How The Obama Administration Talks to Black America

[No1]

i take a lot of shyts

While we're here put me onto this stock market game thing. I don't have any clue what I'm supposed to do. I couldn't play before because I had the stayfocused app installed on my browser, since exams are done I uninstalled it.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

i dont know how he has addressed it. i dont see him using the bully pulpit to appeal to the country to write up some new laws, or use his powers to effectively stop enforcement of the law in any way like he did for the dream act issue.

ending the drug war is not just letting nikkas out of jail. it is de-escalating the black market for drugs in our communities, making them safer. you cant build the economy in a warzone.

Obama Signs Bill Reducing Cocaine Sentencing Gap | Breaking News for Black America

Like I said, there is more to be done. But he has addressed this issue more than any passed president, and more than mcain or Romney would have.

In my opinion the strides he's made in education will do more for the black prison rate and communty warzones than fighting to end the war on drugs. People turn to crime for economic reasons. If we can increase economic/educational opportunity then drug use and crime will naturally decrease. And although there is plenty more to be done, I believe Obama has moved us in the correct direction.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

i'm late coming to the thread, but i feel like context needs to be applied. in this particular case at least. i don't particularly condone this kind of attitude for the black community at large, but his was a speech given to men graduating from morehouse. men that've been proving themselves thus far. i can't help but look at the speech in that regard, as an encouragement to them... you know, basically saying, "you've come this far, now it's time to enter to the real world and make a real difference. don't allow 'excuses' to be the thing that deters you."-- we need that. granted our community as a whole is dealing with a lot of bullshyt, but there's a lot of us out there that are in the perfect position to BE the change that we want to see. fukk depending on president obama or anybody else and blaming it on them. lets step to the occasion and rise... for everyone.

 

[Type Username Here]

Securing American Energy | The White House

You don't know what the New Deal was, do you? Be honest. Can you link me to where the Obama Administration directly used government dollars to train, equip and employ disenfranchised unemployed workers to build our green infrastructure? No. Okay.

PolitiFact | The Obameter: Increase minority access to capital

Are Minorities Getting Enough Out of the Stimulus? - TIME

This lasted only while the stimulus funded it. Proof that minorities were bypassed. Please try again. It increased, but only by a fraction. Matter of fact, Bush actually increased several minority business loans on several different fronts:

New Markets Tax Credits for Minority Business: Since this program began last year, millions of dollars have aided minority business development. Treasury Secretary Snow recently announced an award of $127 million in tax credits for equity and debt financing of businesses in low-income areas. With part of a major New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) award for business finance, the National Urban League will provide financial counseling in underserved areas.

Minority Home Ownership Initiative: Minority homeownership is at an all-time high. In June 2002, the President announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. The Census estimates an increase of 1.54 million minority homeowners since the President launched his initiative. The President signed the American Dream Downpayment Act into law, which will help an additional 40,000 low-income families each year own homes. In his FY 2005 budget, President Bush proposed the Zero-Downpayment Initiative for Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured single-family mortgages for first-time homebuyers.

Minority-Serving Institutions: The President strongly supports the work and mission of America's minority-serving institutions as they seek to empower students with the skills they need to succeed and compete for the high-demand jobs of the 21st Century. The Bush Administration has increased funding for minority-serving institutions by 30 percent over four years, with funding increasing for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Graduate Institutions, and Hispanic-serving Institutions from $298.5 million in FY 2001 to a requested $395 million in the FY 2005 budget.

SBA Financing Record: Last year SBA business loans for minorities increased by 40% and for African-Americans by 75%. The record numbers of loans will likely be exceeded this year.

First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Gets Obama Nod - The Home Front (usnews.com)

This lasted one year, did not target any minorities, and was a tax credit. You had to buy a house first and then apply for the tax credit, which had several restrictions.


Very disingenuous posting, but I applaud the effort.

 

[Born2BKing]

Got damn it, you done talking bullshyt now? I am disapoint.

 

[Hood Critic]

Haven't read the thread but somebody needs to say it...nikkas still out here using 20+ year old excuses about the "white man this" or "the white man that...".

Institutional racism still exists in this country, we as blacks are still under represented in upper management, executive and prestigious positions. But's it's 2013 jack!! If you not out here attempting to better your self with some sort of education in an attempt to compete with the rest of the workforce, you really don't have much to complain about.

Now, more than ever, if you don't move your feet - you ain't going to eat!

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

While we're here put me onto this stock market game thing. I don't have any clue what I'm supposed to do. I couldn't play before because I had the stayfocused app installed on my browser, since exams are done I uninstalled it.

game has 40 days left breh... might as well wait. we can def start another one

after i win this one

 

[superunknown23]

Younge is English... Who the fukk cares about his opinion on black America?

