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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1088298" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanomics[h=1]Black Agenda Summit at Howard: Obama “Does Not Deserve a Pass Anymore”[/h]<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80015.html" target="_blank">African Americans supported the President with 98%</a>&nbsp; of their vote in November. At the end of President Obama’s first term,&nbsp; the statistics for Black America are daunting and participants clicked&nbsp; off a seemingly insurmountable list of facts challenging African&nbsp; Americans, for example:&nbsp;— <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/" target="_blank">Between 2007 and 2010, Black net worth declined</a> more than 50% to $5,400 for Black families while net worth was $116,000 for white families.— The <a href="http://politic365.com/2013/01/27/naacp-chief-ben-jealous-blacks-are-doing-worse/" target="_blank">Black youth unemployment</a> rate in the last two years has hovered near 40%— <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104552.html" target="_blank">The median income in 2010 of Black families is $35,000 — white families is $54,000</a>— <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2012/11/26/young-voters-supported-obama-less-but-may-have-mattered-more/" target="_blank">The continuing problem</a> of poverty: <a href="http://prospect.org/article/state-poverty-america" target="_blank">46 million, 1 of 7,&nbsp; live below the poverty line</a>.“He is not going to run again for anything. He does not deserve a pass&nbsp; anymore.&nbsp; Let him not only find his voice but summon his courage and use&nbsp; his political capital to address racial inequality. He owes that to the&nbsp; African American community,”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1088298, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanomics[/b] [h=1]Black Agenda Summit at Howard: Obama “Does Not Deserve a Pass Anymore”[/h] [URL="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80015.html"]African Americans supported the President with 98%[/URL] of their vote in November. At the end of President Obama’s first term, the statistics for Black America are daunting and participants clicked off a seemingly insurmountable list of facts challenging African Americans, for example: — [URL="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/"]Between 2007 and 2010, Black net worth declined[/URL] more than 50% to $5,400 for Black families while net worth was $116,000 for white families. — The [URL="http://politic365.com/2013/01/27/naacp-chief-ben-jealous-blacks-are-doing-worse/"]Black youth unemployment[/URL] rate in the last two years has hovered near 40% — [URL="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104552.html"]The median income in 2010 of Black families is $35,000 — white families is $54,000[/URL] — [URL="http://www.people-press.org/2012/11/26/young-voters-supported-obama-less-but-may-have-mattered-more/"]The continuing problem[/URL] of poverty: [URL="http://prospect.org/article/state-poverty-america"]46 million, 1 of 7, live below the poverty line[/URL]. “He is not going to run again for anything. He does not deserve a pass anymore. Let him not only find his voice but summon his courage and use his political capital to address racial inequality. He owes that to the African American community,” [/QUOTE]

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