Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is interviewed by Tavis Smiley on the President’s speech last Saturday night to the annual CBC Dinner. I’m not a huge Tavis fan. Frankly, I think he focused too much on the President during his poverty tour as if poverty began in January 2009 when President Obama took office. However, there are a few interesting points made during this interview. Note Rep. Jackson Lee’s attempts to bend backwards to explain what the President said rather than pile on.
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Ms.. Burke said….
” I’m not a huge Tavis fan. Frankly, I think he focused too much on the President during his poverty tour as if poverty began in January 2009 when President Obama took office.
F.Y.I.
Blacks Folks r suffering and Obama hasn’t even noticed.
HE AS IGNORED THE BLACK COMMUNITY MORE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA
Ms. Burke i hope that u will one day have the love for Black Folks like Tavis Smiley and Dr. West.
Here is Proof..
Tavis Smiley spoke with NBC’s Lester Holt in April and said..
that President Obama is ignoring blacks, the “most loyal” part of his constituency
who “ought to be looked out for,” reports Real Clear Politics
.
“It’s just not that black folks are hurting the most now.
It’s that there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better.
There really are two questions in black America, I think, Lester, have to wrestle with.
At least two questions. Number one: what is the pain threshold in black America?
What is our pain threshold, number one.
And number two, what is the presidency really worth?
Is it worth not saying anything? Is it worth being silent when you’re catching the most hell,
when you’re suffering the most pain?
Especially, when you’re the most loyal part of the President’s base,” Smiley told Lester Holt.
“That’s not hating on the President, it’s defending your own flanks.
And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils?
If anybody ought to be looked out for, it ought to be the persons who represent the most significant and the most loyal part of the base.
That would be African-Americans.”
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