Posted on 09/25/2011 5:50:34 AM PDT by tobyhill
In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.
Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.
"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side.
"I need your help," Obama said.
The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he's to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday's speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.
He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," he said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way."
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Raise the minimum wage even more and see what happens!
Get out there and fight has to meanings and they know the one that will be used in the streets. He fools no one! It is a call to arms
“y’all”? Phony, yankee prick.
It's not reversing, it's getting worse. Stupid AP.
"Opportunity" for jobs (government crumbs) on the Obama/government plantation.
Black folks need new leaders and new role models and there are some excellent ones out there..Herman Cain, Alan West, Thomas Sowell, etc., etc.
Racist.
As phony as Hillary! and her trying to sing that southern black song “I ain’t no ways taaaarrrd.”
Politicians disgust me. Those that are fooled by phonies disgust me even more.
We have had attack whitie for years...google Iowa State fair, St Louis...
HELL...just go here: www.violentflashmobs.com
and we had the Black Pathers prove they have permission...to attack whites if they wish...for in BRA (black run America) we have Holder JUST-Us...
Obama is just doing what comes naturally to a community organizer who no longer has ACORN...which is stirring shit and hatred among the feral ghetto types...he CERTAINLY isn’t speaking to the dreaded “Uncle Toms”...defined as the blacks that REJECT Obama and the culture of the feral ghetto blacks
He’s trying to speak like the black (which he isn’t), Southerner (not even sure he’s a Yankee—more like Indonesian) that he certainly isn’t.
Just an all around, good time LIAR.
I’d say stop complaining and get a job but Obama sure took care of that option.
Didn’t they try this on ‘Day of Rage’?
All excellent role models, for whites and blacks alike.
Didn’t MLK say we should judge a person by the character not the color of the skin??? To me Obama has no character..
An utterly perverse and anti-intellectual attitude designed to work people up so they believe there are these mythical Jobs "Out There" that belong to them, and someone is keeping them from getting those jobs.
I know personal experience doesn't count for much when discussing such matters, but my God, I started working before I was ten fer pete's sake. No connections, no college education, and I'm 45 now and I've gone out and GOTTEN every job, as have all of my non-caucasian and caucasian friends. (A notable exception being the liberal friend of my high school years who used connections.)
It's just a completely alien concept to me.
Michele is livin’ in high cotton.
craven and depraved
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