 

[CACtain Planet]

Exams are done breh. My job doesn't start for another couple weeks. You get two weeks of verbose BarNone

Why did you change the thread title again?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

You don't know what the New Deal was, do you? Be honest. Can you link me to where the Obama Administration directly used government dollars to train, equip and employ disenfranchised unemployed workers to build our green infrastructure? No. Okay.

The new deal was passed by congress. No presidential administration has every trained, equipped or employed disenfranchised workers. If it was to be done today it would have to be done by congress. Obama himself has advocated these types of actions. Congress needs to enact them.

Are Minorities Getting Enough Out of the Stimulus? - TIME

This lasted only while the stimulus funded it. Proof that minorities were bypassed. Please try again. It increased, but only by a fraction. Matter of fact, Bush actually increased several minority business loans on several different fronts:

There were programs geared at minorites and minorites received a lot of money. You can argue the effectiveness, but you can't say it wasn't done.

This lasted one year, did not target any minorities, and was a tax credit. You had to buy a house first and then apply for the tax credit, which had several restrictions.

Again you can argue the effectiveness, but he did address the issue. Mcain or Romney would have done NOTHING.

Very disingenuous posting, but I applaud the effort.

Yeah I know, you should just stop

 

[No1]

Why did you change the thread title again?

What happened to PMing me? I didn't change the thread title, we had 5 threads saying the same thing and they all got merged, the thread title at the top encompasses all of them as opposed to yours and the others which only spoke about one subject. If you notice your thread title is still on the original post. PM me in the future please.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

one day your grandchildren are gonna ask you what was obama like? and your bytch ass will be saying "i was on this thing called a message board dissing his ass" and your grandchildren will be embarrassed for you

Close this damn thread

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

*peeks head in door*

*looks around*



*goes back to making camel-bashing troll posts in the booth*

 

[No1]

*peeks head in door*

*looks around*



*goes back to making camel-bashing troll posts in the booth*

BTW, why you lying about those Jay bars. I searched on twitter for them and couldn't find them...I was about to take him out of my top 5 for 24 hours like when that rumor of the hyphenated last name came up

 

[FreshABM]

dont know if this one is posted yet, but here it goes:

Dr. Boyce: President Obama Lacks the Moral Authority to Give His Lopsided Speech at Morehouse | Black Blue Dog

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

This week, President Barack Obama gave the commencement address to the young men at Morehouse College. I was happy to see the president speak to these men, for I’m sure they were inspired by his presence. The achievements of Barack Obama are nothing short of legendary and inspirational, he deserves to be recognized as such. Morehouse College President John Wilson should also be commended for his extraordinary leadership. Dr. Wilson was gracious enough to join the presidents of Spelman and Clark in co-signing the open letter on mass incarceration written by myself and Russell Simmons.

The president’s message consisted of the same themes that I recall hearing from my grandmother: You have to work twice as hard to get half as much if you are black in America, and racism is no excuse for you to give up. I agree with this message, and I share similar messages every single day of my life.

The president’s decision to speak in ways that he knew would resonate with Morehouse men and their older black parents was an intelligent political move, without question. The president’s speeches tend to be more conservative when he speaks to African Americans (I even noticed his use of the word “Lordy” early in the speech), and this is a good fit, since black people are also very conservative. The truth is that many African Americans would be Republicans if the party would just stop being so blatantly racist.

Another thing about black people is that many of us suffer from the low self-esteem that tends to afflict oppressed individuals. We’re not much different from the housewife who believes her husband wouldn’t have had to beat her if she had not burned the cookies. When her husband is out with other women, she is simply thankful that he took the time to pay the rent. She’s ecstatic about any form of acknowledgement from her husband whatsoever, and when he berates her, she knows that she deserves it. To some extent, she comes to embrace her oppression as the natural order of things, and the tranquility of her marriage is built upon the idea that his views, needs and status are superior to her own.

When President Obama graces us with his presence, we are simply honored that he took the time to even acknowledge us. Any symbolic gesture, no matter how scant and meaningless, becomes precious to us, because for some, there is no greater achievement that any black man could aspire to than to get validation from white people. Had President Obama passed on the presidency and taken a position at an all-black school and educated thousands of black children, we would have considered it to be a wasted opportunity. Why would such an important man spend his time with us? The political harmony between black America and the Obama Administration is a carefully-designed relationship in which our job is to shut up and cheer for anything the administration chooses to do with our votes.

Part of this asymmetric partnership with the Obama Administration is that we are actually HAPPY when the president berates us. We like being told that we don’t try hard enough and that the reason so many of us struggle is because we have come to embrace an inferior set of habits and cultural norms. We ENJOY the abuse, because deep down, many of us have bought into the myth of white superiority as much as white people themselves.

