The second article below by a Black writer about the CBC getting tired of waiting on Pres. Obama to do something about Black unemployment, is self-explanatory, but it is also unbalanced. It's not un-balanced because it criticizes Obama's inaction on the chronic Black unemployment rate; I've done that as well. But, unlike my criticism, this article doesn't even touch the facts that the Democrats in Congress have introduced over 40 jobs bills (some with specific emphasis to relive the depression level Black unemployment rate), including the one introduced last week by the Democratic congresswoman from IL that would put 2.2 MILLION people to work! Nor does it mention the facts that ALL of those bills are stuck in committees, being blocked by the CONS, and likely none of them will ever see the light of day! Further, the writer doesn't mention the fact that the CONS have not introduced a single jobs bill and probably won't introduce one no matter how deep the total economy gets into trouble. And we know why, because to do so would make Obama, who says he is a Black man, look good. We have already seen how far the CONS will go to wreck Obama, and this country, in the recent debt-ceiling wars.
President Obama's Unemployment Inaction Puts Approval Among Blacks At Risk (VIDEO)
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is the latest African-American politician or public figure to call out President Barack Obama on his lack of attention to the nightmarish unemployment rates in the black community, his most reliable supporters.
Speaking at a jobs forum in Detroit on Tuesday, Waters blasted the president's bus tour through the country's heartland, a tour that has so far skipped African-American communities.
"We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community," she said. "We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is," she continued. "We're supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y'all, getting tired."
At a jobs fair in Atlanta this morning, Waters continued to call out Obama. "There is a growing frustration in this country and in minority communities because the unemployment rates are so high," Waters said, according to the Los Angeles Times. She said that home foreclosures and an ever-widening wealth gap between blacks and whites was "creating frustration and, yes, some anger" in the black community. "The president is going to have to fight and he is going to have to fight hard," she said.
While Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have been the president's most vocal black antagonists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Waters and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), have also come out recently and expressed their discontent.
Last month during the Congressional Black Caucus' "Out of Poverty Caucus," Conyers said "I've got nothing from the White House," and that "We want him to know … we've had it. We want him to come out on our side and advocate."
Waters' and Conyers' very public pronouncements could signal a tonal shift in the relationship between the president and black communities nationwide. But what does all the fuss really mean? Will Obama's supporters abandon him at the polls next go round?
First Posted: 8/18/11 04:30 PM ET Updated: 8/18/11 04:30 PM ET