Is Obama telling us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps?

[Booker T Garvey]

here's an indisputable fact: the gay and latino communities have prospered more than ever in the past 7 years

the black community is doing the worst it has in decades, are we not showing enough initiative? are we not adequately or clearly stating what it is we want collectively as a whole?

what do you all say?

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

i wanna know what you get your info from

 

[Truth200]

 

[Booker T Garvey]

hold up bruh. I'm not anti-Obama i'm just asking a question about a specific group, not his presidency overall.

relax fam put the guns away.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

i wanna know what you get your info from

i'm not really sure what you mean with this question, all of this has been in the news for years now, you don't even have to read the articles just skim the headlines...

you mean to tell me you have no idea what's going on with gay marriage, and the immigration reform (if it passes)

obama has caught hell for deporting a lot of illegals, but they are overwhelmingly in support of immigration reform. this is huge for them.

black peoples unemployment, poverty, and the wealth gap is worse than it has been in decades.

all of these things can be researched and looked up in a matter of second bruh...please don't try and spin this into an anti-obama situation, i'm literally just asking questions based on observations of just life man..

 

[L0Qutus]

• Over 80% of the Bush Tax cuts made permanent
• Tried to leave troops in Iraq but was kicked out by Nouri al-Maliki
• Started illegal war in Libya which caused a failed state and breeding ground for ISIS
• Escalated the surveillance state (until he was busted by Snowden)
• Claimed the right to execute US Citizens overseas without a trial or due process
• Implemented Romney healthcare plan from the Heritage foundation (a conservative think tank)
• Expanded use of flying death robots (drones)
• No prosecution of Wall Street executives who crashed the economy
• Lied about renegotiating NAFTA and is trying to bully Democrats into larger trade agreement called the TPP
• Attempted to cut Social Security by proposing cuts to cost of living increases (chained CPI)
• Illegal executive orders to grant legal status to illegal immigrants, he now fights for gay rights after initially lying about support for "traditional marriage" (only after gay campaign bundlers threat to stop fundraising) and provided free birth control for women while lecturing MOREHOUSE men during their graduation ceremony on "responsibility" and "excuses."

AND

• 95% of economic recovery has gone to wealthiest 1%

This man told you he was a Republican

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

i'm not really sure what you mean with this question, all of this has been in the news for years now, you don't even have to read the articles just skim the headlines...

you mean to tell me you have no idea what's going on with gay marriage, and the immigration reform (if it passes)

obama has caught hell for deporting a lot of illegals, but they are overwhelmingly in support of immigration reform. this is huge for them.

black peoples unemployment, poverty, and the wealth gap is worse than it has been in decades.

all of these things can be researched and looked up in a matter of second bruh...please don't try and spin this into an anti-obama situation, i'm literally just asking questions based on observations of just life man..

well i'm looking at headlines and it says latinos make the least average money, and black on black crime, and incarceration are down, while businesses and income is up. not saying shyt is perfect but it aint matching up with your post

 

[Booker T Garvey]

well i'm looking at headlines and it says latinos make the least average money, and black on black crime, and incarceration are down, while businesses and income is up. not saying shyt is perfect but it aint matching up with your post

well latino's are going to make the least amount of money per individual because they work the lowest paying jobs, but they also outnumber african-americans too, and they're employment rates are higher than ours right now


and brother i don't know where you're getting you're data, and no this isn't Obama's fault, in fact this isn't a problem for him to solve, but where are you getting that the rates are down OVERALL? i'm asking seriously, not trying to argue.

Incarceration rate for African-Americans now six times the national average (2013)
http://rt.com/usa/incarceration-african-black-prison-606/

 

[Truth200]

• 95% of economic recovery has gone to wealthiest 1%

That's because capitalism has no moral basis and poor people are easily distracted via the entertainment industry.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Honestly Obama has nothing to do with shyt.

What I've learned from his presidency is that cacs and c00ns have shown their true colors ever since he's taken office and the cacs (joos too) with the real power/influence are taking it out on blacks as a whole.

So the only people who are going to save our future are ourselves. Can't rely on no one else. We have WAY more power and influence than we can fukkin imagine. We literally can shut down companies if we really wanted to with our spending. Put that money into more black owned shyt and truly support it and keep it up. Take control of our neighborhoods, support each other, and throw that ignorant self hating negative mentality out in the bushes where it belongs because the ones who are TRULY making money off of it aren't black and don't have to deal and live with the shyt that we do.

fukk the bootstraps...bootstrap factory aint hiring no nikkaz anyway

You can take our money but continue to disrespect us and treat us like shyt and eat off us.....okay....

It's just time to do us and say fukk everyone else. And yes, we have the means to do it if we stop crabbin' each other.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

al sharpton in 2011 talks about how he will never criticize the president no matter what, he's asked about the unemployment rates of blacks that was at the time twice the national average (and is worse now) and he says that Obama is not the president of black america - starts at 2:27 -

(i think this is the attitude pretty much all of black america has toward the president)

 

[Booker T Garvey]

would you all say "MY BROTHERS KEEPER" is good enough? (again, asking for serious discussion, not arguments) this is directly aimed at young black males in america:

http://mbk.ed.gov/

 

[L0Qutus]

al sharpton in 2011 talks about how he will never criticize the president no matter what, he's asked about the unemployment rates of blacks that was at the time twice the national average (and is worse now) and he says that Obama is not the president of black america - starts at 2:27 -

(i think this is the attitude pretty much all of black america has toward the president)

MSNBC is a joke. They got rid of Cenk and Keith Olbermann b/c they were telling the truth about how elected Dems were playing their base and replaced them with Sharpton, Joy Reid, and Melissa Harris Perry. Those three are always making excuses for Obama and are used to keep "us" in place.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

well latino's are going to make the least amount of money per individual because they work the lowest paying jobs, but they also outnumber african-americans too, and they're employment rates are higher than ours right now


and brother i don't know where you're getting you're data, and no this isn't Obama's fault, in fact this isn't a problem for him to solve, but where are you getting that the rates are down OVERALL? i'm asking seriously, not trying to argue.

Incarceration rate for African-Americans now six times the national average (2013)
http://rt.com/usa/incarceration-african-black-prison-606/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/us/incarceration-rates-for-blacks-dropped-report-shows.html?_r=0


we still get it worse, but it's still going down. and the funny thing is whites are going up. but fact is the system is still against us

 

[↓R↑LYB]

would you all say "MY BROTHERS KEEPER" is good enough? (again, asking for serious discussion, not arguments) this is directly aimed at young black males in america:

http://mbk.ed.gov/

My brothers keeper is bullshyt. None of that money is going to black people, and Obama knows it. Part of the requirements to get the money is your organization has to have offices in at least 45 states. That excludes damn near every "black" organization out there.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/pol..._blocked_by_new_my_brother_s_keeper_rule.html