On Father’s Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama made his most honest speech on race, maybe his only halfway honest speech on race. The media barely noticed.
The site was the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. From the pulpit Obama spoke to the gathered voters -- excuse me, congregants -- with uncharacteristic audacity. He reminded his audience that too many black fathers were missing from “too many homes.” He knew something of the phenomenon himself given that his father “left us when I was two years old.” Yes, that con again.
Putting aside for a moment his personal story, however fictitious, Obama made the traditionally conservative argument that fatherless children were five times more likely to grow up poor, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and twenty times more likely to get into serious trouble than children who grow up with both parents.
Those absentee fathers, Obama scolded, “have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.” In that it was Obama who made this argument -- not, say, Dan Quayle -- the mainstream media reported the speech uncritically.
Progressives, however, were uneasy about Obama giving voice to what one wag called his “inner Cosby,” and no progressive more so than Jessie Jackson. Even in a whisper, Jackson made his voice heard.
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7 comments:
3 out of 4 black babies being born to a single mother is that cause of much of the ills in the black community. In the 60s it was 1 out of every 5 black babies. Of course many in the black community don't want to have the serious conversations that might affix some of the causation for the problems in the black community because that would mean that blacks would have to take ownership for their own failures. When nothing is ever your fault, that means you can remain a victim and always blame others.
Obama! Tell me the voters (democrats) are not scary people. They elected this Divider in Chief twice. Look at what they are doing and saying about our Country at the present time. Down right scary! Is a civil war coming?
Obama bin Laden didn't even know who his father was. DNA would trace it to less than human bipods
That blacks especially still idolize obama is beyond stupid. He did nothing for the black community except help to get them all riled up so they crapped on their own tables and started killing each other like it's going out of style.
He hates blacks and they are only fooling themselves if they think otherwise but if they are dumb enough to still idolize him then that goes to show they aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the pack.
He knew police reform has been an issue with blacks for decades now but did nothing when he was President and he could very well have. The democrats held Congress the 1st 2 yrs of his presidency and could have passed any police reform bill they wanted to but didn't. This because blacks are the very least of obama's concerns and when they except this fact they will become better people for it. It's disgusting idolizing someone who hates them.
You are exactly right 11:10. He doesn't know who his father was and even did his slutty mother didn't know. She dumped him off with grandparents who had no business raising another one since they were complete failures with her. More trash raising more trash. I bet if you ran B.O's DNA in the one they use to catch criminals there would be lots of hits.
9:02 - democrats didn't elect barack hussein obama twice by themselves, they had some help from uninformed republicans
How about the 8 years Obama betrayed America?
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