So, when Obama comes to Morehouse and says, “Stop using racism as an excuse and start taking more responsibility,” we LOVE it. We also nod our heads in agreement because for the educated elite, Obama isn’t talking about us. He’s talking about “them.” You know, those n*ggaz who keep getting sent to prison, who can’t get jobs, and who are killing each other in the street. They deserve their plight because they don’t work as hard as the rest of us, at least that’s the logic. It’s easy to grab onto the simple answers: Black men love their kids less than white men do, black women are only capable of raising incompetent children who eat Popeye’s chicken for breakfast, and black people are slightly less human than whites, thus prone to more criminal activity.

But here’s the issue. Telling black Americans to stop using racism as an excuse allows President Obama to create a set of excuses for his own significant, even embarrassing, lack of action to help alleviate the clearly documented, undeniable, legislatively-enforced poison of racial inequality that continues to impact our society. As he tells the Morehouse men to take more responsibility for their own lives, the mirror of personal responsibility should also be turned on the most powerful black man in the history of the world to use his massive platform to help confront systematic racism that affects us all.

The “Super Negro Theory” is a commonly-held belief that if all 40 million black people would simply make straight As, never ever break the law in a minor way, work 80 hours a week and make no mistakes, could overcome any form of racial oppression. “If Colin Powell can rise out of the projects and become head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then you should be able to do the same,” said the successful black man to a class of 2,000 high school kids.

The point here is that black people are the only group of people who are severely punished for being average. If a young black male grows up in a neighborhood where he might get shot everyday on the way to school, the educational system is dilapidated, he is being racially-profiled on every corner and there’s no food in the house, we expect him to be able to rise to extraordinary levels of focus and capability to overcome all of this. Sure, a few kids can be born and raised in the violent chaos of South Central LA and go to Harvard, but statistical theory clearly says that a large percentage of these kids are going to end up dead or in jail. The point is that the “Super Negro” theory may apply to that rare kid who can leap systematic oppression in a single bound, but you can’t expect that same degree of personal power and focus to apply to 40 million people. Unfortunately, some of our kids are going to be average, which for black people, is analogous to being pathetic, lazy, ignorant, trifling and worthless, thus giving white people an excuse to mistreat you and Obama an excuse to ignore you.

The best way to confront racism in America is through POLICY. I can’t tell you how many hard-working, law abiding black doctors, lawyers and professors I meet who are discriminated against in the workplace. Most studies show that when black kids make the same mistakes as white kids, they are more severely punished both in the schools and the courts. There are a pile of studies which show that kids who are traumatized by living in violent neighborhoods with horrible schools and no jobs are far more at risk than those who do not. So, why do we allow any politician to speak as if these issues don’t affect our outcomes?

Similar to the man who tells his wife that she needs to lose a few pounds, she also has the right to ask her husband why he himself is obese. When he sleeps with other women, she can use that as her explanation for why another man was in her husband’s bed while he was at work. The point here is that every single mandate that President Obama is putting on the men at Morehouse College (and those who could not be there) to “man up” and stop making excuses must be applied to a president who has continuously used Republican racism as his excuse for contributing almost nothing to fight the curse of black unemployment, mass incarceration, educational inequality, workplace racism and all the other social ills that we face every single day of the week.

Here’s another memo for the president: You’re not just half black, you’re also half white. So, as you speak to African Americans and tell them to stop using racism as their excuse for a lack of achievement, I encourage you to give similar speeches to your white “brothers and sisters,” telling them the same things. The fact is that the Obama White House has a much more sympathetic ear when whites complain about 7 percent unemployment than it does when black Americans complain about 14% unemployment. This is patently and undeniably unfair, and even the president knows it.

Hence, this lopsided approach to racial inequality does not give Barack Obama the moral authority to come into a room full of black people and talk about what’s wrong with us. Chris Rock, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan or Harry Belafonte, could make these very same statements and have credibility because they are not afraid to speak the same way to whites. My mother could talk about me like a dog growing up because I knew that after the criticism was over, my mother would go into the world and fight others who sought to do me harm. Black men must openly question whether or not their president is truly willing to go to bat for them as quickly as he’s willing to go out and fight for the gay community. Please don’t get angry with me for stating the facts, we must openly confront the nonsense.

This, folks is racism 101. I’m not sure if the Morehouse Men applauded the message or not, but they also hosted the rapper “2 Chainz,” who had them all reciting the chorus “All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe.” So, needless to say, these poor brothers are getting a series of mixed messages, but the consistent message is that if a black man has enough power, then any rhetoric, no matter how distorted, is reshaped so that it seems to make sense. But this speech doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

Great post I will be borrowing this..I'ma Obama supporter but I do see error in the speech....He's the President tho so I understand that he can't just put it all out there......