes Obama will be more "scary" in his second term, "cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected." "I voted for Barack because he was black," Jackson said. "Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them." Is this an honest insight, or gross intolerance?

    Give him points for honesty: Well, "leave it to Samuel L. Jackson to keep it real," says ReBecca Theodore-Vachon in The Urban Daily. Agree with him or not, he "has no shame in his game that he voted for President Obama because of his race."

    Jackson's an "ignorant buffoon": The Pulp Fiction star "clearly is proud that he never lets politics get in the way of his bigotry," but he's also empirically wrong, says Selwyn Duke in American Thinker. After all, Obama won 43 percent of the white vote in 2008, including 54 percent of young whites, proving that at least "whites can be colorblind." On the other hand, 96 percent of blacks supported Obama. Make of that what you will.

    This is insulting... to Obama: All this interview tells us is that Jackson is so worried about his career he feels the need to "make some ridiculous, racist, disgusting comments about President Obama," says Mikel Alger in Impre. People voted for Obama because they wanted change, and "one of these changes was better relations between the races and cultures of the United States." And calling the president a "n***er"? No way, Jackson. "Hopefully these statements are the end of his career."

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    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

    ~ Martin Luther King
    .White High Schooler Returns Scholarship Intended for Black Students
    By ALON HARISH | ABC News – 20 hrs ago



    When a student who won a scholarship for African-American students walked to the stage at a Riverside, Calif., high school to pick up his award, the audience laughed nervously. The student, Jeffrey Warren, was white.

    Warren, 17, a recent graduate of Riverside's King High School, won a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by Riverside's Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club. While a cover letter to guidance counselors indicated that the award was intended only for black students, the application merely "encourage[d] African-American students to apply," according to King High School Principal Darel Hansen.

    The morning after the ceremony, Warren returned the money. Since then, his story has made national headlines.

    Warren's father Rod, a language arts teacher at King High School, said he told his son to apply for every scholarship for which he might be eligible. Since the application did not explicitly rule out non-black applicants, the soon-to-be San Diego State freshman gave it a shot. Out of the 27 scholarships for which he applied, he won four, including the one he later gave up. "The laughter was slight at the beginning, then it got louder," Rod Warren said. "You could tell the [award presenters] were surprised, but they shook his hand and gave it to him."

    When the Warrens returned home from the ceremony, they concluded that returning the money was the right thing to do.

    Etta Brown, the chairwoman of the MLK Senior Citizens Club's scholarships committee, said she was shocked when she realized the winner of her group's scholarship was a white student. Since the scholarship was created in 2005, it had never been awarded to a non-black student.

    Warren's decision to return the award was "generous," she said. Since the application did not explicitly disqualify non-black students, she said the group would not have asked Warren to give it back, despite some internal debate. In the future, the application will be worded more clearly.

    Rod Warren said his son reasoned that if he were ineligible for the scholarship, the issue would be resolved at the interview stage of the application process. The interview, however, was over the phone, and Brown said it never occurred to the reader who interviewed Warren that the interviewee might be white.

    After news of Jeffrey's decision to decline the scholarship spread, Susan Jaggers, his former math teacher, launched a campaign to compensate him for the sacrifice. Circulating a framed picture of Warren to all the teachers whose classes he took at King High School, Jaggers has so far yielded $351. "We didn't totally replace the money, but I knew many of [Warren's former teachers] would be willing to throw a few bones," Jaggers said. "All his teachers love him."

    Warren's scholarship has been given to an African-American student who will be attending Cornell University in the fall. The second of the scholarship's two winners is a North High School student who will be attending Xavier University.

    http://news.yahoo.com/white-high-sch...opstories.html

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    I thought it was wrong to change the way we treat others based on skin color?

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    I have lost track of what is & isn't racism anymore.

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    Are there any white-only scholarships ...or would that be racist?

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    MLK, didn't he want us all to be equal? Why have a "black" scholarship then? He should have kept the scholarship, they awarded it to him, they thought Jeffrey deserved it.

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    "Etta Brown, the chairwoman of the MLK Senior Citizens Club's scholarships committee, said she was shocked when she realized the winner of her group's scholarship was a white student"
    That people is %100 RACISM!

    Wow imagine if the colors were changed how this story would read.... Regardless all involved showed the utmost class. Jeffery Warren should set up a website so we can donate.

