Why are blacks the defacto Symbol of Poverty in the US? (Missouri, Alabama)
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Perhaps I am misinformed or naive but I don't think of "inner city" blacks being poor at all. Nor do I think of whites who are on welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing as being poor. Most of these folks manage to have cell phones, dish television, video games and a host of other toys that I cannot afford.
The people who I know who are "poor" are the ones who refuse, out of a sense of pride to give in to the government dole, and work one, or two or sometimes three jobs, just to pay their rent, raise their children and keep food on the table. And while they may be financially challenged they have a degree of honor and integrity that the aforementioned "poor" people will never know.
No, I just happen to think that Obama's giving trillions of tax dollars away to his bankster puppet masters has harmed the Black middle class.
I guess that he was dupped into believing that it might work, pretty much like the wealthy dupped the poor/middle class whites that the teabaggers had their best interest.
I guess that he was dupped into believing that it might work
Duped? No.
Obama was the one who negotiated the terms...
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"For two weeks, I was on the phone every day with [Treasury] Secretary Paulson and the congressional leaders making sure that the principles that have ultimately been adopted were incorporated in the bill," Obama said.
AND Obama's giveaway to Wall Street was intentional...
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"Everything's f*cked up, and nobody goes to jail" - former Senate investigator
..."The betrayal that this represents by Obama to everybody is just — we're not ready to believe it," says Budde, a classmate of the president from their Columbia days. "He's really f*cking us over like that? Really?"
Mang, great point! This is no different than the Democrats and the "black poor vote." They have never done anything to help the black poor. Sure, the democrats have helped the black elite no different than the repubs helping the white elite, but yet the middle classes of each groups are to silly to see this and continue to vote in hopes of nothing its a total shame. Just look at affirmative action this program has never helped the black poor in great numbers, but it has helped the black elite (a group I might add that did not need this cructch or sort of help to begin with)
No, it actually helped white women more than anyone else! Black women comes in at a distant second
Oh for cryin' out loud. There's so many blacks that have made it well beyond whites, it has to be a matter of action.
C'mon:
POTUS: Barack Obama -
TV: Oprah
Golf: Tiger Woods
Best in NFL: Who knows probably black
Best in Basketball: Coby Bryant? Mike Jordan, Magic?
You fill in some.
Black can and do "get to the top".
Again, people, use your own eyes.
Uh, excuse me all you did was enforce the very same sterotypes that many blacks are trying to avoid. Except for the president, all of the people that you just put on a black pedestal are all entertainers or atheletes. Why should we as blacks keep enforcing to our children in order to "make it" they have to take a long shot at being either an entertainer or an athelete. Why did'nt you start naming CEOs, powerful politicans, masters of industry, or even inventors and compare the numbers. I bet you will have to look it up, because it does not pop in your head right away now does it? So I guess it is not as easy to get to the top now is it?
Uh, excuse me all you did was enforce the very same sterotypes that many blacks are trying to avoid. Except for the president, all of the people that you just put on a black pedestal are all entertainers or atheletes. Why should we as blacks keep enforcing to our children in order to "make it" they have to take a long shot at being either an entertainer or an athelete.
Because Blacks won't buck the Democrats who insist on trapping low-income and inner-city kids in horrendous public schools. The Dems absolutely refuse to allow school vouchers in which the money follows the student TO the school of the student's and their family's choice.
Nope. No academics for those kids. Keep them dumb and dependent.
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