African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
Julianne MalveauxIndeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.
Julianne MalveauxI always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.
Julianne MalveauxThe president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
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