What's with this notion that Obama didn't do anything for black people?

[playa-exodus]

I'm sorry my man but this thinking is dangerous and it is sincerely ignorant. No fucking way Obama and Trumps administrations the same:

The Southern Poverty Law Center reported a rise in hate related attacks since Trump been elected.
HUD raised the rent on people living in public housing
Jeff Sessions did away with Decent decrees, even the ones that the City of Baltimore agreed with
Trump reversed Obama's policy that encouraged colleges to consider race as a factor in administrations
Trump did away with the budget to monitor white supremacists
In Trumps 2018 budget, he wants to eliminate the National Minority Supply & Development Council, making it harder for black owned businesses to even get contracts
Trump's Voter Fraud Commission headed by Kris Kobach was set up specifically to manufacture evidence of voter fraud.

And this is just off the top of my head

Housing, Healthcare, Fiscal policy and even black businesses, they are nowhere near the same orbit

Not to mention going from appointing a record breaking percentage of AFRICAN AMERICAN JUDGES to lifetime positions on federal courts to appointing people who think the civil rights and voting rights acts should be disbanded to lifetime appointments.

People who think Trump has been inconsequential to black people are fucking delusional and need to quit listening to youtube activists who are politically ignorant like Tariq Nasheed.

 

[nate1477]

good data. Hard to refute.

 

[Entrepronegro]

 

[gene cisco]

Obama didn't act on rescheduling marijuana but his directions to the justice department to not interfere with medical and legal marijuana in states like cali and Colorado is what makes legal marijuana federally much more viable than ever before.

And doing more than ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES COMBINED is nothing to sneeze at. Obama literally granted clemency to more people (and BLACK PEOPLE) THAN ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED. Acting like that doesn't take balls is the understatement of the century.

He issued a record number of denials as well. And at the end of the day, you talking under 2000 people. Come on man.

As for the marijuana, he came into office going hard at it, remember? He then backed down as the opinion of the country changed. He still wouldn't take a strong progressive stance on it because that's not what he fucking does. He plays it safe.

He did some minor things overall for specifically for black people. Why can't we just leave it at that instead of acting like he did some profound shit for the community?

What major thing has he done for black people that Trump could undo and we'd all be like 'Oh shit!" What's our DACA?

I know when it comes to Obama's baby -- health care -- we got jokes around here about cacs suffering. Voting against their own interest. I doubt if there was some major prison reform act of Obama's that Trump fucked with cats would be posting sob stories about cacs. It would be an outright attack on the black community. Just like Hispanics go crazy over DACA.

So name the major act Obama did for black people specifically that Trump can undo or has undone. If there is one, I stand corrected. Has to be big shit like DACA or healthcare though.

 

[playa-exodus]

He issued a record number of denials as well. And at the end of the day, you talking under 2000 people. Come on man.

As for the marijuana, he came into office going hard at it, remember? He then backed down as the opinion of the country changed. He still wouldn't take a strong progressive stance on it because that's not what he fucking does. He plays it safe.

He did some minor things overall for specifically for black people. Why can't we just leave it at that instead of acting like he did some profound shit for the community?

What major thing has he done for black people that Trump could undo and we'd all be like 'Oh shit!" What's our DACA?

I know when it comes to Obama's baby -- health care -- we got jokes around here about cacs suffering. Voting against their own interest. I doubt if there was some major prison reform act of Obama's that Trump fucked with cats would be posting sob stories about cacs. It would be an outright attack on the black community. Just like Hispanics go crazy over DACA.

So name the major act Obama did for black people specifically that Trump can undo or has undone. If there is one, I stand corrected. Has to be big shit like DACA or healthcare though.

• Literally the first thing Trump did when he got into office was reverse Obama's criminal justice initiatives related to closing private federal prisons and he also stopped all investigations into police departments having been excused of brutality.
• He had the Justice Department dropped its long-standing positions and investigations into voter ID laws meantto keep blacks from voting.
  
• Trump's Department of Housing and Urban Development rescinded a proposed Obama-era rule that would have required more justification for public housing agencies seeking to demolish public housing projects in urban communities.
  
• Trump reversed a rule requiring large companies to report worker pay by race and gender in order to decrease the wage gap through greater pay transparency.
  
• Repealed Obama-era regulation that restricted drug-testing for job seekers receiving unemployment benefits.
  
• Trump rescinded Obama’s 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces meant to apply 14 labor and civil rights laws to federal contractors, who now will no longer have to provide documentation of their workplace practices.
  
• Rescinded an Obama-era Justice Department letter that asked local courts across the country to be wary of slapping poor defendants with fines and fees to fill their jurisdictions’ coffers.
  
• The Department of Labor changed its interpretation of a law regulating when contractors can be held liable for employment and civil rights law violations
  
• Overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties
  
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to nix reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide.
• Gutted Lifeline, the program dedicated to bringing phone and internet service within reach for people of color, low-income people, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities, with particularly egregious consequences for tribal areas. They also voted to eliminate several rules promoting competition and diversity in the broadcast media, undermining ownership chances for women and people of color.
  
• the Trump administration announced it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation in 18 months for approximately 59,000 Haitians living in the United States.
  
