yea sure he was talking about all fathers....i mean did u want obama to spell out what demographic he was referring to...u having trouble reading between the lines of his own terms and context....u can defend the nikka all u want but at the end of the day u should take ur boy Tariq's own advice and stop cosigning ppl & agendas when they dont give a fukk about u
44 - Obama Vows to Keep Talking About Fatherlessness
SAN DIEGO -- Sen. Barack Obama said he would continue to
chastise absentee black fathers and deliver tough love speeches to the black community, even if the Rev. Jesse Jackson doesn't like it.
Interviewed on his campaign plane last night on the way to San Diego for a speech to a Latino group, the Illinois senator said Jackson had raised his concerns in a private conversation the two had, even before the civil rights leader's caustic comments became public last week. Jackson was caught on video angrily saying that Obama was "talking down to black people."
"We had actually discussed some of the concerns that he had raised about my Father's Day speech," Obama said. "I told him that I absolutely believe we have structural inequalities in this country that have to be dealt with, which is why I have proposed making sure that health care is accessible for every American.... But my argument is simply that's it's not an either/or proposition but a both/and proposition.
"The government -- and society as a whole -- has an obligation to deal with poverty, particularly poverty that is deep-rooted. Not just in the inner cities but in rural communities all across America.
But we also have to recognize there's a particular problem when more than half of African American children are growing up without a father in the house, and oftentimes not even knowing their father."