President speaks candidly on poverty in America calling out Fox News at Poverty Summit
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By Mona Austin
By Mona Austin
The Fox News organization has profusely criticized President Barack Obama during both of his terms in office and at a event event Obama. At a poverty summit with experts and policy makers held at Georgetown University, Obama called out the conservative news media outlet for perpetuating racial stereotypes about Blacks. Hear what the president had to say in the video clip below.
President Obama joined the conversation on poverty at the Catholic Evangelical Leadership Summit held at Georgetown University on Tuesday. In the talk the president pointed out poverty in America is an a-political issue that deserves the attention of both Democrats and Republicans.
He also addressed the link between poverty, race and class, saying essentially racial segregation and class segregation are now trading places.
"Part of what's happened is elites in a very mobile globalized world are able to live together away from folks who are not as wealthy and so they feel less of a commitment to making those investments," Obama said.
Obama sees poverty primarily as a generational problem that can be alleviated in part through parenting.
He said. "I will have a conversation with young Black men that I will probably not have with the women of Barham. I make no apology for that. And the reason is that I am a Black man who grew up without a father and I know the cost I've paid for that. I also note that I had the capacity to break that cycle and as a consequence I think my daughters are better off."
he says include a lack of opportunity for inner-city youth and laws that make it difficult to escape a cycle of crime.
Last Monday, President Obama launched the My Bothers Keeper Alliance, the offspring of his administration's My Brother's Keeper Initiative, pledging to remain committed to the work of developing minority boys for the rest of his life.
However, President Obama argued the most effective anti-poverty program is a job. He described the consequences of widespread unemployment which he said has disproportionally affected African American communities for decades and persists today.
"Men who could not get jobs left [their families]. Mothers who are single are not able to read as much to their kids," he said.
Currently the African American employment rate is at 10%, nearly double the national average according to the Labor Department, a reality that hit close to home as witnessed during riots in Baltimore in late April.
President Obama was also decidedly more vocal abouthowrace shapes converasations
Following First Lady Obama's speech to the graduating class of Tuskeegee University where she addressed her experience with the sedimentary damage of racism, the President was more forward than usual, pointing to Fox News as a media catalyst for drudging up racist stereotypes.
Said Obama, "If you watch Fox News on a regular basis it is a menu they will find--(pause)--folks who make me mad. I don't even know where they find them. They're all like 'I don't wanna work. I just want a free Obama phone.' That becomes an entire narrative. That gets worked up."
"We can do something about this problem.. .Ithink it's important that we gaurd against cyncism becasue there's alot we can do.
By Mona Austin
By Mona Austin
The Fox News organization has profusely criticized President Barack Obama during both of his terms in office and at a event event Obama. At a poverty summit with experts and policy makers held at Georgetown University, Obama called out the conservative news media outlet for perpetuating racial stereotypes about Blacks. Hear what the president had to say in the video clip below.
President Obama joined the conversation on poverty at the Catholic Evangelical Leadership Summit held at Georgetown University on Tuesday. In the talk the president pointed out poverty in America is an a-political issue that deserves the attention of both Democrats and Republicans.
He also addressed the link between poverty, race and class, saying essentially racial segregation and class segregation are now trading places.
"Part of what's happened is elites in a very mobile globalized world are able to live together away from folks who are not as wealthy and so they feel less of a commitment to making those investments," Obama said.
Obama sees poverty primarily as a generational problem that can be alleviated in part through parenting.
He said. "I will have a conversation with young Black men that I will probably not have with the women of Barham. I make no apology for that. And the reason is that I am a Black man who grew up without a father and I know the cost I've paid for that. I also note that I had the capacity to break that cycle and as a consequence I think my daughters are better off."
he says include a lack of opportunity for inner-city youth and laws that make it difficult to escape a cycle of crime.
Last Monday, President Obama launched the My Bothers Keeper Alliance, the offspring of his administration's My Brother's Keeper Initiative, pledging to remain committed to the work of developing minority boys for the rest of his life.
However, President Obama argued the most effective anti-poverty program is a job. He described the consequences of widespread unemployment which he said has disproportionally affected African American communities for decades and persists today.
"Men who could not get jobs left [their families]. Mothers who are single are not able to read as much to their kids," he said.
Currently the African American employment rate is at 10%, nearly double the national average according to the Labor Department, a reality that hit close to home as witnessed during riots in Baltimore in late April.
President Obama was also decidedly more vocal abouthowrace shapes converasations
Following First Lady Obama's speech to the graduating class of Tuskeegee University where she addressed her experience with the sedimentary damage of racism, the President was more forward than usual, pointing to Fox News as a media catalyst for drudging up racist stereotypes.
Said Obama, "If you watch Fox News on a regular basis it is a menu they will find--(pause)--folks who make me mad. I don't even know where they find them. They're all like 'I don't wanna work. I just want a free Obama phone.' That becomes an entire narrative. That gets worked up."
"We can do something about this problem.. .Ithink it's important that we gaurd against cyncism becasue there's alot we can do.
