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Blacks gripe about lack of money, parity -- not the president
yahoo contributor network buried this story all the way in the back of some blog and called it "old news" in the web address. i guess if it has nothing to do with the majority it is of little interest to them. whatever. Amplify’d from old.news.yahoo.com COMMENTARY | The Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner address by President Barack Obama last weekend has been a long time coming. President Obama told us all throughout the 2008 presidential campaign election that he was tough but many didn't understand how tough. We don't have any guidance on the issue of what can happen during the term of the nation's first black president. As an Obama supporter, I had grand ideas and definitions to frame the first black presidency. However, I was just glad I did not have to explain to my then-9-year-old son why a black man had never been president. Internationally, people realized Obama is the American president and our needs in this country are his first priority. Some di
CA college bake sale a teachable moment
This weekend on TJ Holmes' CNN show, there was an interesting segment on a young man, a college group and a college bake sale. It wasn't that baked goods are fattening but the price list for said baked goods. White men pay $2 for a cookie as opposed to a Native American woman who would pay nothing. Ask a NA woman the last time she got anything of value that she wanted for free. Right. I guess the point is white men have to pay for every other minority including women, are at the top of the pecking order or are better than everyone else, deserve to not have to consider anyone other than themselves, etc. The bake sale price list says lots of things this young man is in agreement with and he doesn't even know it. That is just how young he is. Look at what this doe-eyed little guy is admitting. It's would be almost sweet if it wasn't so painfully wrong. Instead of getting on the college student for verbalizing a long standing notion, why don't we teach several valu
Everybody has to pay their fair share
Today the President spoke on the American Jobs Act and for how it will be financed. It will will be a balance of restructuring social programs, the tax code and rescinding temporary tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and wealthiest American companies because they don't need them anymore. The GOP is fussy about the tax breaks because they want the wealthiest to continue to get them. The President said it s time to live within our means without starving the poorest Americans in the process. Amplify’d from www.whitehouse.gov A week ago today, I sent Congress the American Jobs Act. It’s a plan that will lead to new jobs for teachers, for construction workers, for veterans, and for the unemployed. It will cut taxes for every small business owner and virtually every working man and woman in America. And the proposals in this jobs bill are the kinds that have been supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past. So there shouldn’t be any reason for Congress to drag its feet.
Reexamining relationships
Often as the seasons begin to change, people do as well. They begin to reexamine relationships. One word of caution: Do not bother to reexamine your relationship unless you are willing to (A) include your own self-assessment in your examination and find out what you want and (B) willing to stand by your decisions. Do not be the person who digs up his or her yard to install a pool before calling the pool company. Do not put the cart before the horse or you will end up backing down and apologizing and doubting yourself. Know thyself first before examining anyone or anything else. You may have changed over time. Amplify’d from yahoo.match.com Essentially, men date the wrong women for many of the same reasons women date the wrong men: external pressure from their friends and family, loneliness and insecurity, believing that he can fix any faults she might have. However, after talking to several men who wanted to share their relationship stories gone wrong, we discovered that there are a fe
"If you love me, then help me pass this bill."
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/0... President Obama kept it real in North Carolina Wednesday when addressing a huge crowd about the American Jobs Act. See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1cw0x
Young women find out the hard way: Natural hair is not a man magnet
I just read an article on Shine about the writer's friends growing out their relaxers and finding that black men are not attracted to the look. Well African American men generally like European standards of beauty -- with a few exceptions but we can't all date the handful of men who like African standards of beauty. We usually date local and available. Anyway, join the discussion! Also, women who are stunning in every other way can go natural because they are stunning and do not need hair to make them beautiful. I need my hair! http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=o9hqq5lfn1qdrigsf4af39jkms Amplify’d from shine.yahoo.com "Natural hair is not a man magnet" I’ve watched them go through as many hairdos as they’ve gone through cars, boyfriends, and addresses, and individually make the transition to natural hair. They wear it in different but fabulous ways: big, wild ‘fros, short and curly cuts, coils and two-strand twists. Creativity with their locks has also be
Young women find out the hard way: Natural hair is not a man magnet
I just read an article on Shine about the writer's friends growing out their relaxers and finding that black men are not attracted to the look. Well African American men generally like European standards of beauty -- with a few exceptions but we can't all date the handful of men who like African standards of beauty. We usually date local and available. Anyway, join the discussion! Also, women who are stunning in every other way can go natural because they are stunning and do not need hair to make them beautiful. I need my hair! Amplify’d from shine.yahoo.com "Natural hair is not a man magnet" I’ve watched them go through as many hairdos as they’ve gone through cars, boyfriends, and addresses, and individually make the transition to natural hair. They wear it in different but fabulous ways: big, wild ‘fros, short and curly cuts, coils and two-strand twists. Creativity with their locks has also been somewhat of sociocultural experiment. My friends feel like they don’t g
"If You Love Me, Help Me Pass This Bill!"
