Obama Told MEN To Take Responsibility For The Children They Engender. MEN. Not "Black" Men

[KittyWampus]

MEN.

Just because the Mediawhores decided to LIE and pretend Obama addressed only black fathers, doesn't mean he did.

I have quite a few friends (black and white) who are fellow women tasked with raising children pretty much on their own with little to no assistance from the fathers.

Thank Goodness it's becoming part of the law that before you get your license renewed or passport issued, you have to check with not owing an alimony.

There are a lot of MEN who have pretty much shrugged off any responsibility for their own children.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. But Obama's black, right?

So he must have been only talking about black men.

:sarcasm:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Don't let facts get in the way of a good racebaiting party.

:sarcasm:

[hisownpetard]

3. Jesse Jackson's non-approval of a candidate is reason, in and of itself, for me to support Obama

(not that I needed any more reasons than I already have).

[spag68]

4. The facts, if you care to look

A majority of welfare recipients are white women with children and no supporting husband. All those that want to lay this on black human beings are delusional or worse.

[Captain Hilts]

6. But poverty in single parent households disporportionately affects black families. nt

As 13% of the population they can't be the majority of anything.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Sorry, but this has become an issue in the black community.

Sure, whites do the same crap, but the effects are more dire among the poor, and blacks commprise a disproportionate percentage of those in lower income groups. It's seen as a cause of poverty.

[KittyWampus]

9. Sorry, but he wasn't just addressing blacks and the problem isn't just blacks.

[Captain Hilts]

12. It's a FAR bigger issue in the black community than in the white ...

because of differentials in poverty and crime rates.

[mix]

7. dude

get your facts straight...take the quote w/o context and we get your version...in context, we get the truth

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/us/politics/15cnd-obama.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[KittyWampus]

8. you are a tool of the fucking Mediawhores. He addressed MEN. And the problem includes whites as well

[mix]

14. race-baiting, out of wedlock kids

whether black or white, the MSM representation of people of color...all are important issues, but your OP is simply false...this is not the topic to pick to fight these battles...your failure to understand Obama's words and the context is bizarre

[skooooo]

10. You're another poster who seems to do nothing but bash Obama.

:hi:

[mix]

15. how is pointing out the error of the OP

bashing Obama?

[mix]

16. As an Obama supporter, skooooo

you reserve the right to police other Obama supporters for insufficient adulation...myself, as another Obama supporter I reserve the right correct inaccuracies and falsehoods by people like you and the OPer...seems fair

[ruggerson]

11. I don't have a problem with it, but he has addressed black families before

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/819177,CST-NWS-sweet29.article

"I've got to talk about us a little bit," said Obama. "We can't keep on feeding our children junk all day long, giving them no exercise. They are overweight by the time they are 4 or 5 years old, and then we are surprised when they get sick."

"I know how hard it is to get kids to eat properly," Obama said. "But I also know that if folks letting our children drink eight sodas a day, which some parents do, or, you know, eat a bag of potato chips for lunch, or Popeyes for breakfast.

"Y'all have Popeyes out in Beaumont? I know some of y'all you got that cold Popeyes out for breakfast. I know. That's why y'all laughing. ... You can't do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school."

[genna]

13. Sensitive topic. Sensitive, objectified community. Heated man speak. n/t

[AspenRose]

17. There's nothing wrong with what Senator Obama said

Bill Cosby has taken the heat too for talking about responsibility in the black community. Truth is truth. But there's this thing about "airing dirty laundry" in public, though.

I think the underlying fear with Jesse (and it's a legit fear) may be of the media taking those kinds of comments out of context and using them to smear/trash black people, and especially black men.

But the media's doing that now, has been doing it forever and will continue to do that at every opportunity, whether Obama or Cosby provide "soundbites" or not.

[SwampG8r]

18. i felt he was speaking to me about my relationship to my children

he was talking to black guys?
wtf? why wasnt the story only on BET then?
jeez
i been going around feeling good cause i did all that stuff he was talking about
and he wasnt even talking to me?

my wife and kids were right again
:cry:

i bet the portrait of my grandfather hasnt really been talking to me either