• the Trump administration released new guidelines that allow states to seek waivers to require Medicaid recipients to work – requirements that represent a throwback to rejected racial stereotypes.
  
• the administration announced its decision to bar citizens from Haiti from receiving H2-A and H2-B visas.
• the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education released a new Case Processing Manual (CPM) that creates greater hurdles for people filing complaints and allows dismissal of civil rights complaints based on the number of times an individual has filed.
  
• Attorney General Sessions announced the Justice Department’s ‘school safety’ plan – a plan that civil rights advocates criticized as militarizing schools, overpolicing children, and harming students, disproportionately students of color.
  
• Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to federal housing subsidies that could triple rent for some households in urban communities and make it easier to impose work requirements.
  
• the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would be publishing three separate notices to indefinitely suspend implementation of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
  
• Secretary Ben Carson proposed changes to the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which aimed to combat segregation in housing policy.
  
• the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest opposing a consent decree negotiated by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to overhaul the Chicago Police Department.
  
• the Department of Justice ended its agreement to monitor the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County and the Shelby County Detention Center in Tennessee, which addressed discrimination against Black youth, unsafe conditions, and no due process at hearings.
  

We also went from Obama appointing a record breaking number of BLACK JUDGES to life time court appointments to a record number of the suspected white supremacists being appointed to the highest courts, which is probably the most important thing.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposed the following Trump nominees:

Confirmed:

• Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor (could not support, urged ‘no’ vote)
• Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Michael Brennan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• John Bush, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education
• Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice
• Stuart Kyle Duncan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Allison Eid, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Charles Goodwin, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
• Neil Gorsuch, U.S. Supreme Court
• Britt Grant, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Leonard Steven Grasz, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Marvin Kaplan, National Labor Relations Board
• Gregory Katsas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court
• Jonathan Kobes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Kathy Kraninger, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Joan Larsen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Ken Marcus, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
• Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury
• Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• John Nalbandian, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Mark Norris, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
• Andrew Oldham, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Patrick Pizzella, Deputy Secretary of Labor
• Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State
• David Porter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services (resigned)
• Jeff Sessions, Attorney General
• David Stras, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Holly Teeter, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
• Don Willett, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Also this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-race-schools.html

 

[Pworld297]

Did you read the first two posts? Obama did more for criminal justice reform than any of his predecessors combined.

They either didn't read it or just refuse to believe it bruh. You pointed out a countless number of things like criminal justice and what he did for HBCU's and they still ignored those facts and made the argument that the things he did don't count because it helped everybody lmao! Really?

 

[ORIGINAL NATION]

Unless there is a move toward total separation nothing has changed or been done. We pack the prisons not because we are criminals but because America is a criminal society. Prison is where the losers or rejected are.. White devils can only teach and program us to be carbon copies or successful devils. Even Obama knew he had to support a white reality. They put some one mixed there because it was so easy to control South Africa with Mandela. That is why Obama was chosen.

 

[BitchI'llKillYa]

No facts, only emotion ..

When people say this what they mean is he embarrassed them and they didnt do shit for themselves and it burns their soul to know they never worked as hard and didnt achieve as much as he did.

Progress of the African-American Community During the Obama Administration


Key Accomplishments

Labor Market, Income and Poverty

• The unemployment rate for African Americans peaked at 16.8 percent in March 2010, after experiencing a larger percentage-point increase from its pre-recession average to its peak than the overall unemployment rate did. Since then, the African-American unemployment rate has seen a larger percentage-point decline in the recovery, falling much faster than the overall unemployment rate over the last year.
  
  
• The real median income of black households increased by 4.1 percent between 2014 and 2015.
  
  
• The President enacted permanent expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which together now provide about 2 million African-American working families with an average tax cut of about $1,000 each.
  
  
• A recent report from the Census Bureau shows the remarkable progress that American families have made as the recovery continues to strengthen. Real median household income grew 5.2 percent from 2014 to 2015, the fastest annual growth on record. Income grew for households across the income distribution, with the fastest growth among lower- and middle-income households. The number of people in poverty fell by 3.5 million, leading the poverty rate to fall from 14.8 percent to 13.5 percent, the largest one-year drop since 1968, with even larger improvements including for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and children.
  
  
• The poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999.While the poverty rate fell for across all racial and ethnic groups this year, it fell 2.1 percentage points (p.p.) for African Americans, resulting in 700,000 fewer African Americans in poverty.
  
  
• African American children also made large gains in 2015, with the poverty rate falling 4.2 percentage points and 400,000 fewer children in poverty.

Health

• Since the start of Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period at the end of 2013, the uninsured rate among non-elderly African Americans has declined by more than half.Over that period, about 3 million uninsured nonelderly, African-American adults gained health coverage.
  
  
• Teen pregnancy among African-American women is at an historic low. The birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females has fallen from 60.4 in 2008, before President Obama entered office, to 34.9 in 2014.
  
  
• Life expectancy at birth is the highest it’s ever been for African Americans. In 2014, life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years for African-American males and 78.4 for African-American females, the highest point in the historical series for both genders.

Education

• The high school graduation rate for African-American students is at its highest point in history. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 72.5 percent of African-American public high school students graduated within four years.
  
