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Apr 19 2011, 06:52 AM
Six Issues on Obama's Black Agenda

1. Affordable Health Care and Community Health Centers
"Health insurance reform was really a tidal wave of improvement for the quality of life of African-American people," says Jarrett of the new law signed in March. "Right now so many chronic illnesses go untreated, either because of lack of access, lack of education, or lack of resources for preventative tests." The law provides health insurance subsidies for households making less than four times the poverty level, and $11 billion for community health centers in underserved areas. Last year Obama also invested $85 million in community health centers.

2. Black Farmers Settlement
In February the President announced a $1.15 billion settlement in a longstanding discrimination suit, won by thousands of Black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The payment has yet to be appropriated by Congress, though, and the deadline for that to happen is May 31. "It is a top priority for the President," said Jarrett, explaining that he's ordered administration officials to work daily with Congress on how to best handle the payout, and to provide daily reports to senior staff on the status. "Long overdue."

3. Jobs and the Economy
Before addressing the administration's approach to tackling the Black unemployment rate of 16.8 percent, which is nearly double the national average, Jarrett credited the Recovery Act for expanding unemployment benefits, TANF (food stamps) and COBRA health coverage. She continued that the White House is supporting a pending $600 million bill that, while incapable of solving the long-term job problem, would create 300,000 summer jobs for low-income youth. "But the best way to help unemployment in the Black community is to improve the public education system," said Jarrett, indicating that the difference between those with professional success and those in poverty is largely academic achievement.

4. Education Reform
...And on that note, Jarrett underscored the unprecedented $77.8 billion in the President's 2011 budget for total Education Department spending. "[Education Secretary] Arne Duncan has been focusing on ways of improving our schools, particularly in the inner cities," she said. The President has allocated $3.5 billion for underperforming urban schools with high dropout rates, $2.1 billion for Head Start early childhood programs for low-income families, and $4.35 billion for "Race to the Top" education reform grants to inspire innovative methods and better teachers in public schools.

5. Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
"We are also continuing to increase our assistance to historically Black colleges," said Jarrett, calling the resources "critical." Obama's 2011 budget includes a $98 million increase in HBCU funding, and a $400 million boost for Pell Grants for low-income students, while the education reconciliation bill he signed into law in March already provides $36 billion for Pell Grants and $2.55 billion directly toward historically Black colleges.

6. Powder/Crack Cocaine Sentencing Change
President Obama has advocated eliminating the "100 to 1" sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine (which means, for instance, that it takes 500 grams of powder to earn a five-year sentence, but only five grams of crack for the same punishment). The 24-year law disproportionately imprisons Black drug offenders, and the Senate recently voted to reduce the gap from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1. "It is a step in the right direction," said Jarrett, also noting the President's increased funding for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "But we'll be pushing forward for more steps to get rid of the disparity

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Health Care and Education those are not black issues, those are issues that every American has to deal with.

Stop trying to make those things black issues

Let me show you what a black issue is

1. What is Obama doing about POLICE BRUTALITY to blacks

2. What is Obama doing about racial profiling of blacks

3. What kind of injustice is Obama fighting, that has been doing to blacks

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Apr 19 2011, 06:25 AM
You people complained like LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL about the healthcare bill when the ones that will primarily get the most benefit is black folks. If black people income tend to lag whites by almost 20K, then this healthcare bill will help close the gap as far as having extra income because medical bills can zap your income; thus placing you in more debt.

Obama signs bill reducing cocaine sentencing gap
President Obama signed a bill Tuesday reducing the disparity in penalties for the use of crack and powder cocaine, according to the White House.

The enactment of the law seals a hard-fought victory for civil rights activists who have argued for years that the differing punishments unfairly target African-Americans.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-03/politics/fair.sentencing_1_powder-cocaine-cocaine-sentencing-gap-sentencing-disparity?_s=PM:POLITICS
Obama made it mandatory that everybody has to BUY health insurance, and if they don't buy it they will be fined

How is that going to help poor black people, that doesn't have any money to buy health insurance
Edited by Marcus, Apr 19 2011, 07:11 PM.
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Apr 19 2011, 09:34 AM
Marcus
Apr 19 2011, 12:39 AM
The news article talks about how Obama is putting black people last, and putting every other group ahead of blacks.

http://newsone.com/newsone-original/newsonestaff2/obama-black-vote-insult/
Marcus, Marcu, Marcus, the black community was screwed up long before anyone knew the name Barack Obama existed. Do you know what propaganda means? Next year is an election year ...people are just loading their blanks early.

I see why so many of you are so short sighted when it comes to politics. You hear something , see something, read something and it's the honest God truth because someone out there is paid to say it. Tell us please what has the president left out that is so important that the black community just must have? Obviously it never occured to you that being the first black Pres. was not going to be the easiest task ever undertaken. I know you don't understand the ramifications of that but try to for your own sake. He's the President not a Black Knight who was elected to do whatever it is you think he was supposed to do for the blacks only. Where does that mind-set come from?

