Study: Black Americans Feel Less Empowered Under Obama Than They Once Did

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That would apply to all in their party, the more dependent people become, the less empowered they are.
 
Nothing about Obama surprizes me any more… I pray for America…A country that… although I do not live there… is very close to my heart :signofcross:
 
Ysara said:
Nothing about Obama surprizes me any more… I pray for America…A country that… although I do not live there… is very close to my heart :signofcross:
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AT this point, I live here, and it’s not exactly close to my heart. The American IDEAL is close to my heart, America is not.
 
4 years ago
a woman named Peggy Joseph was so excited about Obama that she took her daughter out of school for a rally. She said she couldn’t wait **for her gas and mortgage to be paid for by Obama. ** Anyone remember that?

youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

Wonder if she still feels the same way 4 years later?
 
Ysara said:
Nothing about Obama surprizes me any more… I pray for America…A country that… although I do not live there… is very close to my heart :signofcross:
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ProdglArchitect said:
AT this point, I live here, and it’s not exactly close to my heart. The American IDEAL is close to my heart, America is not.
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Rather than unify the country, I just feel this country has become more decisive since Obama has become president as he deals more entitlements to those whom he feel is deserving at the expense of others. I am white, divorced, paying child support, middle-class, and stuck in a dead end job, but I do not feel as if anyone owes me anything. I have begun to think that he is not a very nice man. He behaves as if this is a monarchy more than a democracy. His rhetoric does not match his actions, and the fact that he is shielded from reality by the media only perpetuates the problem. I choose NOT to vote for Obama because he is a proponent of abortion, even late-term abortion, and his disregard in the First Amendment by shoving the HHS mandate down our throats. For a man with no particular leadership skills, his ideology is threatening.
 
I would love to see if other groups feel less empowered under Obama than they did before.
 
from a woman’s standpoint, i feel less empowered. i used to feel that i was in the middle class, but now i feel like i have dropped below middle class.
other than the fact, that we have a president who is african american, i don’t think obama has done anything to help the african americans in america. i definitely never felt any benefits from his stimulus programs.
 
In 2005, 77%of blacks reported feeling empowered. In '09, only 71% reported feeling empowered. I don’t know why it went down in the following years; I don’t know why it didn’t go higher in 09.

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I never felt any benefits from the feds either. Should could use some… as well as a job… yeesh.
7_Sorrows said:
from a woman’s standpoint, i feel less empowered. i used to feel that i was in the middle class, but now i feel like i have dropped below middle class.
other than the fact, that we have a president who is african american, i don’t think obama has done anything to help the african americans in america. i definitely never felt any benefits from his stimulus programs.
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7_Sorrows said:
from a woman’s standpoint, i feel less empowered. i used to feel that i was in the middle class, but now i feel like i have dropped below middle class.
other than the fact, that we have a president who is african american, i don’t think obama has done anything to help the african americans in america. i definitely never felt any benefits from his stimulus programs.
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i should point out that i am not african american - just giving my opinion from a woman’s standpoint.
 
Ysara said:
Nothing about Obama surprizes me any more… I pray for America…A country that… although I do not live there… is very close to my heart :signofcross:
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We need all the prayers we can get!

Please pray for a change of Senate leadership as well!
 
7_Sorrows said:
i should point out that i am not african american - just giving my opinion from a woman’s standpoint.
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Regardless of what gender or race you are, it’s about human incentive. Most modern day democrats seem to practically deny such a thing exists.
 
SuperLuigi said:
Regardless of what gender or race you are, it’s about human incentive. Most modern day democrats seem to practically deny such a thing exists.
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yes, it is very sad. i guess by making one feel powerless to do things for themselves or better themselves, it, in turn, gives democrats MORE power.
 
So here we’ve got a lot of white people commenting upon the life experiences of black people. Interesting.
 
ringil said:
So here we’ve got a lot of white people commenting upon the life experiences of black people. Interesting.
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i am commenting on the study that was done. i would assume that many african americans in the middle class have been feeling the economic problems of the past 4 years as has everyone else in the middle class. maybe because of Obama’ magical powers they have not suffered from high unemployment, job losses and higher gas prices like the rest of us.
 
One of the sad ironies of the subprime housing bust is that it has hurt black Americans the most. Our government decided to try a social experiment. They wanted more Americans own homes, particularly minorities. Wall Street was happy to help out. The worst part is that those hurt the most from the resulting housing bubble that popped has been black Americans.

“Black and Blue: Subprime Crisis Hurts Blacks Worst”

blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/09/black-and-blue-subprime-crisis-hurts-blacks-worst/

excerpt from Walter Russell Mead’s sight:
For nearly as long as the blue social model has existed, one of its strongest selling points has been its potential to improve racial equality in America. Programs like food stamps, affirmative action, Head Start and subsidized housing are aimed at poor and minority communities. Over time, the thinking goes, these will help put these communities on an equal footing and facilitate their rise into the middle class. Nearly fifty years later, however, the results of many of these programs have been much less than advertised, ranging from dubious to destructive. The Washington Post reports that, four years into the subprime housing crisis, black families have been hit the hardest:
A Pew Research Center analysis last year found that the wealth of blacks plunged 53 percent during the recession, driven by falling home prices. The average net worth of a black household in 2009 was $5,677, according to the study, the lowest of any racial group. After years of record prosperity, homeownership rates among black Americans have plunged to the lowest level in 16 years. Unemployment has reached levels not seen since the 1980s.
Worse than this, however, is the damage to their credit scores:…
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History could be repeating. The administration didn’t learn from the housing bust of 2008. Our attorney general has been suing banks that do not loan more often to minorities - whether the person can afford the house or not.

“Justice Department Determined to Make a Sequel to the Housing Crisis”

dougpowers.com/2011/07/09/justice-department-housing-crisis/

snippet from Doug Power’s article:
And this sequel is being released before the original has even ended.
Investors Business Daily:
In what could be a repeat of the easy-lending cycle that led to the housing crisis, the Justice Department has asked several banks to relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination, according to court documents reviewed by IBD.
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Prosecutions have already generated more than $20 million in loan set-asides and other subsidies from banks that have settled out of court rather than battle the federal government and risk being branded racist. An additional 60 banks are under investigation, a DOJ spokeswoman says.
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Not loaning money to people who won’t or can’t pay it back? What a horrible crime!
Here’s the “Chicago way” element: Don’t tell anybody what we’re doing, or else:…
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