  
• Since the President took office, over one million more black and Hispanic students enrolled in college.
  
  
• Among African-Americans and Hispanic students 25 and older, high school completion is higher than ever before. Among African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian students 25 and older, Bachelor’s degree attainment is higher than ever before. As of 2015, 88 percent of the African-American population 25 and older had at least a high school degree and 23percent had at least a Bachelor’s degree.

Support for HBCUs

• The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is responsible for funding more than $4 billion for HBCUs each year.
  
  
• Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased significantly between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million.
  
  
• The President’s FY 2017 budget request proposes a new, $30 million competitive grant program, called the HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Innovation for Completion Fund, designed to support innovative and evidence-based, student-centered strategies and interventions to increase the number of low-income students completing degree programs at HBCUs and MSIs.
  
  
• The First in the World (FITW) program provided unique opportunities for HBCUs to compete for grants focused on innovation to drive student success.
  
  
• In 2014, Hampton University received a grant award of $3.5 million.
  
  
• In FY 2015, three FITW awards were made to HBCUs, including Jackson State University ($2.9 million), Delaware State University ($2.6 million) and Spelman College ($2.7 million).
  
  
• While Congress did not fund the program in fiscal year 2016, the President’s 2017 budget request includes $100 million for the First in the World program, with up to $30 million set aside for HBCUs and MSIs.

Criminal Justice

• The incarceration rates for African-American men and women fell during each year of the Obama Administration and are at their lowest points in over two decades. The imprisonment rates for African-American men and women were at their lowest points since the early 1990s and late 1980s, respectively, of 2014, the latest year for which Bureau of Justice Statistics data are available.
  
  
• The number of juveniles in secure detention has been reduced dramatically over the last decade. The number of juveniles committed or detained, a disproportionate number of whom are African American, fell more than 30% between 2007 and 2013.
  
  
• The President has ordered the Justice Department to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles held in federal custody. There are presently no more juveniles being held in restrictive housing federally.

My Brother’s Keeper

• President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative on February 27, 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Nearly 250 communities in all 50 states, 19 Tribal Nations, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to dedicate resources and execute their own strategic plans to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Inspired by the President’s call to action, philanthropic and other private organizations have committed to provide more than $600 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing to expand opportunity for young people – more than tripling the initial private sector investment since 2014.
  
  
• In May 2014, the MBK Task Force gave President Obama nearly 80 recommendations to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by young people, including boys and young men of color. Agencies have been working individually and collectively since to respond to recommendations with federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance. Today, more than 80% of MBK Task Force Recommendations are complete or on track.

Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

• In 2014, the Council on Women and Girls (CWG) launched a specific work stream called “Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color” to ensure that policies and programs across the federal government appropriately take into account the unique obstacles that women and girls of color can face. In fall 2015, CWG released a report that identified five data-driven issue areas where interventions can promote opportunities for success at school, work, and in the community.
  
  
• This work has also inspired independent commitments to advance equity, including a $100 million, 5-year-funding initiative by Prosperity Together—a coalition of women’s foundations—to improve economic prosperity for low-income women and women and girls of color and a $75 million funding commitment by the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research—an affiliation of American colleges, universities, research organizations, publishers and public interest institutions led by Wake Forest University—to support existing and new research efforts about women and girls of color.
  
  
• At the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, eight organizations launched “Young Women’s Initiatives,” place-based, data-driven programs that will focus in on the local needs of young women of color. Those organizations include the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, the Women’s Foundation of California, the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, and the New York Women’s Foundation.

Small Business

• There are 8 million minority-owned firms in the U.S.—a 38% increase since 2007.
  
  
• In early 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the MBK Millennial Entrepreneurs Initiative, which seeks to address the challenges faced by underserved millennials, including boys and young men of color, through self-employment and entrepreneurship. A major component of this effort included the six-part video series, titled “Biz My Way,” which encourages millennials to follow their passion in business.
  
  
• In fiscal year 2015, underserved markets received 32,563 loans totaling $13 billion, compared with 25,799 loans and $10.47 billion in fiscal year 2014, an increase of 26 percent in number of loans and 24 percent in dollar amount.
  
  
• Last year, the SBA issued a new rule that makes most individuals currently on probation or parole eligible for a SBA microloan—a loan of up to $50,000 that helps small businesses start up. And in August 2016, SBA together with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Justine Petersen, launched the Aspire Entrepreneurship Initiative, a $2.1 Million pilot initiative to provide entrepreneurship education and microloans to returning citizens in Detroit, Chicago, Louisville and St. Louis.

Civil Rights Division

• The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division continued to enforce federal law.Over the last eight years, the Division has vigorously protected the civil rights of individuals in housing, lending, employment, voting, education, and disability rights and through hate crimes and law enforcement misconduct prosecutions and law enforcement pattern and practice cases.

African-American Judicial Appointees

• President Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench.
  
  
• This includes 9 African-American circuit court judges.
  
  
• It also includes the appointment of 53 African American district court judges—including 26 African-American women appointed to the federal court, which is more African-American women appointed by any President in history.
  
