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On This Day: Barack Obama Is Elected America’s First Black President . ... Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of... . By Christina Santi . ..…
On This Day: Barack Obama Is Elected America’s First Black President . ... Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of... . By Christina Santi . ..…
Barak Obama’s black Kenyan roots allowed him to do the white man’s bidding throughout Africa, and many other nations. ... [Obama] status as a civil rights icon was undercut by many of his policies and aloofness from the plight of the black underclass. ..…
Black voters had made Obama president, and the party needed to at least project the appearance of progress. . ... We got the politicians (ten years after Rustin’s call, there were several hundred black elected officials) — culminating in the 2008 election of Barack..…
The obvious conclusion, supported by the fact that Biden's first two campaign videos are race themed, and the second one includes Barack Obama, is that Biden's popularity among Black voters is hangover from the blind and unconditional support those same voters gave to Obama..…
Akin to the 97% black votes Obama got only because “he’s one of us.” . ..…
But in this case, Biden’s opponents cited Obama’s immigration policies, which included a significant hike in deportations, as a black mark. “You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign,” Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey said, addressing Biden. ..…
The opinion piece, was co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in Obama administration. Obama, the first black president, tweeted the op-ed out Saturday as Trump lashed out at Maryland Rep. ..…
Cassandra Gould American Issues Initiative The documentary starts off under the framework that the intensification of suppression was result of the backlash against the election of Black, Obama. ..…
While whites will (now, anyway) vote for a black candidate over a white—which is how we got Obama—blacks vote as a bloc for black candidates. ... While whites will (now, anyway) vote for a black candidate over a white—which is how we got Obama—blacks vote..…
., their plan to put a stealth black candidate in the White House. Obama’s biggest job and his political career in Chicago were launched by self-avowed communist Bill Ayers. ... Frank Marshall Davis: The biggest influence on Obama’s black identity from age ten through..…
Biden stressed his connection to Obama, who remains extremely popular among black voters. “When I talk about the Obama years, my opponents talk about it, it’s ancient history. ..…
With many white people believing that because Obama was president, any black man can, the belief is that racism as whole is over.. ..…
Biden is the candidate that can beat Trump, said William Fairfax, Claflin University student, pointing to Trump's tweets targeting Biden Richmond, also Congressional Black Caucus chairman, added.. Asked why he was voting for Biden, Denmark Michael Cooper, 50, replied, because he supported Barack..…
Black America and Native peoples reside in the US in a state of neo-slavery. ... The Obama Administration’s left-flank imperial politics has branded imperialism and corporate exploitation with anti-Black racism (see Obama’s 2013 Morehouse graduation speech) and..…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell believes Black people America do not deserve reparations because Barack Obama was elected president.. ..…
Fifty years later, the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, reflected on the bill's impact in an anniversary event. . ..…
., their plan to put a stealth black candidate in the White House. Obama's biggest job and his political career in Chicago were launched by self-avowed communist Bill Ayers. ... He father was a member of the Communist Party and worked through a cell in Detroit to secretly influence..…
South Africa's elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president. 2012. President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for same-sex in historic announcement that came three days after Vice President Joe Biden spoke favor of such unions on NBC's. ..…
The federal judge who adopted the new map, Carlton Reeves, is a black appointee of President Barack Obama. ..…
We do not know how black voters will decide in 2020, though early indicators are that no candidate has Clinton or Obama-like edge with them. ... Had Clinton been able to maintain Obama like levels of support and turnout, she probably would have won Electoral College in 2016. ..…
Obama added fuel to the fire with his pronouncements on race. When the nation was divided over the killing of black Trayvon Martin, for instance, Obama remarked that if he had son, he would look like Martin.. ..…
Not since severe downturn shuttered Freedman's Bank in 1874 have African Americans lost as much of our wealth as we did during Barack Obama's eight years office. Household wealth for the median Black in U.S nosedived during Obama administration, reaching $3,600 in 2017, or about..…
Delegitimizing Obama was Trump's crime and the Democrat's rallying war cry, their call to arms. ... Delegitimizing Obama was Trump's crime and the Democrat's rallying war cry, their call to arms. ..…
And the number and the excitement of the people who showed up for Oakland announcement was reminiscent of Obama enthusiasm... er at least not in the future will rise to the euphoria of the candidacy of America's first Black president, Barack Obama.. 2008 was lightning in bottle,..…
