<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Aww, Obama supporter points out another broken Obama promise: "I'll help jobless Blacks"<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/aww-obama-supporter-points-out-another-broken-obama-promise-ill-help-jobless-blacks/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| April 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM | Tags: black unemployment <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=black-unemployment>, pandering <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=pandering>, President Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama>, unemployment rate <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=unemployment-rate> | Categories: Political Issues <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?cat=35145>| URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5bp
Let's face it, Obama is a disappointment across all racial lines. So much for that post-racial presidency. However, I do take exception to some believing Obama should only be helping certain folk with a certain skin color. DeWayne Wickham writes, via The USA Today<http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-26-Obamas-broken-promise-to-help-blacks.htm?loc=interstitialskip> : This is not an easy column for me to write. It’s never easy to tell someone you like that he’s a disappointment. I like Barack Obama<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/Executive/Barack+Obama>. I liked him the first time we met back in 2006 when I took a small group of journalism students to Washington, D.C<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Towns,+Cities,+Counties/Washington,+DC>., for a meeting with the then-freshly minted U.S. senator. I liked Obama even more when an aide to his presidential campaign invited me to a July 2007 speech he gave laying out his commitment to improve life for people in urban America — *which for most politicians is a euphemism for black America*. And we all know how liberals have "improved" life in urban (liberal code word for black area) America. For almost 50 years, Democrats "have been improving" urban America with policies that produce high crime rates, unemployment rates and poverty. How have these policies worked out for "urban America?" “Today’s economy has made it easier to fall into poverty. … Every American is vulnerable to the insecurities and anxieties of this new economy. And that’s why the single most important focus of my economic agenda as president will be to pursue policies that create jobs and make work pay,” Obama said<http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/07/sweet_blog_special_obama_unvei_2.html>that day to his mostly black audience. This is called pandering. At that time, the *nation’s overall unemployment rate was 4.7%*. *Whites had a jobless rate of 4.2%* while the *black unemployment rate stood at 8.1%.*Today, *the black rate is 15.5% <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf>, nearly double that of white job-seekers.* Yes, the unemployment rates for everyone was lower under that terrible Bush economy. *I don’t blame Obama* for the economic conditions that are responsible for so many blacks being out of work. The seeds of this problem were planted long before he moved into the Oval Office. *But I do fault him for not doing more to fix this problem*. The poor in urban America, he said in that 2007 speech<http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/07/sweet_blog_special_obama_unvei_2.html>, “suffer most from a politics that has been tipped in favor of those with the most money, and influence, and power.” And then he asked rhetorically, “How can a country like this allow it?” To which he answered, “We can’t.” But so far, under his leadership, he *has* allowed it. Continue reading>>><http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-26-Obamas-broken-promise-to-help-blacks.htm?loc=interstitialskip> Add a comment to this post<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/aww-obama-supporter-points-out-another-broken-obama-promise-ill-help-jobless-blacks/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19927/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com&b=DDC29%2FQZZt%3D7%5BtWxXfu%26%3FG%26pldTWOFpKP1%5DPJGcR%25amkVGgwV>| Publish text, photos, music, and videos by email using our Post by Email <http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/> feature. *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
