Jesse Jackson says Obama failed the black community:

[Booker T Garvey]

Civil rights leader says POTUS should have done more to address racial injustice

Gerren Keith Gaynor

POSTED: 08/07/2015 09:30 AM EDT
Filed Under News and Views, Centric News, President Barack Obama, Black Unemployment, Jesse Jackson Sr., Race

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took aim at PresidentBarack Obama for his lack of action in addressing the economic disparities that plague Black Americans.

The revered civil rights activist said that as the nation's first Black president, Obama has failed the Black community and should have done more to deal with the disproportionate number of African Americans who are unemployed.

"The unfinished business is this issue of targeting racial justice,” Jackson told International Business Times.

“He has the view that racial injustice is something that requires a vote [in Congress]. Blacks are without a targeted plan. Without one, we’ll never have an even playing field.”

HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA TURNED HIS BACK ON HBCUS?

Despite the Black unemployment rate dipping below 10 percent for the first time in seven years, it continues to be nearly double the national unemployment at 9.5 percent in June, versus 4.6 percent for white Americans.

Jackson said the president has experienced an unfair amount of critcism, mostly racially motivated, from conservatives, however, he argued it should not have prevented him from directing his Cabinet to do more without the support of Congress.


“It’s time not for a national police summit in places like Baltimore, but for an urban reconstruction summit, where all the agencies are used in that reconstruction,” Jackson said.

“There is an opportunity to pull together government agencies -- [housing, education, transportation departments] -- and make something work."


Do you agree with Jackson's criticsm of President Obama? Sound off in the comments section below.

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[yardman]

the irony.

 

[SwagmundFreud]

pot, meet kettle

 

[Easy-E]

“He has the view that racial injustice is something that requires a vote [in Congress]. Blacks are without a targeted plan. Without one, we’ll never have an even playing field.”

Barack barely been prez for 8 years. Jesse been "fighting" since King was alive. Why is it exactly his fault we "don't have a plan"?

 

[The G.O.D II]

I cannot think of a single Jesse Jackson accomplishment outside freeing some cacs over in the balkans in the 90s

 

[Milk N Cookies]

See this is why I never liked him after his having ass said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off. Imma need him to sit his bytch ass down & shut the fukk up & make sure his son don't fukk around and get caught doing some more white collar crimes

 

[Piff Perkins]

“It’s time not for a national police summit in places like Baltimore, but for an urban reconstruction summit, where all the agencies are used in that reconstruction,” Jackson said.

“There is an opportunity to pull together government agencies -- [housing, education, transportation departments] -- and make something work."

When has a summit or commission ever fixed anything. Police should be forced to comply with new standards - which means state legislatures need to take this issue to the next level. Body cams, a civilian board that reviews lethal force usage, fed funds being dependent on compliance with certain standards, etc. And people need to completely take over the election process for sheriffs and prosecutors. Elect people who have their constituents in mind, not the police department or doing favors in order to become a judge in 20 years.

 

[JahFocus CS]

He's right but Jackson has also "failed" with his approach.

 

[ORDER_66]

A failure, calling someone else a failure.....

 

[Truth200]

Obama > Jesse

 

[KOohbt]

Random Brehs on the coli > Jesse

 

[havoc]

Damn, Jesse, how come you didn't summon the Black Caucus to write a bill that can pass through Congress that will commence urban reconstruction ?

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Random Brehs on the coli > Jesse

damn

 

[avon barksdale]

fucc ass Jessie remember this after talking bout his nuts

but like the great king said

Stop chasin' them hoes, Jesse!



6:30 mark

 

[feelosofer]

Jesse should know better than this, he should have taken this time and energy and helped to create a formal agenda and action plan for African-Americans in the U.S. this was not Obama's job, then he has the audacity to say

“He has the view that racial injustice is something that requires a vote [in Congress]. Blacks are without a targeted plan. Without one, we’ll never have an even playing field.”

When this is the way the game is played and he knows this better than most.

If Obama failed the Black community, Jesse left it for dead and allowed its corpse to bloat and rot.