Lack of jobs for blacks creates tension between black lawmakers and Obama

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

Black lawmakers are embarking on a monthlong campaign Monday to address the staggering unemployment rate among African Americans, an issue that has become a growing source of tension between members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration.

Lawmakers have met with the administration three times this year seeking support for programs that specifically address the black community, but President Obama has not backed their proposals. The caucus chairman last week slammed the deal negotiated by the administration to raise the national debt ceiling and cut government spending as a “Satan sandwich” that unfairly harms African Americans.

Now, as the CBC launches its most public and coordinated jobs campaign so far, the president is notably absent from the lineup. Instead, the White House has dispatched Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, who is white, to the event and announced that Obama will embark on his own jobs tour that will take place in the middle of the CBC’s campaign.

“We want him to know that from this day forward . . . we’ve had it,” Michigan Rep. John Conyers recently said of the president. “We want him to come out on our side and advocate, not to watch and wait.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/lack-of-jobs-for-blacks-creates-tension-between-black-lawmakers-and-obama/2011/08/05/gIQAJL520I_story.html

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Maybe Cornel West was right when he called Obama a puppet of Wall Street.

[emilyg]

1. kick

[Tejas]

2. Well, screw the other minorities...

and wtf kind of reporting is this?

"Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, who is white"

[No Elephants]

9. Every American who is out of work is not a member of a minority group.

[CreekDog]

10. they suffer the highest unemployment of any group

do you want their prospects to improve the same amount as everyone else's?

unemployment among college educated males goes down 10%
same amount for black teenagers?
and high school graduates?

is that what's fair to you? continuing unfairness at the present levels?

[Blue_Tires]

11. A name like Shaun Donovan is a candidate for the Reggie Cleveland All-Stars

maybe that's what the reporter was thinking....

[pscot]

3. I guess I can understand why some people would unrecc

this story. This is one of those inconvenient realities that are so hard to explain away.

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[mr clean]

6. What ya gonna do with your free tome when DU3 comes out?

Because DU3 won't have the "Rec"
:shrug:

[Skittles]

8. it's unrec that should go

I don't use unrec, because I am not a coward

[eilen]

5. There has been talk of that direction for the last

6 months at least on Make It Plain.

[Middle finga]

7. What is becoming more obvious by the day is that,

if you are a supporter of this president, then your priorities are at the bottom of his To-Do List. Don't worry though, he'll come give you a nice speech during the campaign season.

[Larkspur]

12. These black lawmakers who dare criticize obama should eat their morning

dose of Jonathon Chait and TNR.

How dare any Democrat criticize Der Leader Obama! :sarcasm: