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There have been growing rumblings among black liberals and pundits recently weeks that their first president has been inattentive to the community that supported him by more than 90 per cent.Although the president’s polling numbers remain strong among the group, it is unlikely to continue with black people suffering disproportionately to others in the recession. Danny Glover, the activist film actor, told The Daily Beast website recently: “I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don’t see anything different.†John Conyers, the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee, told a newspaper that Mr Obama “was getting bad advice from clownsâ€, criticised him for the poor handling of the closure of Guantánamo Bay and for “bowing down†to the “nutty Right-wing†over health care reform.Mr Obama hit back yesterday saying that: “This notion, somehow, that because there wasn’t a transformation overnight that we’ve been neglectful is just not accurate,â€The Congressional Black Caucus, of which Mr Obama was part as a senator, has had a long-simmering feud with the White House. The 43-member group recently boycotted a procedural vote on financial regulatory reform as a warning that its support could not be counted on.Barbara Waters, a representative from Los Angeles, said: “We can no longer choose not to speak about African Americans or the working class. I think that it is important for us to educate those people around [Obama].â€Tavis Smiley, a TV and radio broadcaster, criticised the White House for “incrementalism†in its reform efforts, citing Martin Luther King’s warning against the “tranquillising drug of gradualismâ€.The president’s performance was all about “jobs, jobs, jobs†he said. “It’s especially about jobs in black America, where we are triple the national average, in some places quadruple the national average of unemployment.â€In a radio interview, the president stressed that there were limits to what he could do for any class of people. ...
They ought to stop whining and just be thankful he isn't doing anything "For" them the way he is doing things "For" the rest of us.
No shit... I hear "we're from the government and we're here to help", these days, and I drop to the floor, huddled fetal position, making sure to leave my poor wallet where they can get to it without "helping" me any more than they have to.
It's going to be interesting when those 90% realize that he's not going to help them, never had any intentions of helping them, and really could care less - meaning he's not losing any sleep over it. Cause he's up in the "Big House" now... (sorry I just couldn't help myself)
Movin' on upTo da East Side,Finally got a piece of da pie!
off topic, but did anyone else notice they identified conyers as the "Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee"? is the press going to have a knee-jerk reaction and label someone as Republican simply for criticizing 0bama?
You can`t "help" anyone,no matter what race or color they are when they have no respect for or pride in themselves or their community.
Spot friggen on.What has the (so-called, as I don't believe in it) "black community" done to lift themselves up?
Gee. Who came into power in Congress at the beginning of 2007. Who has been in the WH since January 2009. These cold, hard facts won't change some people's minds though. They'll still vote for the same losers next election cycle. And they'll still be unemployed and beholden to the welfare state.