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    I'm not sure how in America, in an age where we have laws against segregation and a great portion of the population is against institutionalized racism, that you can have a "blacks only" scholarship.

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    A nice example of what is wrong with this country. Giving scholarships based upon skin color instead of academic achievement. That's why the education system in this country is losing it's prestige around the world.

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    Yep, If this story was color reversed it would be a whole week of Liberal headlines and the main issue would be the racist aspects of scholarship money designated only for a White student!

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    Im so ticked off at articles like this, explain to me just how there can be a scholarship thats only for blacks, just how does that happen. I often wish I had enough money to offer a scholarship to only whites, or start a white entertainment television or give out white actor only awards just to fight all the lawsuits by the NAACP and all those organizations who would claim racism when they are doing the exact same thing with crap like this and black only award and black only scholarships, why is it ok for them to be racist.

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    Would the same school accept a scolarship sponsor who specified "whites only"? The whole thing stinks. As long as American blacks insist on unequally favorably treatment, they will be looked upon as unequal by whites, asians, latinos.

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    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
    I think that this boy showed everyone the content of his character. The scholarship should be returned to him by the Riverside's Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club with their apologies. In the future, if they only want African American student to be eligiable, then they should specify that in the application. Although if they do that, they will not be following Dr King's philosophy.
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    White student lauded after returning college scholarship meant for blacks
    Jeffrey Warren found out on senior awards night that he was the winner of a scholarship meant for African-American students.
    By James Eng, msnbc.com

    No big deal.

    That's how 17-year-old Jeffrey Warren describes his decision to return a $1,000 college scholarship meant for black students. “I just thought it was the right thing to do,” says Warren, who is white. His decision is winning him praise for his character – and offers of alternate financial help.

    A hush, followed by some giggles, enveloped the Martin Luther King High School gym in Riverside, Calif., when it was announced on senior awards night that Warren was the winner of the scholarship awarded by the local Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club. The $1,000 scholarship, one of two awarded annually by the seniors club, is meant for African-American students. Club members didn’t know Warren is white until he rose to receive the award. “We just couldn’t believe it at the outset. It was really something. There was a mixed feeling in the crowd,” recalled Etta Brown, chairwoman of the club’s scholarship committee, of the May 22 ceremony.

    “People were surprised. Laughter started to come up from crowd,” Warren said. “They still shook my hand, they still said ‘thank you.’”

    After some contemplation, Warren and his parents decided to return the scholarship. They sent an email the next day informing the MLK senior citizens club of the decision. “They said they would accept it back. They were very nice about it. They thanked me for being generous and for being a great kid,” Warren told msnbc.com on Tuesday.

    “Jeffrey and I wanted them to be happy,” Rod Warren, who teaches language arts at the high school, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise, which first reported on the episode. “The ladies were trying to do something really nice.”

    The scholarship application itself stated only that African-Americans were “encouraged” to apply. Warren applied online and apparently never saw a separate letter sent to school counselors specifying that it was for black students. Some club members felt Jeffrey should be allowed to keep the scholarship, Brown told msnbc.com. “It was a very thoughtful decision between his family and himself that they would not accept it,” she said.

    “I think it say a lot for his character and it says a lot of the character for the family,” said King High School Principal Darel Hansen. “This was not something the school or school district asked him to do. He in our opinion won the award in good faith though there was a mix-up.”

    Jeffrey’s scholarship was later awarded to a runner-up -- a female African-American student. Organizations using private money, like the MLK seniors club, are allowed to set their own eligibility criteria for scholarships they grant. Brown said the club’s scholarship committee will meet to revise the language on the application to clarify it's for African-American students so there’s no misunderstanding in the future.

    Warren won’t be totally lacking in financial help for college. Rod Warren told the Press-Enterprise his son applied for 27 scholarships and also won three others, two for $2,000 each and another $500 scholarship.

    Hansen told msnbc.com that since the story made local headlines, several people have contacted the school “asking where they could send a check to make a donation to Jeffrey.” Several teachers also showed up at his graduation party at his home on Saturday and presented him with an envelope with $351 in cash donations collected from school staff.

    Warren said he plans to attend San Diego State University in the fall where he will major in English or business, or both. He says he wants to teach, like his dad.

