Liberal Myth: The election of Obama made a difference for black Americans (statistics, regular)
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The black unemployment rate went from 17% to 7% during Obama`s term and the president doesn`t have the power to give people a raise in wages.
The he shouldn’t have campaigned on change.
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Originally Posted by gmagoo
The gun violence was far worse during the Reagan years when the yearly average was 722 gun deaths but I don`t think it was Reagan`s or Obama`s idea to let everyone who wants a gun have a gun.
I’m sure gun violence was worse in the Wild Wild West, that doesn’t make black on black violence acceptable or ok.
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Originally Posted by gmagoo
What would happen if Obama had created special programs to help blacks only?
That’s the point, liberals can’t help blacks and they never will. Change comes from within and not a politician.
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Originally Posted by gmagoo
A lot of white people lost their minds just seeing a black man in the Whitehouse. However I do agree with you that there is something really effed up within that culture. Solution???
A lot of white people voted to get that black man in the whitehouse.
The solution has been stated hundreds of times. Stop subsidizing and providing a financial incentive for single parents to have babies through the explosion of welfare. Reform welfare to stop penalizing 2 parent low income earners when a single parent has more benefits and less taxes.
This will decrease the out of wedlock birthrates, increase the number of 2 parent workers in the household, and decreas the number dysfunctional unstable households raising kids at high risk of committing crime and engaging in self sabotaging issues.
I do think he is a good family man who's election to the presidency has given hope to millions of black Americans who felt that they could not achieve anything they want to through hard work and honesty.
This is his legacy. You cannot put a price on the millions of black children who will never know what it's like to think, "There will never be a black president in my lifetime," or the centenarians who lived through Jim Crow, whose parents were slaves and lived through Reconstruction...and witnessed the impossible happen in their lifetime.
But, I do think he is a good family man who's election to the presidency has given hope to millions of black Americans who felt that they could not achieve anything they want to through hard work and honesty.
Many people felt this way in 2008, including me. Unfortunately the statistics don’t reflect any noticeable change during or after his presidency.
If he inspired the Americans who needed hope the most (poor people of color) then cities like Southside Chicago should not be breaking records with gun violence.
Truth is he didn’t inspire or provide hope for anyone who wasn’t already going to succeed in life regardless of who was in office. Just as his election didn’t stop any criminal who wasn’t already going to act a fool regardless of who was in office. The statistics say so.
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Originally Posted by njforlife92
So while I don't celebrate Obama's policies, I do celebrate the election of the first black President.
As do I, the problem is he campaigned on change for 8 years and not just being black.
Two people so far have assumed that you are a white Republican.
. . . it's like they assume that a black person would never admit that change has to come from within.
Agreed, it’s like black people aren’t allowed to think for themselves. They must all vote the same way and support the same failed liberal politicians.
Black people aren’t allowed to look in the mirror either. Nope, we’re perfect. Every time a black guy shoots another black guy it was the fault of a white person somehow
This must be what Ben Carson, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, and Condi Rice feel like 24/7.
Then what do you THINK -- not what do the cited stats indicate.
Liberals and their explosion of welfare policies are the author of black pain and issues.
The more we vote for them the worse off we get. Sorry that you can’t see the obvious. This doesn’t mean blacks need to vote republicans, this means blacks need to vote for themselves (no one) and changing within. Aka not shooting eachother every week
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Originally Posted by moneill
From what I have heard -- many blacks feel that it was encouraging to see a black person in the Presidency.[
I would be encouraged if a woman became President....even one I may not have voted for.
It shows that gains are being made.
What gains are being made? Feel good gains? I want the proof. I want the statistics.
Apparently these “gains” aren’t enough to stop us from kneeling for the national anthem and rioting over every police verdict over a shooting. Yeah, some great gains there.
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At one time there is no way a black person would have been able to hold such a high office right?
Right, so blacks are already armed with all the evidence (and hope) they need to be successful in this country, right?
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