Wednesday that is what President Obama told a crowd in North Carolina while promoting The American Jobs Act. He asked everyone who cared about the country's future, joblessness and their own pocket, to call their appointed legislators. Call your US congressman and your US Senator and let them know you want the American Jobs Act passed! (because I really, really need a job--this is a laboroflove) http://ping.fm/nE8mm http://ping.fm/YbHjf
EU: "Contagion has spread across the markets"
Two French banks were downgraded Wednesday and two are on review. Questions about a Greek default soon to be answered. Amplify’d from www.reuters.com European finance ministers have been warned confidentially of the danger of a renewed credit crunch as a "systemic" crisis in euro zone sovereign debt spills over to banks, according to documents obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. In a report prepared for ministers meeting in Poland on Friday and Saturday, senior EU officials said the 17-nation currency area faces a "risk of a vicious circle between sovereign debt, bank funding and negative growth." "While tensions in sovereign debt markets have intensified and bank funding risks have increased over the summer, contagion has spread across markets and countries and the crisis has become systemic," the influential Economic and Financial Committee said. The report highlighted European policymakers' challenge to restore confidence as the leaders of Germany,
Thirty percent of adults live with parents
The U.S. Census Bureau says about 30 percent of adults live in a "doubled-up" household because they have lost their home or job and can't make it on their own. Young adults have been affected the most, the Census Bureau said. Amplify’d from blogs.census.gov Young adults were especially hard-hit, with 5.9 million people ages 25 to 34 living in their parents’ household in 2011, up from 4.7 million before the recession. That left 14.2 percent of young adults living in their parents’ households in March 2011, up more than two percentage points over the period. All in all, 61.7 million adults, or 27.7 percent, were doubled-up in 2007, rising to 69.2 million, or 30.0 percent, in 2011. These young adults who lived with their parents had an official poverty rate of only 8.4 percent, since the income of their entire family is compared with the poverty threshold. If their poverty status were determined by their own income, 45.3 percent would have had income falling below the pover
Census marks rising rates of US poverty
A US Census report Tuesday more citizens are poor now. The report states that current welfare regulations aren't helpful to the newly poor. Amplify’d from www.msnbc.msn.com “Clearly the safety net has helped, but it’s got holes in it,” said Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former White House economist. With the unemployment rate stuck stubbornly over 9 percent, the poverty rate in the United States climbed to 15.1 percent last year — the highest level since 1993 — as the number of impoverished Americans swelled to a record 46.2 million, the Census report said. The rate would be even higher without a variety of government programs intended to blunt the impact of the worst recession since the 1930s. The Census estimated that the extension of unemployment benefits enacted in 2009, for example, helped another 3.2 million remain above the poverty line, which the government defines as an annual income of $22,314 for a family of four. Last
Tea Party/Wall Street boost Perry poll numbers
We know by now who backs Tea Party members -- big money Wall Street. Amplify’d from blogs.reuters.com Texas Governor Rick Perry has vaulted into the lead among Republicans vying for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election bid, according to several new polls. And he may have the Tea Party to thank for it. A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday showed Perry strongly favored by Republicans and independent voters who lean Republican. Among the declared candidates, Perry has 32 percent support, followed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at 18 percent, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann at 12 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 7 percent, Texas Congressman Ron Paul at 6 percent and the rest of the field in the low single digits. Read more at blogs.reuters.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1ctiu