    Brown thinks he has a bright future ahead. “He’s a really neat student,” Brown said. “He deserved it (the scholarship). Martin Luther King would say he did everything right.”

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    Can I Tell This Story and Not be Racist?
    June 24, 2012 by Gary DeMar

    I’ve been thinking a lot about race lately. There’s no way to escape the topic since nearly everybody and his brother are accusing conservatives of being racists.

    Eric Holder said that Americans are cowards when it comes to race. Maybe we are. No one likes to be called a racist. I’m not a coward. I want to talk about race since many black neighborhoods and schools are disintegrating. Too many young blacks have succumbed to an ingrown black culture that is not healthy. Cultural integrity can be a good thing, but not when it’s manufactured in the name of a blame-game.

    Blacks are going to have to save themselves. The place to start is where the disintegration is most visible.

    Consider these statistics from The New Century Foundation’s The Color of Crime (2005), an American report on the differences in crime rates by race. It found the following: http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/national/...ty-populations

    Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.

    Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate.

    Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.

    Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.

    Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.

    Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white.

    Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely.

    Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than whites. Hispanics are three times more likely.
    As difficult as blacks had it during the days of segregation, a distinctly black culture developed even in the prevalence of racist attitudes and restrictive laws. We forget, or have never been told, that Washington, D.C., from 1920 to 1960, “was a financial, spiritual, and cultural stronghold. Because Washington was a segregated city, blacks simply created their own metropolis. . . . The first black bank, the Industrial Savings Bank, was started here.” While “the black population of New York’s Harlem inherited many of its buildings from previous white owners, . . . many of the buildings in Shaw were paid for by black businessmen and built by black hands.”[1]

    Families were intact, the divorce and unwed mother rates were no different from that of white communities.

    Take a look photographs of the 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Notice how everyone is dressed. Most of the men are wearing suits and ties. Many of the women are wearing hats, as are the men. There is a dignity about the crowd.

    Blacks are not helped by the continued claim that all problems for them are racial. Some are, but most aren’t. Black on black crime is not the fault of white people. Sky-high out-of-wedlock births are not the fault of whites. High dropout rates among blacks are not the fault of whites. The solution is not to cry “racism” and blame everything on whites or hundreds of years of oppression. Blacks won’t find their problems solved by appealing to the State.

    Welfare programs have done a lot to keep black families down by subsidizing family fragmentation and fostering multi-generational dependency. Black problems aren’t solved by naming streets after Martin Luther King, Jr. The same can be said for the King Holiday and Black History Month. These are liberal crumbs to appease the black community, but have any of these actions helped blacks?

    Guilt-ridden whites vote for the advocates of government dependency, and anyone who does not will be labeled — you guessed it — a “racist.” It’s a cover for the bill of goods that so-called black leaders sold to their people in the name of “social justice.”

    Subsidies have led to the immobility of the poor, the breakup of the black family, and dependency on government programs. My message to blacks: Do the right thing and work to fix it. Cast aside those who have been leading down the real road to recovery. Will the task be hard? Herculean. Are there people who will pitch in to help? Lots! But we won’t do it if the answer is going to be more government, guilt, and charges of ‘racism’ every time you don’t like what’s being offered as real solutions.

    Blacks of America unite . . . the only thing you have to lose are your chains of dependency and victimhood.

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    The civil rights movement destroyed black independence and the black infrastructure. Before civil rights it seems as if blacks, in general, were much better off before and during the time of the civil rights movement. For the most part, there was no major prevalence of out-of-wedlock children, and deadbeat dads. Generally speaking, there were two-parent households; black children weren't causing problems in school; parents took an active role in their child's education; and black people took pride in their appearance.

    Why is it "racist" to talk about it? The answer is simple. Because the progressive libs have made it so that no one brings up the comparison's of past and present. By inserting racism into the equation no one will dare even discuss it as screaming "racist" is the way to stop any intelligent discussion on the matter.

    By not discussing it, the progressive libs can keep the plantation mentality alive where black is dependent on the system for his sustenance instead of independence. The very best thing our society can do is get rid of the "wall of political correctness" so that intelligent folks both black and white can discuss the ills of society and how to best correct them.

    Bottom line socialism of the past 50 years has destroyed our society.

