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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on February 12, 2013, 11:21:30 PM
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..... causes jealousy amongst the kids.
Many African-Americans concerned about Obama’s focus on immigrant rights
No sooner did President Barack Obama and a group of senators separately outline proposals to revamp the nation’s immigration system than the phone lines on several African-American-oriented talk radio shows heated up with callers blasting the plans.
“Amnesty,” complained Frankie from Maryland recently on the nationally syndicated “Keeping it Real with Al Sharpton.”
A political payback to Hispanic voters that does little or nothing for African-Americans, reasoned Sam from Milwaukee on Wisconsin’s 1290 WMCS AM’s “Earl Ingram Show.”
“Our issues are not being highlighted and pushed, and things like gay marriage and (immigration) are being pushed to the forefront,” the caller said. “Hispanics are effectively organized. For us not to be organized and for us not to hold our leadership accountable is disheartening.”
Although the civil rights establishment, from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the Urban League and Sharpton, squarely back Obama’s desire to tackle immigration, the president’s call has reignited complaints within the African-American community that he is addressing the specific needs of almost all major voting blocs – Hispanics, women, gays – except for the African-Americans who gave him 93 percent of their vote.
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Bernard Anderson, an Obama supporter and a former assistant labor secretary during Bill Clinton’s presidency, recently told an African-American economic summit at Washington’s Howard University that African-Americans should no longer give Obama “a pass” on dealing with issues that directly impact their community.
“He is not going to run again for anything. He does not deserve a pass anymore,” Anderson said. “Let him not only find his voice but summon his courage and use his political capital to address racial inequality. He owes that to the African-American.”
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Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are quietly seething because Obama hasn’t met with the 42-member group since May 13, 2011. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., vented to the National Newspaper Publishers Association last month. He said the black caucus sent the White House the names of 61 potential candidates for positions in a second-term administration that already is coming under fire for being heavy on white males.
“Not one of that 61 was selected – not one,” Hastings told the African-American newspaper publishers at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., conference.
Obama administration officials reject assertions that the president is race-adverse. Obama has consistently said he takes a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach to governing and that his policies benefit all Americans, not just one group.
“I think comprehensive immigration reform is not about a specific community, it’s about a problem that we need to address as a whole,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last week.
But some African-Americans view Obama’s immigration drive as an overture to Hispanics who helped power his re-election in November with 71 percent of their vote.
“The amount of blacks who are impacted by this legislation is so small it’s infinitesimal,” talk show host Earl Ingram said. “Minuscule.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/11/182697/many-african-americans-concerned.html#storylink=cpy
As Tom Bogan always says, "You voted for him.... you get what you deserve."
Or something to that effect. ;)
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Hillary/Holder 2016 needs the newly legal Mexican-American vote.
Yeah, baby, just think of it....Hillary at the helm and Holder as the #2 guy. :o
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..... causes jealousy amongst the kids.
Could it be that they actually are finding out he's a lying POS?
Reality is a bitch. ;D
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Could it be that they actually are finding out he's a lying POS?
Reality is a bitch. ;D
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/31055171.jpg)
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Could it be that they actually are finding out he's a lying POS?
Reality is a bitch. ;D
Don't be a fool.
They're just pissed he isn't paying for their X Box games along with their phones.