  
• In total, 19% of the President’s confirmed judges have been African American, compared to 16% under President Bill Clinton and 7% under President George W. Bush.
  
  
• Five states now have their first African-American circuit judge; 10 states now have their first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge; and 3 districts now have their first African-American district judge.
  
  
• Also, the President appointed the first Haitian-American lifetime-appointed federal judge, the first Afro-Caribbean-born district judge, the first African-American female circuit judge in the Sixth Circuit, and the first African-American circuit judge on the First Circuit (who was also the first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge to serve anywhere in the First Circuit).
  
  
• The President is committed to continuing to ensure diversity on the federal bench. This year, the President nominated Myra Selby of Indiana to the Seventh Circuit, Abdul Kallon of Alabama to the Eleventh Circuit, and Rebecca Haywood of Pennsylvania to the Third Circuit. If confirmed, each of these would be a judicial first—Myra Selby would be the first African-American circuit judge from Indiana, Abdul Kallon would be the first African-American circuit judge from Alabama, and Rebecca Haywood would be the first African-American woman on the Third Circuit.In addition, two of the President’s district court nominees—Stephanie Finely and Patricia Timmons-Goodson—would be the first African-American lifetime-appointed federal judges in each of their respective districts, if confirmed.

 

[BitchI'llKillYa]

LGBT had a platform
DACA had a platform
Feminist had a platform

Can you guess what black people had?

Complaints

Our failure to organize and mobilize is the problem.

What black issues were ignored?

I love Obama and will support him through and through but when I have this conversation with family and friends, I frame it like this.

• When he took office he immediately addressed a key female/woman issue: Equal Pay. He did an executive order right out the door.
• For LGBTQ, he, somewhat pushed by Biden leak, opened up to Marriage union, a key issue for them
• For Hispanics, he issued executive order regarding DACA, a key issue for them

So many groups of people had key issues specifically addressed for them. The original poster is right that black people benefited from many of his policies, but all people benefited. You might consider My brother's keeper as his african american initiative but it was no where on the level equal to the others.

I repeat, I'm not hating like Cornell West and Tavis Smiley, I just need to be educated on how I missed that key legislative issue for blacks.

 

[BitchI'llKillYa]

 

[HeathCliff]

They either didn't read it or just refuse to believe it bruh. You pointed out a countess number of things like criminal justice and what he did for HBCU's and they still ignored those facts and made the argument that the things he did don't count because it helped everybody lmao! Really?

This is always the case. They just really need to be honest and say "Obama didn't do what I wanted him to do for black folks" and just leave it at that.

 

[COINTELPRO]

1. The achievements are numerous which I support, but he tried to leave this backdoor that would have led to centralized manufacturing in low-wage countries. This is has been the Democrats strategy of winning votes from progressives while appeasing their corporate donors.

2. He gave racial cover by supporting racist policies in Latin America and the Middle East.

3. Another Democrat strategy to appeal to white voters is to support housing policies that racially stratify housing based on income. Pres. Obama supported no initiatives to integrate housing based on income, housing effects integration into schools. Obamacare made it worse by forcing you to buy an expensive medical insurance policy.

4. He let the banks make the determination on whether to modify loans rather than providing direct assistance to borrowers from the federal government. Through quantitative easing the federal government provided direct assistance to financial institutions. Yet use this Reaganesque trickle down help for borrowers.

Pres. Obama pandered to and was racial cover for whites, we can study the tactics used during his presidency and develop countermeasures in the future.

 

[mangobob79]

LET ME REPLAY THE QUESTION ... What laws could Obama have passed that were specific to black people and black people only?
all answers welcomed,

and bare in mind , he could barely get obamacare being that passing universal healthcare or single payer (things that HELP EVERYONE even the ones who objected to it ) was gonna get blocked and fought till heaven comes , so the only option he had was the watered down obamacare..
but i await y'alls smarter ones answer, i really wanna learn

 

[Entrepronegro]

 

[BitchI'llKillYa]

What would you have done?

Did they start gettin killed in 08? Or had that been an issue

Was he the mayor of Chicago? The governor of Illinois? What is it he should have done to force the actual people responsible for that CITY to do their jobs?

I humbly await your paws n claws response

 

[Soul On Ice]

The problem with "A rising tide lifting all boats" thing is this.
If some people are in a cruise ship, some yacht, some are in a skiffs ,some canoes; and I'm in a boat made of innertubes+scrap wood+duct tape (and being chased by sharks btw), how is a rising tide going to help me?

I need you pull me off that scrap heap and give me a Blanket first. Then give me something for this scurvy I got. Some sort of dry land to call my own (you see where I'm going lol).
Them other people already floating and dry .

 

[Big Tex]

LET ME REPLAY THE QUESTION ... What laws could Obama have passed that were specific to black people and black people only?
all answers welcomed,

and bare in mind , he could barely get obamacare being that passing universal healthcare or single payer (things that HELP EVERYONE even the ones who objected to it ) was gonna get blocked and fought till heaven comes , so the only option he had was the watered down obamacare..
but i await y'alls smarter ones answer, i really wanna learn

I’ve been asking that question for two years. The answer is always “all these other groups got stuff” When you mention none of that stuff was specfic group only and most of it just gave peopl ethe same rights everyone else has - not new specific rights, folks start name calling and eject.

