Sunday, October 28, 2012
Is There a Price to a Black President?
The October 28th New York Times' Sunday Review Section includes an opinion piece titled "The Price of a Black President." After reading the article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/the-price-of-a-black-president.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&ref=opinion) and summarizing it in the blog, state your opinion about the article and the topic and be ready to share your views in front of your classmates for extra credit points.
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This article, is mainly about what the current Democratic president(Barrack Obama)is doing for his constituency and it raises the bigger question of whether we still expect or should demand that our government take steps to fight racial inequality and injustice. It also encourages criticism of the Obama presidency. Furthermore, the author emphasizes the fact that Obama's State of the Union address in 2011 was the first by any president since 1948 to not mention poverty or the poor, citing a political scientist, named Daniel Q. Gillion, who found that Mr. Obama, in his first two years in office, talked about race less than any Democratic president had since 1961. In conclusion, the author criticizes the president on having little to say about the condition of African-Americans or concerns specific to blacks.
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