Naiveté of Tavis Smiley & Cornel West’s Attacks On Obama A Danger To Poor & Blacks

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19. If you were referencing the Final Call, I'd believe you.

Since instead you are referring to West or Smiley, I know you are barking up the wrong tree in right wing paranoia. Did you just throw in the Jews part to really stir shit up around here?

“I doubt very highly, that Barack Obama is concerned with any Africans in this country who do not represent the One Percent. One of the first moves that he made as president was when (Henry Louis) Skip Gates had the problem with the White police officer in Boston and was arrested for breaking into his own home, Barack Obama had a beer summit. He took the officer and Skip Gates and along with Vice President (Joe) Biden and had a beer summit,” observed Kalonji Changa, founder of the Atlanta-based Feed The People Movement and author of “How to Build a Peoples Army.”

“Not one time has our first Black president publicly uttered the name of Troy Davis. He did make mention of the Trayvon Martin case, but that was in passing. We feel that Barack Obama is as good for Black people in America as Ronald Reagan was,” said the outspoken activist. Troy Davis was a Black inmate executed despite concerns about his innocence and Trayvon Martin was a Black teen shot to death by a watch captain in Sanford, Fla.

A September Census report revealed harsh facts about Black conditions today: Blacks are 33 percent of the nation’s low income population and 15 percent (roughly 10 million people) of the nation’s unemployed. Black joblessness is nearly seven percentage points higher than the national average of 8.3. Blacks are one-third of America’s poor and Black children under age five represent 43 percent of nation’s impoverished children. A little over one million Black children live in poverty, with nearly one in four classified as “extremely poor.”

link:http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_9227.shtml|