President Obama on black America’s new reality
By Eugene Robinson | Sunday, July 19, 2009 | The Washington Post
“…In his six months in office, Obama has taken few occasions to confront the issue of race head-on. This moment was inescapable. But his words about the deficits that still plague black America were delivered to a room full of NAACP convention delegates who are, by and large, highly educated and comfortably affluent — men and women who already have high expectations for their children and know how to hold their elected officials accountable. Missing was the too-large segment of the black community that has been left behind….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/18/AR2009071801045_pf.html
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