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it's hard to lift yourself up by your bootstraps if you don't have any boots and if someone is trying to steal your socks
it's hard to have hope if everyone around you is bitter and without hope
step up america and make communities safe places for children to grow up; that's the first step. and making sure that the adults have jobs will go a long way toward making that happen
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also, why should ANY parent have to work three jobs? in the supposedly richest country in the world? bullshit. do you think working that much is something that comes natural to the black community or something that comes because education and resources are not as readily available to us as our white counterparts.
we need to stop thinking in races and start thinking as a community. when i see that my black brothers and sisters are given an EQUAL opportunity as whites, then we can talk. until then, EVERYONE is responsible for the ills in our country. i'm sick of people asking more of the oppressed as if whites have done nothing to make things the way they are.
07/17/09
But for some reason, this guy makes it sound god damn historic. Good job Mr. President.
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When the most successful African American in the history of the nation tells kids to study hard and stay in school and you can be whatever you want, it commands attention. I actually think it is the most inspiring part of this story.
I don't watch The Wire.
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Non sequitur/true story: worked for a law firm years ago, representing Bill Cosby. I delivered documents to the Cosby residence (along the park), and was let into the adobe by Camille. Modestly put, I was deeply disappointed by the lack of empty pudding cups I expected to litter the floor. Bill Cosby is a fucking fraud.
07/17/09
I appreciate the fact that it was at the NAACP luncheon, and therefore specifically a message for that crowd, but the fact that I'm reading a message about what the President thinks about problems in the black community on Gawker...makes me feel icky. I suppose people who wanted to partake in that "racial dialogue" of the "post-racial era" I hear so much about will dig it, though.
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Is The Wire worth checking out? I can NetFlix the back seasons.
07/17/09
And I think kids should look up to the president, he's the leader of the country. I mean, I get what you're saying, of course Obama has special meaning to black people, but I'm uneasy with this idea that all the sudden the presidency is supposed to resonate on a deeper level. I can't shake the suspicion we're all just patting ourselves on the back like we just birthed black Jesus or something. I didn't need Barack Obama to be president to know what it means for me to be black, and what I am capable of. And anyone who did, needs something the President can't (and shouldn't be expected to) provide.
Also, when did Barry get that lame-ass Southern accent? Is that, like, regional-conscious method voice-acting?
07/17/09
This may sound crazy, but I'm convinced it will take a full blown shoe hole dust-bowl eating stone soup line depression to shake up some of us.
07/17/09
"This may sound crazy, but I'm convinced it will take a full blown shoe hole dust-bowl eating stone soup line depression to shake up some of us."
Or if someone takes away our rights "right to vote, education, etc." only then when we realize what we have.
07/17/09
But I hear something different from President of Awesome. It is that the true power in our humanity comes when we have an embarrassment of riches and distractions, and yet we still choose to make ourselves better. Not because we have to but because we choose to.
This is what I find inspiring about Barack Obama. He coulda been okay and would have been just fine. Instead he chose to be great.
07/17/09
I'm very discouraged. I don't think any amount of money or programs or laws or speeches will help. It all starts in the home. How can we penetrate the parents? There is a complete breakdown within the family unit regarding moral and scholastic responsibility. I work within the judicial system and you could not make up what I have witnessed. It's getting worse.
That was a great speech. Kudos, Obama. Talk the truth. No more backslapping. We have a long way to go.
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it's kind of like the anti-defamation league bitching about there being no jew coaches in the NFL.. (or funnier yet, the NHL)
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Did enjoy your ad-vise though. {Running quickly out the back door}
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02/12/09
The Association for the Advancement of [outdated racist term deleted] thanks you.
Are we all good now?
GREAT!
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