I know I'm wasting my time but I had to say it because so many of you all are so illinformed, and it has nothing to do with party affiliation. There is not one person who posts on this board who thinks of Obama so negatively who could take the Office of President and do anything constructive with the limited power the office is given. For those of you who feel it is just fine for the white population to dictate to the President what they want or don't want why are you not doing the same thing, why just get on AFN and complain and belittle him all the time. Do you think he knows about this board and cares what you say about him. Probably not, because the majority of you just don't have the faintest clue.

You frequently say he's a HN, if Cain were to win the ticket what would he be? You need to stop using all of those old negative terms and get with the program, todays program. Calling your own names like that is so ugly. But you continue to want something better for our community, so how do we get there with that kind of mind set? This time I would appreciate an answer to my questions and not your routine quip from your word file.
Memdear70 sure the black community had it's share of problems before Obama

1. But black people had HOPED that if a black person ever became president, things would be better for us

2. But things hasn't gotten better for black people under Obama, it has gotten worse

3. Black unemployment has almost doubled under Obama

4. Police brutality is up under Obama
Edited by Marcus, Apr 19 2011, 07:21 PM.
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Apr 19 2011, 07:08 PM
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Apr 19 2011, 06:52 AM
Six Issues on Obama's Black Agenda

1. Affordable Health Care and Community Health Centers
"Health insurance reform was really a tidal wave of improvement for the quality of life of African-American people," says Jarrett of the new law signed in March. "Right now so many chronic illnesses go untreated, either because of lack of access, lack of education, or lack of resources for preventative tests." The law provides health insurance subsidies for households making less than four times the poverty level, and $11 billion for community health centers in underserved areas. Last year Obama also invested $85 million in community health centers.

2. Black Farmers Settlement
In February the President announced a $1.15 billion settlement in a longstanding discrimination suit, won by thousands of Black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The payment has yet to be appropriated by Congress, though, and the deadline for that to happen is May 31. "It is a top priority for the President," said Jarrett, explaining that he's ordered administration officials to work daily with Congress on how to best handle the payout, and to provide daily reports to senior staff on the status. "Long overdue."

3. Jobs and the Economy
Before addressing the administration's approach to tackling the Black unemployment rate of 16.8 percent, which is nearly double the national average, Jarrett credited the Recovery Act for expanding unemployment benefits, TANF (food stamps) and COBRA health coverage. She continued that the White House is supporting a pending $600 million bill that, while incapable of solving the long-term job problem, would create 300,000 summer jobs for low-income youth. "But the best way to help unemployment in the Black community is to improve the public education system," said Jarrett, indicating that the difference between those with professional success and those in poverty is largely academic achievement.

4. Education Reform
...And on that note, Jarrett underscored the unprecedented $77.8 billion in the President's 2011 budget for total Education Department spending. "[Education Secretary] Arne Duncan has been focusing on ways of improving our schools, particularly in the inner cities," she said. The President has allocated $3.5 billion for underperforming urban schools with high dropout rates, $2.1 billion for Head Start early childhood programs for low-income families, and $4.35 billion for "Race to the Top" education reform grants to inspire innovative methods and better teachers in public schools.

5. Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
"We are also continuing to increase our assistance to historically Black colleges," said Jarrett, calling the resources "critical." Obama's 2011 budget includes a $98 million increase in HBCU funding, and a $400 million boost for Pell Grants for low-income students, while the education reconciliation bill he signed into law in March already provides $36 billion for Pell Grants and $2.55 billion directly toward historically Black colleges.

6. Powder/Crack Cocaine Sentencing Change
President Obama has advocated eliminating the "100 to 1" sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine (which means, for instance, that it takes 500 grams of powder to earn a five-year sentence, but only five grams of crack for the same punishment). The 24-year law disproportionately imprisons Black drug offenders, and the Senate recently voted to reduce the gap from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1. "It is a step in the right direction," said Jarrett, also noting the President's increased funding for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "But we'll be pushing forward for more steps to get rid of the disparity

Read more: http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/six_issues_on_obamas_black_agenda_yes_bl.php#ixzz1JxtXToNn
Health Care and Education those are not black issues, those are issues that every American has to deal with.

Stop trying to make those things black issues

Let me show you what a black issue is

1. What is Obama doing about POLICE BRUTALITY to blacks

2. What is Obama doing about racial profiling of blacks

3. What kind of injustice is Obama fighting, that has been doing to blacks

Marcus, i am a black man that never had any issues with the police. But I do have issues with health care being too dayum high.
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Deu 28:64 ΒΆ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.