Was Obama Good For Black America? . . BRITTANY: Many saw Barack Obama’s election and presidency as a historic victory for black Americans. ... Obama did absolutely nothing for black Americans while he was in office. ..…
TEN YEARS ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first Black president in the history of the U.S. ... When Obama first announced he was running for president, he actually wasn’t a popular choice for Black voters. ..…
Four years ago, in his keynote speech at Democratic Convention Boston, Barack Obama proclaimed, There's not Black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America there's United States of America, and he set about trying to run in. ..…
Black Unemployment rate: . Obama: Black unemployment rose 3.1 points during Obama’s first two years in office. . . Trump: Black unemployment fell by 1.1 points during Trump’s first two years in office. . . . ..…
Black headline- World hopes Obama can prevent the economic crisis . . ... White headline: World celebrates the first black President, Obama [black letters below] won 364 [electoral] votes . ..…
Ten years ago, Barack Obama took office as the first black president of United States a proud moment for many Americans. ..…
Soros' biggest selling point was that Obama was black. The only thing about him that was known, and exploited was his name, Barach Hussein Obama. ... Plenty of George Soros money was invested into this black man who was pushed into the United States Senate. ..…
In 2016 Hillary Clinton received 88 percent of the black vote whereas Obama got 93 percent -- with a higher overall turnout. ..…
From cheap red hat publicity stunts with the once-revolutionary, Kanye West, to parading Omarosa Trump appeals to Black America when it's beneficial to him.. But those rates reflected trend started under Obama Administration and job gains for Black Americans were actually..…
In a 2015 article written by Lauren Victoria Burke published by Black Press USA ‘Is Black America Better Off Under Obama?’ ... With Barack Obama on the ballot that year, the black voter turnout rate surpassed that of whites for the first time. ..…
It’s because Obama’s black. Read between the lines, people. . Hey, Peter: Did Obama personally pay for the health insurance for millions of sick people? ..…
When AFRICOM was established in the months before Barack Obama assumed office as the first Black president of the United States, a majority of African nations – led by the pan-Africanist government of Libya – rejected AFRICOM, forcing the new command to instead work out of Europe. .....…
Trump said he “discussed a lot of different situations -- some wonderful and some difficulties,' with Obama, adding that he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president’s counsel. . As America’s first ever black president, Obama on January 20 would officially hand over..…
Black unemployment has remained in the double digits throughout the Obama presidency. ... Barack Obama became president right at a time when Black people needed help the most, yet he has done precious little. ..…
Manning once likened Obama, America's first black president, to Adolf Hitler and has said the president is gay. ..…
To many Americans, even many who did not vote for him, the election of Barack Obama seemed to hold out the promise that our racial divide could be healed by a black president. . Even Obama’s supporters must concede it did not happen, though we would, again, argue angrily over why...…
More Obama bears the brunt of blame for America's cities being enflamed. The chief, also black, made push for cultural communist-style social justice February, stating. ..…
Even though Obama received 95 percent of the eligible Black vote, he was a reluctant champion of African Americans as president. ... Even though Obama remained personally popular among African Americans, there were bitter limitations to having a Black president. . ..…
The author begins by briefly mentioning the progress America has made in advancing its civil society, from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” to the first black president in Barack Obama. ..…
Much of the blame for this situation can be directed at ghetto pimp politicians such as Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, career-minded community organizers like Barack Obama, or National Association for Advancement of Colored People and Congressional Black Congress. ..…
But now that Obama has been exposed senior black Christians must no longer be given pass for supporting this man.. ... Rest assured black churches which dis Jesus for Obama will not be investigated by IRS for violating their 501c3 non-profit status.. ..…
With polls showing Americans divided on same-sex marriage, Obama's position risks backlash from some voters, including many of Obama's black and Hispanic supporters... ..…
In message which appeared on Web sites Wednesday, al-Zawahri said that Obama is the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like Malcolm X. ... Zawahiri said in message, that Mr Obama is the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like Malcolm X. ..…
One has to wonder, given his much-hyped margin of victory, why didn’t Obama spend a little of his political capital in the California black community to help defeat Prop 8? ... Obama of all people should know the links between the gay rights movement and the black civil..…