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    I wouldn't blame the deterioration of black society on the civil rights movement. Read MLK's famous "I have a dream" speech. He wanted an end to distinction by color. It was Lyndon Baines Johnson and his obscene "Great Society" that set out to buy black support for the Democrat party, realizing that their votes would otherwise go to the Republicans, who were the supporters of civil rights. The massive handouts, with their encouragement of single parenthood and illegitimate births, served to break up the black nuclear family. What black society should be ashamed of is that instead of following through on MLK's dream, they let themselves be bought.

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    Absolutely correct! LBJ has often been credited with saying when he signed that bill into law, "this will keep the ni&&ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years!" Because welfare is not a hand-up, it is a hand-out that is designed to lift recipients to just about the "Misery Line" and it insures they will remain there, by offering just enough money to dissaude the unskilled from finding entry level jobs, because they would loose their meager benefits..

    The "leadership" of the black community is bent on creating, maximizing and prioritizing the difference between the races. Instead of trying to build bridges to the future in a post racial world, they (the leadership of the black community) only wish to look backwards at burned bridges. Their entire power base is defined by the Black Communities self segregation.

    Having spent a decade teaching in Harlem and the South Bronx, I am convinced that to participate in the Entitlement system on a lifelong basis is to sacrifice all forms of self-respect. This is why killing in the inner city is so rampant, how can one youth have empathy or compassion for another, when they have no love or respect for themselves? The entitlement system literally "breeds" it out them by encouraging factured families, and this was clearly by design.

    When talking about self-respect and creating a better world for the Black community, I prefer to quote Malcom X who said "You cannot give a man that which he will not give himself."

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    You are correct. let us add to the list the new race baiters. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the like.They make vast amounts of money keeping the racial divide open. They do not want their black followers to get out of the swamp!

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    While working in the Federal Prison System, I often heard the remark "you/ they disrespected me". Of course it was always from a black inmate, especially towards a white inmate or a staff member. When they came before the trial board within the prison, I would tell them this, "first, you have to respect yourself before you can expect others to respect you. Respect is earned, not granted. Just because you are black does not automatically gain you the respect of others". Of course they did not like that answer and I always got a look or a comment of insolence from the inmate. That usually earned him another few weeks in solitary. Attitude adjustment!! Did it work?

    Sometimes. But, when they did have an attitude adjustment and started to respect themselves and others, they found out they earned more respect from others.

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    I have said it before and I will say it again. A Republican freed the slaves and the Democrats have been trying to put them back in chains ever since. The chains are the chains of dependance for sustenance. Many have seen through this ruse but others believe they have to vote
    Democrat to live.

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    We have 7 generations of welfare families today and Obama's redistribution of wealth will just exacerbate the problem. The Dems want the Blacks to stay on the plantation so to speak so they will be obligated to their party. It's time for change alright. Let's get the people working and off of welfare.
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    How Obama can help heal the race gap in America
    By Alan Jenkins Fri Apr 16, 8:33 am ET
    Samuel L. Jackson: ‘I Voted for Barack Because He Was Black’
    The Blaze – 3 hrs ago 2/11/2012
    Obama not Black Enough Like Me For Morgan Freeman And Why It Matters

    Damn, you know Obama is doing a bad job when blacks begin to disown him. http://www.mediaite.com/online/morga...ack-president/ The fact is, as ugly as the sentiment may be, Freeman isn't alone in it. On June 26, I posted: Is Obama losing his black "Essence"? http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...k-essence.html I noticed comments similar to Freeman's in some reading involving Essence magazine. http://www.npr.org/2012/07/05/156212...nt-for-u-s-yet

    “First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America,” Freeman said. “There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president.”
    Fact is, black voter participation was high in 2008 and Obama won an unprecedented proportion of it, even as a Democrat. They routinely carry the black vote. But by how much matters - most especially in Obama's case.

    A decline in participation, along with a gap in enthusiasm for him, even among those who do show up, could prove disastrous for Obama's re-election chances. However unpleasant, Freeman's sentiments are relevant to the 2012 election.

    http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...t-matters.html
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    Angry white dude with beer in hand yells profanities at black politician

    But it isn’t national news because the black politician is a Republican. As documented by Shark-Tank.net, the following happened to Allen West in Delray Beach, FL on July 4:

    WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE, LIBERALISM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWLa...layer_embedded

    Well, those kids are going to learn that sort of language eventually. Why not learn it from this leading light of society?