Deu 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
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bilalian1

The first thing we need to do is do a poll of all black people to see what they consider a black issue. i'm sure health care, education, employment, and economics would be the main concerns not police profiling or brutality. The best way to resolve those are to stay away from crime.
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bilalian1

How many of you on this post actually voted in the last Presidential race?
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It does not matter who voted or not does it.
We are all american citizens with rights that are given as long as this republic is in existence.

Our riights to support, critique , protest , lobby, complain, celebrate, organize etc. etc. etc. are not taken away if we choose not to vote.

Many people do not understand this fact.


I voted. I wrote in who I wanted to be president for Inever vote for the lesser of twoo evils as I do not support evil.

Marcus is in line with what many african americans feel. The issues the loyalists are bringing up are general issues. Its interesting that we still have less jobs and less healthcare than everyone else. I guess we didnt get any boats. For now we have to make our own boatsCause nobody gonna give us anything, especially this black president


evidently last black man has been in the sith dimension with memdear
bush gave black colleges approx 80 million more than obama

in my book that is less money


read:http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/9229/1


Obama's Education Budget Cuts $85 Mil from HBCUs

Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:18 am
By: Justin Pope, AP Education Writer

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President Obama's budget didn't include an extra $85 million that black colleges have received annually for two years. (AP)
Leaders of historically black colleges say they'll fight a reduction in a federal program they call a financial lifeline at a time of economic distress for the schools and their students.

President Barack Obama's education budget, unveiled Thursday, included major spending increases in many areas β€” but didn't include an extra $85 million that black institutions have received annually for the past two years thanks to a 2007 change to the student loan laws.



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bilalian1
Apr 19 2011, 11:35 PM
How many of you on this post actually voted in the last Presidential race?
If you can vote for a knowledge of sellf, kind, and others I will be the first in line to vote. How long does it take to get truth, righteousness, and justice on a balot? All else is just a distraction.
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Apr 19 2011, 11:47 PM
It does not matter who voted or not does it.
We are all american citizens with rights that are given as long as this republic is in existence.

Our riights to support, critique , protest , lobby, complain, celebrate, organize etc. etc. etc. are not taken away if we choose not to vote.

Many people do not understand this fact.


I voted. I wrote in who I wanted to be president for Inever vote for the lesser of twoo evils as I do not support evil.

Marcus is in line with what many african americans feel. The issues the loyalists are bringing up are general issues. Its interesting that we still have less jobs and less healthcare than everyone else. I guess we didnt get any boats. For now we have to make our own boatsCause nobody gonna give us anything, especially this black president


evidently last black man has been in the sith dimension with memdear
bush gave black colleges approx 80 million more than obama

in my book that is less money


read:http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/9229/1


Obama's Education Budget Cuts $85 Mil from HBCUs

Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:18 am
By: Justin Pope, AP Education Writer

15Share

President Obama's budget didn't include an extra $85 million that black colleges have received annually for two years. (AP)
Leaders of historically black colleges say they'll fight a reduction in a federal program they call a financial lifeline at a time of economic distress for the schools and their students.

President Barack Obama's education budget, unveiled Thursday, included major spending increases in many areas β€” but didn't include an extra $85 million that black institutions have received annually for the past two years thanks to a 2007 change to the student loan laws.



peace.
People like you want it both ways. You want Obama to make cuts to budget; yet you complain that he made cuts to the wrong program, when in fact, almost all of the program will take some cuts. But you forgot to mention this part of the story.
Education Department officials emphasized that all such institutions stand to gain from other parts of the budget, notably the proposed increase in the maximum Pell Grant for low-income students by $200 β€” to $5,550.

Still, the move could suggest that even as the administration pushes big education spending increases focused on low-income and minority students, direct support for institutions isn't the most favored method. The HBCU program is unusual; most federal help for higher education goes to students, and thus only indirectly to schools.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/9229/1

It just means that HBCUs will have to do a better job of recruiting and retaining students; as well as the alumni of each school step up to the plate. I know for instance at my school, the alumni would just give $100 a year, we would be in great shape. We have prepared for such a situation years ago by establishing various scholarships which means with the Pell grant increase, our students can almost attend free.

You forgot to mention:
Haitian funding is not included in the fiscal proposal as the earthquake occurred after the budget was compiled. President Obama initially pledged 100 million dollars in emergency funds. That money will grow overtime as the United States is joining world communities in financial help to rebuild the quake shattered area. At the Haitian Donors Conference slated for March in New York City, the discussions will center around commitments of just how much will be given for the country over the next ten years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/april-d-ryan/obamas-budget-proposal-so_b_445532.html

It just shows that the President does have a black mindset, but you guys act as if he is King of this country. Let me ask you who controls the money strings on the hill in Washington? Can any President just create a budget with both Houses of congress approving it? This is the start of the Ryan's plan and cuts will get worse if this Ryan guy is checked.
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