Obama Says He'll Continue To Work On Racial Equality After He Leaves Office Commenters Ask When h

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Obama Says He'll Continue To Work On Racial Equality After He Leaves Office . Commenters Ask When he started

May 4 (Reuters) - Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said obstacles facing minority men from birth put them in a position of having "the odds stacked against them."Obama said black and Latino men feel that disadvantage, and he credited their sense of frustration about their lives and opportunities for the intensity of recent protests around the country.

He spoke at Lehman College in the Bronx to announce the launch of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit organization that is a spinoff of a White House initiative to increase opportunities for young minority men.

"That sense of unfairness, powerlessness, people not hearing their voices, that's helped fuel some of the protests that we've seen in places like Baltimore, Ferguson and right here in New York," Obama said, referring to demonstrations that followed the deaths of unarmed black men after interactions with police.

Obama said he would continue to work on the issue after his presidency, a possible foreshadowing of his future involvement with My Brother's Keeper Alliance.

"We see ourselves in these young men," Obama said of himself and the leaders of My Brother's Keeper Alliance.

The nonprofit, to be headed by Joe Echevarria, former chief executive of consultancy Deloitte, will develop guidance for companies to increase access to jobs for racial minorities.

Companies including American Express Co, Pepsi Co and News Corp have committed a combined total of $80 million in money and in-kind donations to My Brother's Keeper Alliance.

Rules around fundraising for My Brother's Keeper Alliance while Obama is still in office are likely to be scrutinized. Questions have been raised about the influence donors to the Clinton Foundation wielded while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said My Brother's Keeper Alliance will be responsible for determining its own fundraising policies. (Additional reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Sandra Maler and Eric Walsh

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[HopeKillCure]

CHUUUUUUUUUURCH!




(when did he start)

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Stop reading after I saw "Obama said black and Latino men feel that disadvantage."

Latinos men have less problems than black men; they also have their own neighborhoods with thier own stores and there own politicians. Plus majority of lations side with whites when it comes down to choosing a side when it's black vs. white.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

Stop reading after I saw "Obama said black and Latino men feel that disadvantage."

Latinos men have less problems than black men; they also have their own neighborhoods with thier own stores and there own politicians. Plus majority of lations side with whites when it comes down to choosing a side when it's black vs. white.

DO YOU THINK THAT LATINOS HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS WE DO?

 

[42 Monks]

Cool.

 

[Neil Tyson]

i'm not latino so i don't know what problems they are facing.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

DO YOU THINK THAT LATINOS HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS WE DO?

That sounds like a loaded question; you have to specify.

 

[TRY GOD]

Work on something after you lose the position of being the most powerful man in the world, brehs.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

That sounds like a loaded question; you have to specify.

NOT LOADED. DO WE HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS IN AMERICA AS LATINOS?

 

[Red Shield]

Oh please. This dude is gonna disappear out of the news, once he is out of office. He ain't gonna do shyt but go play golf.

 

[KOohbt]

DO YOU THINK THAT LATINOS HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS WE DO?

Nope

 

[Apollo Creed]

These are two Latino men, celeb status aside, do they face the same social issues??

I hate when they do this stuff, Latino isn't a damn race, there are White Latinos like George Zimmerman who dont go through what Black men do

 

[Bunchy Carter]

NOT LOADED. DO WE HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS IN AMERICA AS LATINOS?

First you have to change your question "Do latinos have the same problems as black?" Because blacks are the ones that laid that foundation for lations to cry out discrimation without being stomped to death and hung.

But to answer your loaded question; my answer is no latinos do not have the same problems as blacks. As a latino in some states you can be knowned as an illegal and still stay in this country, you can even recieve a driving license. You can even commit crimes and you still can fight deportation. Can a black haitian do such things; no.

How is it that latinos can come to the united states from another country where they were considered to be living in a poverty state and come to the United States and recieve a grant to open up a business. You have no social, no credit history, your not a united states citizen; but you can secure a business loan. But you have black people with 20% down payment and 750 credit score and they can not get a loan. Then you have the job market; which is primarily own by whites, it is what it is. But to weed out the blacks and not to be racist by law, what do they put down, we need spanish speaking, why do you need spanish speaking when half of your patrons are black and white.

Also name a city which is primarily all black and has it's own black business, it's own black politicials and have signs with faces that represent their own people. Latinos do.

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

First you have to change your question "Do latinos have the same problems as black?" Because blacks are the ones that laid that foundation for lations to cry out discrimation without being stomped to death and hung.

But to answer your loaded question; my answer is no latinos do not have the same problems as blacks. As a latino in some states you can be knowned as an illegal and still stay in this country, you can even recieve a driving license. You can even commit crimes and you still can fight deportation. Can a black haitian do such things; no.

How is it that latinos can come to the united states from another country where they were considered to be living in a poverty state and come to the United States and recieve a grant to open up a business. You have no social, no credit history, your not a united states citizen; but you can secure a business loan. But you have black people with 20% down payment and 750 credit score and they can not get a loan. Then you have the job market; which is primarily own by whites, it is what it is. But to weed out the blacks and not to be racist by law, what do they put down, we need spanish speaking, why do you need spanish speaking when half of your patrons are black and white.

Also name a city which is primarily all black and has it's own black business, it's own black politicials and have signs with faces that represent their own people. Latinos do.

/thread

 

[NSSVO]

Work on something after you lose the position of being the most powerful man in the world, brehs.

That's cheap. He can't fukking tailor to like 12 percent of the country right now. See how these stupid people are acting now? Things take time man.