    Keep in mind, this guy isn’t a racist. As you just heard, he differs with West for very specific policy reasons. But hey, if West wants to change parties…

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/06/an...#ixzz1zqyApmZl

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/06/an...#ixzz1zqy3B2dd
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    Chait Hate
    By Aaron Goldstein on 7.27.12 @ 4:58PM

    With regard to the comments from Jim and Quin on this matter, is anybody really surprised that Jonathan Chait would assert that Mitt Romney's criticism of President Obama's infamous "You Didn't Build That" remark is racist? http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07...hat-works.html

    Let us not forget that it was Chait who in 2003 began an article with, "I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it." Of course, if any conservative writer were to include a sentence which read "I hate President Barack Obama", Chait would be the first amongst a legion of liberals to denounce the conservative writer in question as racist. http://www.tnr.com/article/mad-about-you

    As with many liberals, Chait does not approach conservatism and its adherents rationally. He looks upon both conservatism and conservatives with hatred in both his mind and heart. So when Chait makes his latest charge we have to consider the source. With that now let's consider these two sentences:

    Watch Obama's delivery in the snippet put together by this Republican ad. The key thing is that Obama is angry, and he's talking not in his normal voice but in a "black dialect."
    But it is President Obama who chose to be angry in that moment. It is President Obama who chose not to talk, as Chait puts it, "in his normal voice." It is President Obama who chose to stray from the teleprompter. No Republican made Obama do that. President Obama is responsible for what he says and does. Thus President Obama has only himself to blame for striking the wrong chord with the American people during his speech in Roanoke, Virginia.

    Now as long as there are liberal politicians and liberal writers who insist any criticism of President Obama as an act of racism, conservatives have an obligation to call them out on it. We have an obligation to tell the Jonathan Chaits of the world that they cheapen the meaning of racism and therefore cheapen themselves. We also have an obligation to tell liberals that there going to have to better than that. Because as long as Jonathan Chait is considered a leading light amongst liberals, it tells you how much the intellectual foundations of American liberalism have flickered out.

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    In Obama era, have race relations improved?
    By JESSE WASHINGTON | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago.

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ask Americans how race relations have changed under their first black president and they are ready with answers.

    Ashley Ray, a white woman, hears more people debating racial issues. "I know a lot of people who really thought we were OK as a nation, a culture, and now they understand that we're not," she says.

    Karl Douglass, a black man, sees stereotypes easing. "White people deal with me and my family differently," he says.

    Jose Lozano, who is Hispanic by way of Puerto Rico, believes prejudice is emerging from the shadows. "Now the racism is coming out," he says.

    In the afterglow of Barack Obama's historic victory, most people in the United States believed that race relations would improve. Nearly four years later, has that dream come true? Americans have no shortage of thoughtful opinions, and no consensus.

    As the nation moves toward the multiracial future heralded by this son of an African father and white mother, the events of Obama's first term, and what people make of them, help trace the racial arc of his presidency.

    Shortly before the 2008 election, 56 percent of Americans surveyed by the Gallup organization said that race relations would improve if Obama were elected. One day after his victory, 70 percent said race relations would improve and only 10 percent predicted they would get worse.

    Just weeks after taking office, Obama said, "There was justifiable pride on the part of the country that we had taken a step to move us beyond some of the searing legacies of racial discrimination."

    Then he joked, "But that lasted about a day."

    Or, rather, three months.

    By July 2009, the black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for yelling at a white police officer who questioned whether Gates had broken into his own home. Asked to comment, Obama said he didn't know all the facts, but Gates was a personal friend and the officer had acted "stupidly."

    The uproar was immediate. Obama acknowledged afterward, "I could've calibrated those words differently."

    Ed Cattaneo, a retired computer training manager from Cape May, N.J., points to that episode as evidence of how Obama has hurt race relations.

    "He's made them terrible," says Cattaneo, who is white. He also sees Obama as siding against white people through actions such as his Justice Department's decision to drop voter intimidation charges against New Black Panthers and in a program to turn out the black vote called "African-Americans for Obama."

    Larry Sharkey, also white, draws different conclusions from the past four years.