 

[mangobob79]

I’ve been asking that question for two years. The answer is always “all these other groups got stuff” When you mention none of that stuff was specfic group only and most of it just gave peopl ethe same rights everyone else has - not new specific rights, folks start name calling and eject.

2 YEARS ! 2 YEARS ! 2 YEARS WE BEEN ASKING

 

[THE DRIZZY]

None. This is bigger than policy. Nothing short of a revolution can make black people whole.

The only way bruh. To keep trying to integrate into a system that does not value you is insanity.

 

[playahaitian]

Ive heard brorgers and sisters give the damn CLINTONS more credit than Obama.

 

[THE DRIZZY]

Ive heard brorgers and sisters give the damn CLINTONS more credit than Obama.

Clinton was lucky he was in office when the tech boom hit in the 90s. Otherwise he would not be memorable.

 

[Soul On Ice]

I love Obama and will support him through and through but when I have this conversation with family and friends, I frame it like this.

• When he took office he immediately addressed a key female/woman issue: Equal Pay. He did an executive order right out the door.
• For LGBTQ, he, somewhat pushed by Biden leak, opened up to Marriage union, a key issue for them
• For Hispanics, he issued executive order regarding DACA, a key issue for them

So many groups of people had key issues specifically addressed for them. The original poster is right that black people benefited from many of his policies, but all people benefited. You might consider My brother's keeper as his african american initiative but it was no where on the level equal to the others.

I repeat, I'm not hating like Cornell West and Tavis Smiley, I just need to be educated on how I missed that key legislative issue for blacks.

If an Oompa Loompa got elected as president of Willy Wonka Land and the condition of the Loompas hardly moved at all, but Willy got most of the benefits, then the Loompas would be right to ask questions and demands for the next possible president.

 

[mangobob79]

I’m ok with trump winning a second term because I don’t know what black people are scared of. His administration and Obama administration are pretty much the same.

THIS ^^^ IS ONE OF THE REASONS BLACK FOLKS GONNA COLLECTIVELY HAVE TO FIGHT TO EVEN GET AHEAD ON ISSUES THAT BENEFIT US EVEN IF IT BENEFITS OTHER FOLKS , SUCH A CHILDISH ARGUMENT... I WANT MY OWN ICE CREAM AND I DONT WANT ANYONE ELSE GETTING ICE CREAM WHEN ITS MY TURN TO GET ICE CREAM BECOS I NEED TO FEEL SPECIAL ABOUT IT AND TO SHIT ON OTHER FOLKS WHILE DOING IT

 

[mangobob79]

So what magic policies were going to fix all that in just 8 years?

CRICKETS........

 

[mangobob79]

Obama didn't act on rescheduling marijuana but his directions to the justice department to not interfere with medical and legal marijuana in states like cali and Colorado is what makes legal marijuana federally much more viable than ever before.

And doing more than ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES COMBINED is nothing to sneeze at. Obama literally granted clemency to more people (and BLACK PEOPLE) THAN ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED. Acting like that doesn't take balls is the understatement of the century.

THANK U ! COS..FOLKS LIKE TO ACT DUMB

 

[34real]

Why can't we just leave it at that instead of acting like he did some profound shit for the community?

Cause most don't want to think for themselves and mess up a great moment in America's history and tell the truth that Obama was nothing more than a puppit that strings were being pulled left and right and to his defense either side wasn't playing fair but it's politics,if they like you too much their bound to hate you later.
Obama was a token,he made history but that what's going to be written in the books and that's all.....He came out of know where and gained what takes people years to gain that type of political popularity in the matter of no time and he had a positive attitude,what's everyone to like him and he's a nice approachable guy which is what sold him to us and the rest of America who were sick of war,the economy and wanted Bush's reign to end so we got our first black president.

Politicians do a great job of using black folk when they want and need the votes,even the black one's.They show up to local events,black church's and even help the homeless and as soon as they get what they want their off to washington and they forget about you,me,the people in their very own communities that helped them and like Obama you relocate because you don't and can't come back to face those same people again,people you considered friends and spiritual advisers to you and your family......you went in with no characterless and you left broken in spirit but you can,keep shaking hands and kissing babies but I think it's an act and if he had to do it all over again he would do things a lot different.....Michele has more balls than he does,they greet her before him

 

[RunawaySlave]

Can somebody please answer this man's question?

REPARATIONS for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
REPARATIONS never delivered to thousands of black families from Reconstruction period. (Fuck an apology give me 40 acres)

Not saying Obama alone could have done this but this is an issue that is a black issue ALONE

 

[mangobob79]

REPARATIONS for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
REPARATIONS never delivered to thousands of black families from Reconstruction period. (Fuck an apology give me 40 acres)

Not saying Obama alone could have done this but this is an issue that is a black issue ALONE

okay... now, when did YOU organize to bring that issue to the senate floor ?
who did u organize, galvanize ,rally together with ?
and do u sincerely think Obama would /could get "reparations for black folks" when they couldnt even vote for HEALTHCARE that would HELP THEM!

 

[kogalee muhammad]

The O.P. is a white supremacist devil suspect until proven otherwise.

