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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed an all-star lineup of performers to the East Room of the White House yesterday to pay tribute to the music of the civil rights era.

The grand ballroom was transformed into a concert hall packed with members of Obama’s Cabinet, Congress, civil rights leaders and students for a program that will air on public television later this week for Black History Month.

Queen Latifah sang her rendition of the Marvin Gaye classic “What’s Going On.” And Yolanda Adams gave a spirited rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”

Obama says the civil rights movement “was a movement sustained by music.”

Also performing were Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Natalie Cole, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend.

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    Mrs. Adams, you are right, a “change gon come” but not from this negro! Obama is showing all the duplicity of a seasoned veteran politician (someone with 20+ years in the game). After railing against CEO bonuses a few months back, calling them outrageous, and even creating a “PAY CZAR” to reign it in (and fooling you negroes into thinking he was doing something about it) he NOW states that he doesn’t begrudge the huge bonuses that Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan CEO) and Lloyd Blankfein (GOLDMAN SACHS CEO) received, and stated that he is not against hard work, and success because that is part of the free market system. This statement is laughable on so many levels, but mainly, there is NO free market system in the US right now, and hell, hasn’t been for centuries, and secondly, these men were able to obtain these bonuses from tax payer funded bailouts, lying, exploitation and casino style investing, NOT HARD WORK!!! Obama is showing who he truly is (like most of us knew he would eventually)just another bought and paid for President, like all the rest that came before him

    WAKE UP!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sophisticated46/ Sophisticated46

    It would appear to me that you need to obtain all the facts before DISPLAY your entire level of ignorance regarding the president and what he said/believes. Obama railed against the banks that received bailout out and chose big bonuses over paying back tax payers as a priority. He has ALWAYS said he believes in free market and personal success, just not when your priorities are at the People’s expense. It is people like you who wade in the back ground waiting for the moment to attack or begrudge another man’s, (black man’s) success, which speaks volumes about you and your values. President Obama is president to all people, but he has been our country’s greatest contributor in providing what African American’s need. EDUCATION…which will lead to JOBS AND OPTIONS. He believes in a hand up, with a hand out as a temporary means only when needed. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

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