    "Attitudes are much better," Sharkey says as he slices raw meat in a Philadelphia butcher shop. He remembers welcoming a black family that moved next door to him 20 years ago in Claymont, Del. A white neighbor advised him not to associate with the new arrivals, warning, "Your property values are going to go down."

    That kind of thing would never happen today, Sharkey says.

    As Obama dealt with fallout from the Gates affair during the summer of 2009, the tea party coalesced out of opposition to Obama's stimulus and health care proposals. The vast majority of tea partyers were white. A small number of them displayed racist signs or were connected to white supremacist groups, prompting the question: Are Obama's opponents motivated by dislike of the president's policies, his race — or both?

    As that debate grew, Obama retreated to the race-neutral stance that has been a hallmark of his career. An October 2009 Gallup poll showed a large drop in racial optimism since the election, with 41 percent of respondents saying that race relations had improved under Obama. Thirty-five percent said there was no change and 22 percent said race relations were worse.

    The president has discussed race in occasional speeches to groups such as the National Urban League or the National Council of La Raza, and in interviews with Hispanic and African-American media outlets. But he usually walks a careful line, allowing the nation to get used to the idea of a black president without doing things to make race seem a central aspect of his governance.

    "There is a totally different psychological frame of reference that this country has never had," says William Smith, executive director of the National Center for Race Amity at Wheelock College.

    He cites evidence of progress from the mindset of children in his programs to new history curriculums in Deep South schools.

    "To me, that's a quantum leap," Smith says.

    Douglass, a real estate agent from Columbus, Ga., says white people seem less surprised to see him with his wife and daughter in places such as an art museum or a foreign language school.

    "I think white people deal with me and my family differently since an African-American man is leader of the free world and a nuclear black family lives in the White House," he says.

    But Steven Chen, an Asian-American graduate student in Philadelphia, points to racial rhetoric he has heard directed toward Obama, in person and online, as proof that race relations have deteriorated.

    He also has observed a more visible sign of division: fewer Obama T-shirts.

    "When he was elected, it was an American thing. People of all races wore them," says Chen. "Today it's a distinctly black phenomenon."

    Ray, a graduate school administrator from Chicago, is uncertain whether race relations have remained the same or gotten worse.

    It's good that people are talking about race more, she says, "but I know quite a few people who are sick of those discussions and blame him for all of it."

    In the summer of 2010, race and politics collided again when Arizona Republicans passed an immigration law that critics said would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics.

    Lozano, the police sergeant, remembers that when Obama visited Arizona and met with the governor, who supported the law, she wagged an angry finger in the president's face.

    "That was ugly, I've never seen anything like that," says Lozano, who also is vice president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers. "There's no way that would have ever happened to a white president."

    By the fall of 2010, Republicans had triumphed in the midterm elections and made history by electing Hispanic and Indian-American governors in New Mexico, South Carolina, and Nevada. Two black Republicans also went to Congress, from South Carolina and Florida.

    Less than a year later, an August 2011 Gallup poll showed a further decline in racial optimism: 35 percent said race relations had improved due to Obama's election, 41 percent said no change, and 23 percent said things were worse.

    Around this time, some African-American lawmakers and pundits openly complained about the president's refusal to specifically target any programs at high black unemployment. An interviewer from Black Entertainment Television asked Obama why not.

    "That's not how America works," Obama replied.

    Then came this February's killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is from Peru. Authorities initially declined to charge Zimmerman with a crime, causing a polarizing uproar.

    This time, when asked about the case, Obama delivered a carefully calibrated message. He said all the facts were not known, the legal system should take its course — and that "if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."

    The comment was factual, but it still strikes Cattaneo as a coded message to black people that Obama is on their side. "A lot of people I talk to can't understand why a man who's half-white and half-black is so anti-white."

    This April, in a poll by the National Journal and the University of Phoenix, 33 percent felt race relations were getting better, 23 percent said they were getting worse, and 42 percent said they were staying about the same.

    So where are we now?

    Four years after Obama smashed the nation's highest racial barrier, and less than four months before America will decide whether he deserves a second term, the nation is uncertain about the meaning of a black president.

    Recently, Obama was asked in a Rolling Stone magazine interview if race relations were any different than when he took office. "I never bought into the notion," Obama said, "that by electing me, somehow we were entering into a postracial period."

    http://news.yahoo.com/obama-era-race...122353820.html
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