 

[deputy dawg]

can you provide numbers & sources?


otherwise this is just

 

[BGLR1212000]

What laws could Obama have passed that were specific to black people and black people only?

Obama granted clemency to more blacks than any previous president COMBINED.

He changed mandatory sentencing guidelines for rock and powder cocaine, something that disproportionally affected black people the most.

He gave grants to HBCU's.

He moved to close private federal prisons.

He initiated federal investigations of police stations involved in unfair treatment of black people, including the Ferguson (Mike Brown), Chicago, and Baltimore (Freddie Gray) city police departments. More investigations than ANY OF HIS PREDECESSORS.

He appointed more black judges to lifetime positions on the court than any of his predecessors. And would have appointment even more if it weren't for republican obstruction.

Complaining that Obama didn't do anything specifically for blacks, even though his policies significantly helped blacks, but others as well, is like complaining that your parents kept you and your siblings fed, but never fed you and only you specifically.

It's a trash argument.

I'm pretty sure HBCUs all receive grants from the Feds. I also know the schools have to apply for them, I dont know the approval process tho.

 

[playa-exodus]

I'm pretty sure HBCUs all receive grants from the Feds. I also know the schools have to apply for them, I dont know the approval process tho.

Obama increased funding significantly

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-relea...-historically-black-colleges-and-universities

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. will speak at the 2016 National Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Week Conference, highlighting the value of HBCUs and the importance of advancing their legacy in student success. Over the course of 7 years, the Obama Administration has invested more than $4 billion in HBCUs, because these institutions are vital engines of economic growth and proven ladders of advancement for generations of African Americans.

Under the Obama Administration, 1 million more African-American and Latino students have enrolled in college. What’s more, black and Hispanic students earned more than 270,000 more undergraduate degrees in 2013-2014 than in 2008-2009. This Administration remains focused on continuing to increase the number of students who successfully complete college. To that end, the Department has worked to make new opportunities available to HBCUs.

Federal funding to HBCUs has grown each year since 2009. Through the Higher Education Act, HBCUs received a $17 million funding increase this year—the largest increase for the federal Strengthening HBCUs program in six years. And President Obama’s FY 2017 budget seeks to maintain and strengthen these opportunities for HBCUs to build their capacity. The FY 2017 budget proposes $85 million in mandatory funding to HBCUs, an increase of $5 million from FY 2016, plus an additional $244.7 million in discretionary funds for Title III.

The Administration has also fought for and won a historic commitment to fully fund Pell Grants and expand student aid for millions of low-income students. Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased significantly between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million. This year, President Obama announced a plan to make sure that Pell Grants are fully funded, including inflationary adjustments, and used strategically by students to reduce time and cost for receiving a terminal degree. The President’s 2017 budget also proposes a $30 million HBCU and Minority Serving Institution Innovation for Completion Fund, to help students from low-income backgrounds overcome challenges and persist through graduation day.

The White House Initiative on HBCUs has undertaken robust outreach efforts to increase HBCUs’ awareness of and participation in federal programs, best practices in student success and to highlight the talents of HBCU students. For example, during the Obama Administration, the Initiative launched the HBCU All-Stars program, recognizing HBCU undergraduate, graduate, and professional students for their accomplishments in academics, leadership, and civic engagement. Over the course of the year, the HBCU All-Stars serve as ambassadors of the Initiative and advocates for the value of education and completion.

Today, the Obama Administration is announcing:

• The United Negro College Fund and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities will host the HBCU Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship Summit in Silicon Valley, Nov. 16-20.
• The Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program has partnered with the HBCU Initiative to showcase the talented young men and women produced by our nation’s HBCUs with the launch of a new program, HBCUs in LA Internship.

From the earliest days at HBCUs, the institutions have evolved into complex modern campuses with interdisciplinary offerings, centers of innovation, federal partnerships and academic centers focused on student success. Students and families recognize the unique opportunities that HBCUs can offer to pursue educational excellence. At campuses across the country, HBCUs are seeing rising enrollment and interest in their programs - which represents an important opportunity to build on the rich history at those universities.

• HBCUs are leading the way in college completion for Pell Grant recipients. Howard University and Spelman College were listed in the Department’s report Fulfilling the Promise, Serving the Needamong institutions notable for enrolling and graduating Pell Grant recipients. Morehouse College and North Carolina A&T State also earned mentions for using innovative and research-based approaches to improve completion rates.
• HBCUs are innovating to ensure that students complete college. In our recent competitive grant programs and experimental sites HBCUs have been selected. HBCU recipients of federal First in the World grants – Hampton University, Jackson State University, Delaware State University and Spelman College – have collectively received approximately $12 million to test strategies to increase college readiness, persistence, and success for high need students. In fiscal year 2015 alone, three of our 18 First in the World grants went to HBCUs.
• HBCUs are providing Second Chances as part of the Department’s Second Chance Pell effort, a $30 million dollar pilot to support college access for incarcerated students. Thus far, Langston College, Wiley College, and Shorter College have been selected to participate and are working to expand educational opportunities for men and women seeking to turn their lives around and earn a degree.
• HBCUs are providing high school students the opportunity to access federal Pell Grants to take dual enrollment courses provided by colleges and high schools through the Department’s Dual Enrollment Experiment. Benedict College and Jackson State University were selected to participate in this experiment, which is a promising approach to improve academic outcomes for students, particularly those from low-income backgrounds.

