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Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities.
The president also reflected on the absence of his father growing up, noting that he was raised by a “heroic single mother” and urged the young graduates not to shrink from their family responsibilities.
Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities.
The president also reflected on the absence of his father growing up, noting that he was raised by a “heroic single mother” and urged the young graduates not to shrink from their family responsibilities.
Urging young men to avoid making excuses? Isn't BO the man who blames his inability to get anything done on an over-the-hill, drug-addicted radio talk host?
I heard the speech to the Morehouse graduates and was very impressed, accountability in the African American community among us as black men has long been an achilles heel, and needed to be touched upon, most appropriate to be confronted head on at a HBC.
The election of a Black president who cannot do anything overtly to help Blacks should be a wake up call to the Black community. Politics has its limits.
Urging young men to avoid making excuses? Isn't BO the man who blames his inability to get anything done on an over-the-hill, drug-addicted radio talk host?
I heard the speech to the Morehouse graduates and was very impressed, accountability in the African American community among us as black men has long been an achilles heel, and needed to be touched upon, most appropriate to be confronted head on at a HBC.
A question that you may be able to answer seeing as you how you can admit that accountability is an issue: why is it when Obama addressed accountability it's OK, but when Bill Cosby or Dr Carson or white people mention it - it's a bad thing and/or racist??
It seems that there is an entire generation of all races and religions where accountability isn't addressed.
A question that you may be able to answer seeing as you how you can admit that accountability is an issue: why is it when Obama addressed accountability it's OK, but when Bill Cosby or Dr Carson or white people mention it - it's a bad thing and/or racist??
The damned if you do, damned if you don't display of ODS, runs unabated. On another thread you claimed that Obama had not right to even make the point....
Anyway, to answer your question, Cosby 2004 "Pound Cake Speech" was met with "a mixture of "astonishment, laughter and applause," at the almost exclusively African American attendees of the NAACP gathering. Did it spark controversy and discussion in the African American community, it certainly did. Was Cosby ostracized by the black community as a result, that is a figment of right-wing overwrought imagination. As for Dr. Carson... black folks take a rather dim view of black folks who call folks out at predominately white events and then are paraded around by white folks as if no black person in the history of mankind has ever made the same arguments. Like the n-word it boils down to context, context, context.
By the way, I know that you haven't been paying attention but this isn't the first time that Obama has made such a speech.
"We've got to say to our children, Yes, if you're African American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that someone in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. That's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands - and don't you forget that."
The election of a Black president who cannot do anything overtly to help Blacks should be a wake up call to the Black community. Politics has its limits.
You honestly think that black folks require your services tell them that? Or are you just trolling for general principle because I can guarantee that posting this on C-D ain't reaching a whole lot of black folks that would be impressed or informed.
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