Posted on 12/09/2009 8:23:19 PM PST by Chet 99
President Obama has been taking it on the chin lately from one of his most committed constituencies -- members of the Congressional Black Caucus who now say Obama isn't considering race enough when he makes decisions on jobs, the economy, health care and other issues.
"We can't allow race to be denied, we can't allow race to just be a part of the public discourse at this point in time," Rep. Bobby Rush, who is from the president's home state of Illinois, told Fox News on Wednesday.
"As a candidate, President Obama said in a speech on race during the Democratic primary, 'race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now," Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, chair of the CBC, said in a statement Tuesday night.
"The Congressional Black Caucus recognizes that behind virtually every economic indicator you will find gross racial disparities," she added.
Among those disparities, Lee pointed to the fact that 24 percent of blacks currently live below the poverty line and that African Americans are 55 percent more likely to be unemployed than other Americans.
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Bambi ain’t keepin it real, yo!
Its a tribe thing. 5,000 years the race has failed here on earth.
I wonder if he’s ever considered the reason why so many blacks live below the poverty line is because so many, way more of a percentage, are gangsters, felons, and never gave two craps about paying attention in school to learn something that would benefit them later in life.
The time for playing the race card is over. Blacks are the only ones who care about race. If quotas are so important and having representation of the races in proportion to society’s population, then we need 70% white football and basketball teams, right now. Any displaced black football or basketball players can audition to fill a number of hockey rosters.
Jeez, what the hell do they think acorn is all about?
race race race race race race
It’s always somebody else who’s to blame.
race race race race race race
Ditch the victim mentality - it is worn out and the rest of us are fed up.
They just can’t get over how Landrieu got $300 million.
Psst...hey CBC...he’s black...but he ‘aint black like you...haven’t you noticed that yet?
500 years from now, Rep. Bobby Rush the 14th is going to be saying the same thing, seeking favortism for the ills visited on their forefathers by “Whitey.” This is all in the past; blacks are in a preferred position these days in hiring and promotions in private industry and in public employment.
Enough is enough!
They just can’t get over how Landrieu got $300 million.
Everybody now knows that the brothas prefer blondes, even a little piggy like Mary.
Oops, there goes another approval point or two...
That’s for real. My son also. He would just light up whenever he had a blonde nurse. It was embarrassing, everyone else had to work harder to get him to cooperate.
We can only hope. 2010...make or break
This country has unraveled. The nuts are in charge.
I would kill to ask this question of them, face-to-face. It’s the exact same thing I ask a derelict when he says, “Sir, do you have a minute?”
Okay, what, Congressman, would like to TALK about regarding race? I’ll give you a caveat, it cannot involve me taking money out of my pocket and giving it to you.
Something tells me that “talk” then ends immediately.
Gentlemen and talk like this makes me want to utter words that would have gotten me in REALLY deep trouble with my late father. I just don’t care if someone calls me a racist anymore.
By all means, I think Obama should step up the race rhetoric and appoint a few more totally unqualified racist czars to made-up positions like “green jobs czar”. America needs a few more fuses lit under the powder kegs to really get this thing going.
Sounds like Obama’s check is late.
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