"Do you boys like gladiator movies?"
Posted on 03/06/2014 2:17:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In one of the most significant steps of its kind taken by any Administration, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan which he hopes will lift young minority men out of a persistent cycle of despair and hopelessness into productive lives.
Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative will be in the hands of a top-level task force, which the president has appointed “to develop a coordinated federal effort to improve significantly the expected life outcomes for boys and young men of color,” he wrote in a memo outlining his plan.
The program will cover not only young African-American men but also Hispanics and Native Americans and the “My Brother’s Keeper Task Force” has been directed to report on its progress regularly over the next year....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfltimes.com ...
Uncle Scam has been giving taxpayers handouts and preferential treatment to minority males for fifty years. Minority males have cost us Trillions in direct and indirect costs without any appreciable improvement or positive effect. At what point do we declare its a lost cause?
Do like Choom as much as I do?
LOL what’s with the football shoulder pads?
From the article:
“Nothing is given to you,” he said. “The world is tough out there. There’s a lot of competition for jobs and college positions and everybody has to work hard. But I know you guys can succeed.”
Doesn’t sound to me like his desire is to keep young males on the “plantation”.
So you believe he’s serious about what he said there? Oh, my Lord, you can’t be that naïve, can you?
Lip service... he got everything he has for just showing up, and he acts like that’s too demanding half of the time.
Oh, I just saw your “born-on-date” here. Nevermind. BTW, do you guys still get free Pizza Uno on Fridays? What kind of latte do they serve in the employee lounge? Is it sustainably and ethically sourced?
He talks the talk but he never walks the walk.
Now if he and Michelle were to adopt one of these underprivileged lads and send him to the Sidwell School, Obama might be more credible.
Ha! My born date is 1946. I could be as old or older than you. I drink my coffee(lots of it) black.
Yeah, you're older than me. That's nice.
Good for you!
Affirmative action plain and simple, poor whites, asians, indians, koreans, and especially women need not apply
Do these Einsteins realize that the first person who used the phrase, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” had murdered his brother?
minorities only means blacks (and sometimes Hispanics) to liberals/media
Maybe that IS what they’re aiming at. That’s certainly what’s happening in the inner city right now, isn’t it?
Hardly.
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