Not even.
I'm saying its about to get worse and nikkas really aren't acting like they see whats about to come for them.
If ya'll think its bad now, the "black community" has less than 4 years to get it together.
These barack/michelle comments are telling me that affirmative action is about to end
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Not even.
I'm saying its about to get worse and nikkas really aren't acting like they see whats about to come for them.
If ya'll think its bad now, the "black community" has less than 4 years to get it together.
I THINK IT DOES NEED TO END. JUST SO PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW IT WOULD BE WITHOUT IT. IF ANYTHING IT WILL BE A MAJOR KICK IN THE ASS I THINK WE NEED. STOP CHASING THE WHITE MAN AND BUILD OUR OWN.
Take your bytch ass back to africa
I was born in Brooklyn :jada:
what the fukk did you get that from?
You blame whitey for your problems but still want help from the same whitey you hate...GTFOH
Told ya'll.
Obama is laying down the law and is telling you nikkas to get ready.
Barack Obama: Incidental black man? - Salon.com
Barack Obama: Incidental black man?
The president gets personal at Morehouse College, as hard questions loom for black men and his presidency
BY RICH BENJAMIN
32 36 2
more
TOPICS: BLACK, RACE, COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES, BARACK OBAMA, EDITOR'S PICKS, LATINOS, IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION REFORM, DISPARITY, POVERTY, RECESSION, POLITICS NEWS
Barack Obama gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, May 19, 2013. (Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed)
With all the distracting controversies piling on his political plate, who could blame President Obama for getting reflective at his recent commencement speech to Morehouse College graduates? Who could blame the first black president, typically a cool arbiter of analysis and restraint, for getting personal in his remarks to his receptive, brotherly crowd?
How does a black president deliver 2013 Morehouse graduates realistic advice and a pep talk at the same time? How can he optimistically send them forth — with straight talk, or a straight face?
The average white family has about $632,000 in wealth, versus $98,000 for black families. The overall unemployment rate for whites is 6.7 percent, versus 13 percent for blacks, generally. The unemployment rate for black young adults ages 16 to 24 — those outside the commencement halls — is 25 percent, on par with Spanish- or Greek-level joblessness.
Health. College enrollment. Work. Income. Inheritance. The racial gaps are so appalling, this black man is wary to share them. If not properly contextualized, reciting the numbers can have the reverse effect: Hearing the drumbeat of disparities often backfires, and it subconsciously confirms blacks’ seeming inferiority in many white Americans’ minds. Many people privately believe these differences are rooted in blacks’ shortcomings, not in unequal opportunity or history. Indeed, white Americans believe they suffer more racial bias than blacks do, according to a study conducted by Harvard and Tufts Universities in 2011.
If anything, the president’s commencement speech to Morehouse College has an ironic whiff. The poignant nostalgia springs from the first black president addressing black men, both of whom appear to be in the twilight of their power.
As the president cannily knows, blacks are no longer America’s largest minority. How can this writer forget, soon after the president’s inauguration, all the reports that announced black Americans’ declining population share, a news flash that hit some of us like an eviction notice. Hey, effective immediately, the Latinos have ousted the blacks as America’s largest minority! Now the president is doing his best to master the politics of a quickly demographically shifting nation to achieve immigration reform. As an incidental black man.
The predicament of other black men, the president insisted to the graduates, is not just a result of technological change and globalization. He put partial blame at his brothers’ own feet.
“In today’s hyper-connected, hyper-competitive world, with millions of young people from China and India and Brazil, many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did, all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything you haven’t earned,” said the president. “Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.”
As Barack Obama winds down an impressive two terms in office, the historic novelty, from a racial milestone, is now obsolete. Black “firsts” are becoming obsolete. So the idea of a “black president” is obsolete. The president surely understands the quaintness and nostalgia of this commencement occasion, with its creaking racial symbolism.
Another thorny question lingers: Is Morehouse itself obsolete? Is the black male liberal arts college obsolete in a supposedly post-black, post-feminist, post-masculinist, globalized, techno-world?
This recession is throwing non–college educated black men under the bus. With or without a black president. Is it also putting a final nail in their coffin, as it were? Leaving us behind? The dark backdrop to the president’s address is black men’s viability in a 21st century world.
Images of Forrest Whitaker in “Ghost Dog” haunt me. As the president will soon take his exit from office, black men seem to be vanishing from participation and sight — declining as a collective political and economic force, vanishing from participation and sight in all the places that matter in America: the office, the voting booth, the trading floor and the college commencement hall.
Obama is laying down the law and is telling you nikkas to get ready.
