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Washington — The thorny intersection of race and the economy topped the political agenda Wednesday as President Obama huddled with key African-American leaders at the White House.

Obama held what has been dubbed an “urban economy summit” in the Oval Office with a group including the Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, and National Urban League President Marc Morial.

National Council of Negro Women Chairwoman Dorothy Height, who is 97 years old, declined an invitation to attend due to the winter storm pounding the Washington area.

The group urged Obama to spend money initially reserved for bank bailouts on areas suffering from chronically high unemployment, according to sources familiar with the attendees’ plans.

The investments should be “place-based rather than race-based,” Jealous said.

The nation’s first African-American president remains extremely popular among black voters. A number of African-American leaders, however, are increasingly upset with what they perceive as the federal government’s inattention to the needs of economically hard-hit minority communities.

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

    WTF
    this nlgger got an umbrella 4 some snow cause of his hair….and this is who Berry invited along with 3 other parasites

    “A black man has no justice that white man must honor”

    I kno my post will not be the last but can anyone inform me of the
    Articles of Association??

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

    This is nothing but a photo-op designed to get black people to go to the polls for Democrats this fall. Why all of a sudden is black unemployment making it to the front page now; he should have a plan for black unemployment in his back pocket when he first stepped into the Oval Office. This dude’s attention were with his constituencies from the start, and they are the homos, jews and latinos. He had his big bash for latinos just a few months after being in office; he has been out front for the fags and dikes since day one, and he is dangling on the end of the string of the jew. If it wasn’t for our people stepping up for him in South Carolina, these “leaders” wouldn’t be on the White House lawn right now, yet what has he done for the black people in South Caorlina, lately. This dude is using Sharpton and the rest in order to keep the Democrats from getting kicked to the curb in November, and him in 2012.

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

    Yeah, I have lost a lot of respect for the “good” Rev in the last few years. Those other two negroes have absolutely ZERO creditability among the masses of black folks. Very astute observation Earthling, this is nothing more than a campaign move by Obama. He will send these dealers back into the community and feed “us” some more of that opiate he had everybody loopy on while he was running. And unfortunately, many of us will be injecting/smoking/inhaling/drinking any and all of the narcotics these negroes will be selling and we will be chasing that same high, that we had Nov 4th, 2009! Obama “Continuity we can believe in”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    earthling,
    You….I cant….Ill be D….son of a… I’m just speechless and IMPRESSED by your post! You took a short, well versed paragraph and hit every nail on the head…*Applause Applause*

    _A_,
    You already know u speakin that truth! But ummm You better tell ‘earthling’ to stop it before he finds all the ONR (Obama Nutt Riders), on his front lawn burning crosses and yeilding pitchforks for saying all that…you know, like the ones we have on OUR lawns… LOL ;-)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    OH! and someone needs to tell Obama that Sharpton and the NAACP are NOT the people SOME of us constitute as OUR black leaders..See now Obama’s choice of ‘leaders’ to meet with is just ANOTHER blatant example of how NOT in touch he is with black people. If he really wanted to talk about a strategy for the economy as it affects ‘regular’ people, then he should have sat down with those who are feeling/living/ breathing this economy…Not a bunch of court jesters who havent felt the ‘crunch’ of a bad economy…Last time I checked, Sharpton hasnt missed ‘narry’ hair appointment!

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

    them niggas aint MY leaders ! (Barack/Barry “black-ceasar” Obama included)

    yall must be high if you think they just let us off the plantation without keeping sum uncle toms around…….

    the so-called jews funded some of the ‘negro’ organizations…telling OUR people how to sing and pray, march and get our heads busted, get dogs sicked on us and sprayed with firehoses, beggin and what not……

    but they taught their own children how to build businesses, how to buy from each other but to sell to everyone else.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    all i can say is wow there are other blacks on this post acting white like me for keeping it real if you havent figured it out yet the president is full of hot air all speeches and no do you no something aint right when blacks are starting to smell the coffee.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/New2southTX/ New2southTX

    The first problem with this meeting is there were no business person there. If the president is going to stimulate the economy he must meet with business owners, not professional civil rights pimps

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    New2southTX, “not professional civil rights pimps”

    hilarious but true

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

    To CaliFemme23

    &

    New2southTX who wrote: “The first problem with this meeting is there were no business person there. If the president is going to stimulate the economy he must meet with business owners, not professional civil rights pimps.”

    &

    blkman6ft6_inla who wrote: “All i can say is wow there are other blacks on this post acting white like me for keeping it real if you havent figured it out yet the president is full of hot air all speeches and no do you no something aint right when blacks are starting to smell the coffee.”

    It’s good to hear from black folks who ain’t drinking the Obama Kool-Aid (and you know what happened the last time black folks drank somebody’s Kool-Aid…can anybody spell “Jonestown?”)

    The reason Obama will not meet with REAL representatives of the black community is they would expect REAL solutions that made REAL financial sense.

    The NAACP (The National Association of Colored Pawns) and the National Urban League are two organizations owned and controlled by whites and Jews. Who do you think they represent? The art of gentile pimping of the black masses.

    This is just another photo-op and an opportunity to fatten the civil rights pimps’ pockets. This is just a dog and pony show and just how empty this charade is will become increasingly obvious to many more black folks over the next 18 months…

    check out my page, there’s a website and a book link that all three of you would enjoy.

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

    I forgot to mention Al Sharpton, whose Action Network is funded by corporate america. Need I say more about who all 3 of these BM represent?

    It’s time for Black self-help and the sooner we face that, and start to embrace the power of unity, the better off we’ll be

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

    Obama also invited:

    The “National Council of Negro Women” Chairwoman Dorothy Height, who is 97 years old, declined an invitation to attend due to the winter storm pounding the Washington area.”

    A 97 year old “Negro Woman”???

    and this combined group is supposed to address and help solve a 20 to 30% black unemployment rate?

    I mean NO disrespect for my elders,

    but let’s get real…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    crammasters,

    I read your blogs my man…YOU are nothing short of a genius…*Applause*

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

    sister, i appreciate the praise but honestly, nothing I say is original, I’m still learning, still stumbling and falling, but it’s nice to know that there are other like-minded people (like you) out there in cyberspace and in the black community

    keep on posting to my blogs and letting me know what’s on your mind

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

    Greetings Earthlings and Earthling… yes i agree on the choice of invites to represent black leaders as fouled based on the topic (unemployment).. i too think who better for the president to hold such a meet with than successful community Black businessmen and i think also active young black community leaders for fresh ideas should have made that list. I however disagree with your comments on that the President should have catered to Black peoples needs in this case unemployment first thing when he walked into office when we all know Employers were closing shop due to the recession(we all know black people don’t own large enterprises that hire masses) get it? Priorities people Priorities and lets not forget that this is politics… 1 must win the flavor of those that have power to make significant changes that he promised in his campaign run. Obama even mentioned that he could not bring about change alone. If Black people had the power to make changes they would have done so without Obama. So lets think alittle first before we make empty yes “hunger” statements.

    Ps just my views people not under any “kool Aid” influence.
    My people stop tearing each other down.
    It took 8 yrs for America to be in this bad sharp and you want Obama to waive his magic wand and make it all go away… Sorry thats not gonna happen.

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