The Obama Administration is tremendously proud of our work to support HBCUs and their students and recognize that there is work ahead to make sure all students have the opportunities they deserve. One effort integral to this work is President Obama’s America’s College Promise proposal plan to provide two years of community college free for hard-working students. America’s College Promise also provides grants to four-year HBCUs and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to provide more new or transfer low-income students with up to two years at a four-year college at zero or significantly reduced tuition.

And this year, the President proposed the creation of a $30 million dollar Innovation for Completion Fund for HBCUs and MSIs that would help students from low-income backgrounds overcome challenges and persist through graduation day. The fund would build on the work underway at Hampton University, Jackson State University, Delaware State University, and Spelman College to develop innovative programs and evidence-based practices that help students from all backgrounds achieve at a high level. Their projects—selected from hundreds of applications—were awarded more than $11 million in grants combined through the First in the World program to promote even more opportunities for students on campus.

The National HBCU Conference runs through Oct. 26 and provides campus leaders, students, business and foundation officials an opportunity to convene over two days to discuss the most pressing policy and educational issues and to dialogue about the future of HBCUs.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Flint water

Trayvon martin

Hillary Clinton

 

[K Luv]

He could of done the 40 acres and a mule

 

[the_male_feminist]

This shit again........the short answer is his cons out weigh the pros.


It is like taking a balacing scale and putting a grain of rice on one and then a fucking elephant on the other.


Flint water crisis


Yall remember how he solved that........we to flint and took a drink

On national t.v


When something bad happens under obama watch yall blame the senetate and the congress and when a fucking lost puppy is found in iowa we say "oh that was obama that did that".

Fuck that bitch. Obama is black but my president is green.

Progress of the African-American Community During the Obama Administration


Key Accomplishments

Labor Market, Income and Poverty

• The unemployment rate for African Americans peaked at 16.8 percent in March 2010, after experiencing a larger percentage-point increase from its pre-recession average to its peak than the overall unemployment rate did. Since then, the African-American unemployment rate has seen a larger percentage-point decline in the recovery, falling much faster than the overall unemployment rate over the last year.
  
  
• The real median income of black households increased by 4.1 percent between 2014 and 2015.
  
  
• The President enacted permanent expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which together now provide about 2 million African-American working families with an average tax cut of about $1,000 each.
  
  
• A recent report from the Census Bureau shows the remarkable progress that American families have made as the recovery continues to strengthen. Real median household income grew 5.2 percent from 2014 to 2015, the fastest annual growth on record. Income grew for households across the income distribution, with the fastest growth among lower- and middle-income households. The number of people in poverty fell by 3.5 million, leading the poverty rate to fall from 14.8 percent to 13.5 percent, the largest one-year drop since 1968, with even larger improvements including for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and children.
  
  
• The poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999.While the poverty rate fell for across all racial and ethnic groups this year, it fell 2.1 percentage points (p.p.) for African Americans, resulting in 700,000 fewer African Americans in poverty.
  
  
• African American children also made large gains in 2015, with the poverty rate falling 4.2 percentage points and 400,000 fewer children in poverty.

Health

• Since the start of Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period at the end of 2013, the uninsured rate among non-elderly African Americans has declined by more than half.Over that period, about 3 million uninsured nonelderly, African-American adults gained health coverage.
  
  
• Teen pregnancy among African-American women is at an historic low. The birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females has fallen from 60.4 in 2008, before President Obama entered office, to 34.9 in 2014.
  
  
• Life expectancy at birth is the highest it’s ever been for African Americans. In 2014, life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years for African-American males and 78.4 for African-American females, the highest point in the historical series for both genders.

Education

• The high school graduation rate for African-American students is at its highest point in history. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 72.5 percent of African-American public high school students graduated within four years.
  
  
• Since the President took office, over one million more black and Hispanic students enrolled in college.
  
  
• Among African-Americans and Hispanic students 25 and older, high school completion is higher than ever before. Among African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian students 25 and older, Bachelor’s degree attainment is higher than ever before. As of 2015, 88 percent of the African-American population 25 and older had at least a high school degree and 23percent had at least a Bachelor’s degree.

Support for HBCUs

• The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is responsible for funding more than $4 billion for HBCUs each year.
  
  
• Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased significantly between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million.
  
  
• The President’s FY 2017 budget request proposes a new, $30 million competitive grant program, called the HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Innovation for Completion Fund, designed to support innovative and evidence-based, student-centered strategies and interventions to increase the number of low-income students completing degree programs at HBCUs and MSIs.
  
  
• The First in the World (FITW) program provided unique opportunities for HBCUs to compete for grants focused on innovation to drive student success.
  
  
• In 2014, Hampton University received a grant award of $3.5 million.
  
  
• In FY 2015, three FITW awards were made to HBCUs, including Jackson State University ($2.9 million), Delaware State University ($2.6 million) and Spelman College ($2.7 million).
  
