2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Naiveté of Tavis Smiley & Cornel West’s Attacks On Obama A Danger To Poor & Blacks [View all]satxdem
(131 posts)No I didn't throw that in to stir things up. He(Cornell West) actually said those things about the president. You can throw all those census numbers to me if you want, I have been black for a while now, my whole family is even black. Kinda know those things first hand. What we in the black community also know is our unemployment has always been double the national rate. See, statistics show that black people get most of our jobs working for the government so if the government is bleeding jobs clearly we will have high unemployment. You can't force private companies to higher us, so we depend on government jobs. We know we need pell grants and education funding, because the only way to truly get out of poverty is through higher learning. We need healthcare. We need job training. We aren't some alien species that need some Barack Obama Black Agenda Bill. I Don't need him to target an agenda for my family, just need the basics that every one else would need. Try to calm down with the attacks, you don't know me. Never gave a tv rating or article view to right wing paranoia.