Posted on 05/16/2014 5:00:09 PM PDT by kristinn
On February 27 of this year, President Obama launched the My Brothers 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 were 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), Ive 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. Theres much to learn from work already being done across the country in the public and private sector. Weve been listening in-person and through webinars to hear from leading experts, policymakers, law enforcement, and others on what should be fixed and whats already working. Concurrently, there is a private sector effort underway as well.
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It makes them FEEL good. It accomplishes nothing.
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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.
Everything tried since LBJ has failed!!! More of the same will still fail. This is no more than a shake down blame whitey event.
“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’.
ummmmm.... what color ?
So what if you are member of a race that doesn’t need special help and attention.
Does that make a person racist?
Anything else is a waste of everybody's time.
“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”!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blackmail. What the Barry administration is doing to congress.
If there were a White Male Initiative, the press would be screaming.
Would MLK2 consider BHO to be a Racist for moving forward with MBK in WDC and the other 57 States in the USA?
Why can't they see that I'm just a brotha' from 'notha motha'
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?
We didn’t need this article to tell us odumbo (with Holder’s support) are stacking the deck for his “sons”.
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