Barack Obama: Incidental black man? - Salon.com
Barack Obama: Incidental black man?
The president gets personal at Morehouse College, as hard questions loom for black men and his presidency
BY RICH BENJAMIN
32 36 2
more
TOPICS: BLACK, RACE, COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES, BARACK OBAMA, EDITOR'S PICKS, LATINOS, IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION REFORM, DISPARITY, POVERTY, RECESSION, POLITICS NEWS
Barack Obama gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, May 19, 2013. (Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed)
With all the distracting controversies piling on his political plate, who could blame President Obama for getting reflective at his recent commencement speech to Morehouse College graduates? Who could blame the first black president, typically a cool arbiter of analysis and restraint, for getting personal in his remarks to his receptive, brotherly crowd?
How does a black president deliver 2013 Morehouse graduates realistic advice and a pep talk at the same time? How can he optimistically send them forth — with straight talk, or a straight face?
The average white family has about $632,000 in wealth, versus $98,000 for black families. The overall unemployment rate for whites is 6.7 percent, versus 13 percent for blacks, generally. The unemployment rate for black young adults ages 16 to 24 — those outside the commencement halls — is 25 percent, on par with Spanish- or Greek-level joblessness.
Health. College enrollment. Work. Income. Inheritance. The racial gaps are so appalling, this black man is wary to share them. If not properly contextualized, reciting the numbers can have the reverse effect: Hearing the drumbeat of disparities often backfires, and it subconsciously confirms blacks’ seeming inferiority in many white Americans’ minds. Many people privately believe these differences are rooted in blacks’ shortcomings, not in unequal opportunity or history. Indeed, white Americans believe they suffer more racial bias than blacks do, according to a study conducted by Harvard and Tufts Universities in 2011.
If anything, the president’s commencement speech to Morehouse College has an ironic whiff. The poignant nostalgia springs from the first black president addressing black men, both of whom appear to be in the twilight of their power.
As the president cannily knows, blacks are no longer America’s largest minority. How can this writer forget, soon after the president’s inauguration, all the reports that announced black Americans’ declining population share, a news flash that hit some of us like an eviction notice. Hey, effective immediately, the Latinos have ousted the blacks as America’s largest minority! Now the president is doing his best to master the politics of a quickly demographically shifting nation to achieve immigration reform. As an incidental black man.
The predicament of other black men, the president insisted to the graduates, is not just a result of technological change and globalization. He put partial blame at his brothers’ own feet.
“In today’s hyper-connected, hyper-competitive world, with millions of young people from China and India and Brazil, many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did, all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything you haven’t earned,” said the president. “Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.”
As Barack Obama winds down an impressive two terms in office, the historic novelty, from a racial milestone, is now obsolete. Black “firsts” are becoming obsolete. So the idea of a “black president” is obsolete. The president surely understands the quaintness and nostalgia of this commencement occasion, with its creaking racial symbolism.
Another thorny question lingers: Is Morehouse itself obsolete? Is the black male liberal arts college obsolete in a supposedly post-black, post-feminist, post-masculinist, globalized, techno-world?
This recession is throwing non–college educated black men under the bus. With or without a black president. Is it also putting a final nail in their coffin, as it were? Leaving us behind? The dark backdrop to the president’s address is black men’s viability in a 21st century world.
Images of Forrest Whitaker in “Ghost Dog” haunt me. As the president will soon take his exit from office, black men seem to be vanishing from participation and sight — declining as a collective political and economic force, vanishing from participation and sight in all the places that matter in America: the office, the voting booth, the trading floor and the college commencement hall.
jilla82
Veteran
damn its sad how much yall think about white people.
All these theories on the white man...do yall even have any white friends?
What kind of jobs are you holding to actually come in contact w/ white people that have actual power?
Why dont you focus on your broke ass problems, and less what white people are doing for you.
All these theories on the white man...do yall even have any white friends?
What kind of jobs are you holding to actually come in contact w/ white people that have actual power?
Why dont you focus on your broke ass problems, and less what white people are doing for you.
he is a typlical "blame all your problems on whitey" N!gga.:obama3:
Captain Crunch
Veteran
At the thought of a black man EVER having preferential treatment in America.
We are in major trouble, but Affirmative Action doesn't have much to do with it. Liberals hate us as much as the conservatives do now with the new gay and feminist movements in full swing. Now we have wealthy white gay males and disgruntled white females trying to act like they're the new big victims in America. And they're vilifying the black man more than anyone else as we see in the media.
Shucks they villianifying all of us, the dudes; the ladies, even the kids. They on a full force "shyt on blacks" campaign, and it's going to be apparent after Obama leaves in 2016.