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Arwa
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Unlike my previous article, this article, taken from a recent published book by Fredrick Harris at Columbia, I would recommend to read it, or at least the opening paragraph. I have already ordered the book.

The speaker’s voice boomed like a preacher’s as he addressed a crowd of black churchgoers in a college gym. He was talking about a “miracle baby” whose mother, still pregnant, had been shot in the stomach on her way to the grocery store during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. As the tale goes, the bullet penetrated the woman’s womb and became lodged in the armof her yet-to-be-born child. Both survived following surgery to remove the bullet, but the baby had a permanent scar on her right elbow, a reminder of the violence of her birth — and of the scars of racial injustice against the African American poor. It was June 2007, and the speaker linked the incident to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “All the hurricane did was make bare what we ignore each and every day,” he said. “Which is that there are whole sets of communities that are impoverished, whole sets of communities that don’t have meaningful opportunity and don’t have hope and are forgotten.” The solution was clear: “If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it’s time to take the bullet out! . . . If we keep sending our kids to crumbling school buildings, if we keep fighting this war in Iraq, a war that never should have been authorized and should have never been waged . . . it is time to take that bullet out!”
This passionate orator at an annual conference of ministers at Hampton University was not Jesse Jackson, not Al Sharpton, not some other civil rights firebrand. It was presidential candidate Barack Obama. At the time, Obama was trailing Hillary Rodham Clinton among black voters, so he was hard at work rallying African American support. He did so by discussing racial injustice in front of black audiences and by supporting targeted and universal policies to address racial inequality.

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Arwa - please save us from your "I am disappointed in Obama" threads, and simply tell us what you wish he would do.

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Arwa
Blacks don't need no stinking black president.
For any black to be deemed safe enough to be President of the United States of Albinos, he has to literally be one of them, as is Barack Obama.

As my Grandfather used to say; Shoot for the Stars, and get the Moon.

Blacks should aspire to greater things than to inherent a weak, Albino made, twisted representation of a warped reality.
We should strive for nothing less than to change reality back to a reality for the righteous, and sane.

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The liberal progressives have turned their backs on Obama. No wonder his political donations have been down and behind Republicans.

Roberto Unger, Obama's Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President 'Must Be Defeated'

One of President Barack Obama's former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video.

"President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Unger said that Obama must lose the election in order for "the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life."

He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, "there will be a cost ... in judicial and administrative appointments." But he said that "the risk of military adventurism" would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."

"Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest," he said. "This is less a project than it is an abdication."

The professor went on to list his complaints:

"His policy is financial confidence and food stamps."
"He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices."
"He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money."
"He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice."
"He has reduced justice to charity."
"He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight."
"He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/roberto-unger-obama_n_1602812.html

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