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COMMENTARY: The President’s Black Male Initiative Is Hard At Work To Help Young Men of Color
Black America Web ^ | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Broderick D. Johnson, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary

Posted on 05/16/2014 5:00:09 PM PDT by kristinn

On February 27 of this year, President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative (MBK). MBK stands for the core principle that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should have the opportunity to succeed, and that your ability to get ahead should be determined by your hard work, ambition, and goals – not by the circumstances of your birth.

Yet boys and young men of color consistently face some of the most severe challenges to success. We need make sure we’re giving all Americans the chance and opportunity to get a quality education, grow up in a safe neighborhood, and receive positive reinforcement from their community to succeed. Making sure that all our youth have opportunities to reach their full potential is what MBK is all about.

The President has declared 2014 a year of action – and MBK is an example of how he is using his convening power and the information and expertise that reside within the federal government to help communities in need. As Chair of the MBK Federal Interagency Task Force (Task Force), I’ve been working with federal agencies across the government as part of a 90-day process to take inventory of what the federal government is doing and to identify what works.

Throughout this process, the Task Force has been listening to and engaging communities and advocates to learn from them. There’s much to learn from work already being done across the country in the public and private sector. We’ve been listening – in-person and through webinars – to hear from leading experts, policymakers, law enforcement, and others on what should be fixed and what’s already working. Concurrently, there is a private sector effort underway as well.

(Excerpt) Read more at blackamericaweb.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mybrotherskeeper; obama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It makes them FEEL good. It accomplishes nothing.


21 posted on 05/16/2014 5:40:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DJ MacWoW

;^)


22 posted on 05/16/2014 5:56:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: kristinn

What a joke, it’s young black men who should be “hard at work”, nothing would help them more. A stupid government program isn’t going to do it for them.


23 posted on 05/16/2014 5:58:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: kristinn

Everything tried since LBJ has failed!!! More of the same will still fail. This is no more than a shake down blame whitey event.


24 posted on 05/16/2014 6:07:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“Make sure you import thousands of low-wage foreigners so that Blacks will have jobs, too.”

The whole idea of importing all those who will “do the jobs Americans won’t do” is because we pay our low skilled workers not to work. Cut the EBT and see who ‘can’t do the job’.


25 posted on 05/16/2014 6:08:07 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: kristinn

ummmmm.... what color ?


26 posted on 05/16/2014 6:18:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: kristinn

So what if you are member of a race that doesn’t need special help and attention.

Does that make a person racist?


27 posted on 05/16/2014 6:25:29 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: All

28 posted on 05/16/2014 6:58:34 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: kristinn
If you want to help them, give them married heterosexuals for parents.

Anything else is a waste of everybody's time.

29 posted on 05/16/2014 7:10:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: onedoug

“I Like My Guns Like Obongo Likes His Voters;UnDocumented”!Oh,(and by the way)”If You Like Your Doctor You Can Keep Your Doctor,Period”!!!!!!!!!!!!!


30 posted on 05/16/2014 7:15:07 PM PDT by bandleader
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To: kristinn

Blackmail. What the Barry administration is doing to congress.


31 posted on 05/16/2014 8:05:05 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Why is Jon Corzine a free man?)
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To: kristinn

If there were a White Male Initiative, the press would be screaming.


32 posted on 05/16/2014 8:32:17 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: kristinn

Would MLK2 consider BHO to be a Racist for moving forward with MBK in WDC and the other 57 States in the USA?


33 posted on 05/16/2014 8:46:20 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: kristinn
Hey, I have color! How come nobody came to help me out. Not fair!!

Why can't they see that I'm just a brotha' from 'notha motha'

34 posted on 05/16/2014 10:20:21 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: kristinn

Helping out just like his “you didn’t build that” program. Stuffing the advantages to some and stimulate with money hey... we’ll see.
Meanwhile macdonulds is adjusting staff. ...with an eye towards the ‘dimographics’ of their customer base?


35 posted on 05/17/2014 3:26:05 AM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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To: Recompennation

We didn’t need this article to tell us odumbo (with Holder’s support) are stacking the deck for his “sons”.


36 posted on 05/17/2014 4:27:23 AM PDT by DaveA37
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