  
• While Congress did not fund the program in fiscal year 2016, the President’s 2017 budget request includes $100 million for the First in the World program, with up to $30 million set aside for HBCUs and MSIs.

Criminal Justice

• The incarceration rates for African-American men and women fell during each year of the Obama Administration and are at their lowest points in over two decades. The imprisonment rates for African-American men and women were at their lowest points since the early 1990s and late 1980s, respectively, of 2014, the latest year for which Bureau of Justice Statistics data are available.
  
  
• The number of juveniles in secure detention has been reduced dramatically over the last decade. The number of juveniles committed or detained, a disproportionate number of whom are African American, fell more than 30% between 2007 and 2013.
  
  
• The President has ordered the Justice Department to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles held in federal custody. There are presently no more juveniles being held in restrictive housing federally.

My Brother’s Keeper

• President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative on February 27, 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Nearly 250 communities in all 50 states, 19 Tribal Nations, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to dedicate resources and execute their own strategic plans to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Inspired by the President’s call to action, philanthropic and other private organizations have committed to provide more than $600 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing to expand opportunity for young people – more than tripling the initial private sector investment since 2014.
  
  
• In May 2014, the MBK Task Force gave President Obama nearly 80 recommendations to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by young people, including boys and young men of color. Agencies have been working individually and collectively since to respond to recommendations with federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance. Today, more than 80% of MBK Task Force Recommendations are complete or on track.

Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

• In 2014, the Council on Women and Girls (CWG) launched a specific work stream called “Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color” to ensure that policies and programs across the federal government appropriately take into account the unique obstacles that women and girls of color can face. In fall 2015, CWG released a report that identified five data-driven issue areas where interventions can promote opportunities for success at school, work, and in the community.
  
  
• This work has also inspired independent commitments to advance equity, including a $100 million, 5-year-funding initiative by Prosperity Together—a coalition of women’s foundations—to improve economic prosperity for low-income women and women and girls of color and a $75 million funding commitment by the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research—an affiliation of American colleges, universities, research organizations, publishers and public interest institutions led by Wake Forest University—to support existing and new research efforts about women and girls of color.
  
  
• At the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, eight organizations launched “Young Women’s Initiatives,” place-based, data-driven programs that will focus in on the local needs of young women of color. Those organizations include the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, the Women’s Foundation of California, the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, and the New York Women’s Foundation.

Small Business

• There are 8 million minority-owned firms in the U.S.—a 38% increase since 2007.
  
  
• In early 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the MBK Millennial Entrepreneurs Initiative, which seeks to address the challenges faced by underserved millennials, including boys and young men of color, through self-employment and entrepreneurship. A major component of this effort included the six-part video series, titled “Biz My Way,” which encourages millennials to follow their passion in business.
  
  
• In fiscal year 2015, underserved markets received 32,563 loans totaling $13 billion, compared with 25,799 loans and $10.47 billion in fiscal year 2014, an increase of 26 percent in number of loans and 24 percent in dollar amount.
  
  
• Last year, the SBA issued a new rule that makes most individuals currently on probation or parole eligible for a SBA microloan—a loan of up to $50,000 that helps small businesses start up. And in August 2016, SBA together with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Justine Petersen, launched the Aspire Entrepreneurship Initiative, a $2.1 Million pilot initiative to provide entrepreneurship education and microloans to returning citizens in Detroit, Chicago, Louisville and St. Louis.

Civil Rights Division

• The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division continued to enforce federal law.Over the last eight years, the Division has vigorously protected the civil rights of individuals in housing, lending, employment, voting, education, and disability rights and through hate crimes and law enforcement misconduct prosecutions and law enforcement pattern and practice cases.

African-American Judicial Appointees

• President Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench.
  
  
• This includes 9 African-American circuit court judges.
  
  
• It also includes the appointment of 53 African American district court judges—including 26 African-American women appointed to the federal court, which is more African-American women appointed by any President in history.
  
  
• In total, 19% of the President’s confirmed judges have been African American, compared to 16% under President Bill Clinton and 7% under President George W. Bush.
  
  
• Five states now have their first African-American circuit judge; 10 states now have their first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge; and 3 districts now have their first African-American district judge.
  
  
• Also, the President appointed the first Haitian-American lifetime-appointed federal judge, the first Afro-Caribbean-born district judge, the first African-American female circuit judge in the Sixth Circuit, and the first African-American circuit judge on the First Circuit (who was also the first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge to serve anywhere in the First Circuit).
  
  
• The President is committed to continuing to ensure diversity on the federal bench. This year, the President nominated Myra Selby of Indiana to the Seventh Circuit, Abdul Kallon of Alabama to the Eleventh Circuit, and Rebecca Haywood of Pennsylvania to the Third Circuit. If confirmed, each of these would be a judicial first—Myra Selby would be the first African-American circuit judge from Indiana, Abdul Kallon would be the first African-American circuit judge from Alabama, and Rebecca Haywood would be the first African-American woman on the Third Circuit.In addition, two of the President’s district court nominees—Stephanie Finely and Patricia Timmons-Goodson—would be the first African-American lifetime-appointed federal judges in each of their respective districts, if confirmed.