NAACP president says black people worse off under Obama

[Binary]

Yeah that's why they're so upset about the ban of soda in NYC

What are your priorities, NAACP?

 

[marcuz]

obligatory "he's not the president of the black people" post

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Yeah that's why they're so upset about the ban of soda in NYC

What are your priorities, NAACP?

I wondered when this was gonna show up.....

 

[valet]

Until Blacks becoming a movement again likes the gay movement, Black people are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. You didn't hear anything in the Prez. debates about the Black community. Like you did the Latino. I heard gay supremacists write 100's of letters to congress, people in power. Though I don't agree with the Gay Supremacist movement that's to be admired.

 

[Constantine]

I believe it was the British Prime Minister Disareli who said there are lies, damn lies, and staticics. Statiscally, we are worse off since Obama came into office. All demographics are. There was also a major recession, one of the greatest since the Depression. While there is a correlation between Obama assuming office during the height of the recession, any intelligent person would be a idiot to assume there is a casual relationship between the two.

 

[kermit da hustla]

Until Blacks becoming a movement again likes the gay movement, Black people are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. You didn't hear anything in the Prez. debates about the Black community. Like you did the Latino. I heard gay supremacists write 100's of letters to congress, people in power. Though I don't agree with the Gay Supremacist movement that's to be admired.

fukk becoming a movement. The more black people become American rather than BLACK, the better off we are. If we aren't past trying to scream for attention and relevancy, we've failed as a community. I'm tired of these whiny ass babies like cornel west and the NAACP. They make us look pathetic.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

All unemployment is still a little worse than when Obama took office. All unemployment peaked in 2011 and is coming down now. I dont see what this has to do specifically with black people.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Actually, the point he was trying to make is pretty much moot since many 'Black' people were under the impression that they didn't have to try as hard to find employment and/or improve their economic status under a 'Black' President. Like, because he was 'one of us' he would just give us stuff because he understood us and wouldn't expect us to, you know, actually work for it.​

I have heard this before and I can't believe that a pluralty of black folks were running around the day after Obama's first Inauguration quitting their jobs, stopping payment on their bills and waiting by the mailbox for their "Obama checks" to come. Sure there were some dumbasses like that chick at the 08 Dem convention talking about Obama going to pay for her house and shyt but I refuse to accept that was the majority thought process.

it certainly can't be a result of how white america responded to a black president.

nope.

You can't beat The Man, Undercover Brother!

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I have heard this before and I can't believe that a pluralty of black folks were running around the day after Obama's first Inauguration quitting their jobs, stopping payment on their bills and waiting by the mailbox for their "Obama checks" to come. Sure there were some dumbasses like that chick at the 08 Dem convention talking about Obama going to pay for her house and shyt but I refuse to accept that was the majority thought process.

That's exactly what I experienced, though, while working at a Federally-Funded Community Help organization up until October 2010. Sure, it's anecdotal, but I can almost guarantee anyone employed by Municipal/State/Federal Gov't. agencies that dealt with low/fixed-income clients will tell you something similar.
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[Serious]

NAACP has been the greatest fighter for real issues affecting black people in modern times. They don't get stuck on frivolous issues like some black elite organizations do. They never stand on the wrong side of any issue and they are basically in tuned with dealing with the real problems facing urban black youth.

Obama should give a fck what they think. So should black Americans.

go read a book....

 

[Jello Biafra]

That's exactly what I experienced, though, while working at a Federally-Funded Community Help organization up until October 2010. Sure, it's anecdotal, but I can almost guarantee anyone employed by Municipal/State/Federal Gov't. agencies that dealt with low/fixed-income clients will tell you something similar.
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That's crazy.

Back to the subject at hand though; I think a lot of people are focusing too much on the statement Jealous made but my focus is more on wehther or not the NAACP and the other groups in their coalition are going to actually push the president on the inititatives they claim to want or whether they are gong to continue to have a hands off approach to dealing with Obama.

 

[MBwithadream]

Word.

True.

 

[feelosofer]

Maybe instead of making these half baked statements, they should be working on a Black Agenda. I'm going to be pushing this issue on and off the internet, I think we shouldn't squander this opportunity.

 

[///Vega+++]

This is an incredibly misleading title. We are worse off compared to 4 years ago and compared to the US economy overall. But AAs have always trailed the rest of the nation in employment and prospects. That's not being worst off, that's being consistent. I'm more interested in the agenda he is going to propose.

this guy

 

[CASHAPP]

go read a book....

Go learn what sarcasm is.