Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President was among those who met with President Obama on Friday (11-16-12) regarding the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ crisis
*(Via Black B lue Dog) – Since President Obama was elected with 93% of the black vote, there is now a conversation regarding how to leverage unprecedented political support in order to receive the attention from the Obama Administration that such support deserves. The Associated Press wrote about the matter this week, quoting Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Ben Jealous and National Urban League President Marc Morial along the way.
“I think the president heard us loud and clear. The collective message was, ‘Let’s build on where we already are,’” said Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sharpton then continued to speak to the need to “help the black community” by fighting to support President Obama by averting the pending crisis on the fiscal cliff.
Ben Jealous was also quoted, saying the following:
“We need Republicans to think hard and to pull back from the cliff 98 percent of our families, who make up the bulk of this nation, from seeing our taxes being raised,” Jealous said.
Marc Morial took the conversation in a different direction. Rather than simply repeating the agenda of the Obama Administration and pretending that it is the same as the black agenda, Morial actually spoke to the issues that affect the black community directly. He spoke about a jobs plan for urban areas that have been hardest hit by the recession as part of the path to a full economic recovery. While banks, corporations and white Americans have seen their economic condition improve a great deal over the last four years, due to direct capital injections from Washington, black Americans are facing unemployment rates that would be entirely unacceptable for any other group.
In the context of his request for a jobs program, Morial specifically stated that the programs should be implemented “with a special focus on those communities where unemployment is and remains stubbornly and persistently high.”
“We who represent the nation’s urban communities will demand a seat at the table in these discussions,” he also wrote in his letter.
Do you notice the difference in leadership here? The first two men, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous, sound like defacto employees of the Obama Administration, as if they are punching a time clock and picking up a check at the end of the day.
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Morial specifically stated that the programs should be implemented “with a special focus on those communities where unemployment is and remains stubbornly and persistently high.”
Really just a repeat of Maxine Waters saying:
“He (Obama) must then articulate how the plan he puts forth will target the communities with the highest rates of unemployment, including the African American community.”
And Obama’s response will once again be:
“A rising tide lifts all boat.”
Even though Rep. Laura Richardson said:
“The approach that assisting all communities helps African-Americans get jobs is a bunch of bull.”
It’s not just about employment. We have to get our people better educated so we can compete for some of these jobs. That means we need to participate and do our part. We can’t just sit back and say Obama please save us!
>Khanman: I completely agree.
What makes you think that Blacks are not educated? There are more black people, Black women and men in college than ever before. I interact with them everyday so that’s a bunch of bull that we are not educating ourselves. The jobs are just not there! Low paying jobs can barely pay a bill, much less rent and other expenses. There is also alot of institutional discrimination and if you think for one minute that with 3 or 4 degrees that all it takes is just ‘education’, think again. I work in academia and I see this mess everyday.
“Since President Obama was elected with 93% of the black vote, there is now a conversation regarding how to leverage unprecedented political support in order to receive the attention from the Obama Administration that such support deserves.”
Why make demands now? This should have been done during the election. Gays and Lesbians, Latinos/Hispanics, Jews and other groups have an agenda during elections and if candidates are down with that groups issues then that group will go all out for that candidate. If not, then the candidate will not get any votes from that group. Since Obama got 93% of the Black vote, he got a freebie. He didn’t have to promise something in return for the Black vote like the GLBT and the Jewish vote.
Chris40, some of the more enlightened didn’t wait until now. They have been sounding the alarm for years now–and have been roundly criticized for it.
This part of the article should shock everyone into attention: “Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous, sound like defacto employees of the Obama Administration, as if they are punching a time clock and picking up a check at the end of the day.”
WAKE UP PEOPLE. THERE IS A COUP GOING ON AND BLACKS HAVE BEEN SOLD DOWN THE RIVER. The Obama administration [wisely] infiltrated the ranks of public figures and enticed them with favors to do its bidding. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT SPEAKING FOR YOU. THEY ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. WAKE UP!
Yeah TGen, Dr. Boyce really laid it down in this article:
“It saddens me to see our most powerful civil rights leaders bowing to a racist American power structure by giving Democratic leaders carte blanche to leave the black community in ruins. … This is not leadership – this is followership, and Jealous has unfortunately tarnished the already fragile reputation of the NAACP by allowing his work for the president to override his interest in protecting African American people.
We tried the Sharpton-Jealous-Morial-Obama meetings over the last four years and black unemployment continued to grow to the crisis levels that they’ve reached today. We’ve also seen no significant advances in the epidemics of mass incarceration or urban violence, proving beyond any reasonable doubt, that these meetings have been highly ineffective.”