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According to a special report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million Americans are now living in poverty. The number of those living in poverty in America has grown by 2.6 million in just the last 12 months, and that is the largest increase that we have ever seen since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959. And, yet, when we watch these political debates, you rarely hear anyone talk about doing something about it.

Dr. Cornel West is sounding the alarm, and joined Roland Martin on Washington Watch to talk about it.

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

    Yes, but the AAs are getting the MOST….and if you’re doing the straight and narrow, others feels that YOU have a agenda behind that, too….

    So if you do do right, someone else will find WRONG in that, too…mostly OTHER races……..

  • Anonymous

    I can’t worry about what is going on with other races. When all is said and done, poor white folks will be alright. Unemployment among them dropped in the last quarter, but it rose within our community. The government and society as a whole will look out for them. Even Hispanics have a better chance of having their issues addressed. They aren’t checking for our well-being, so why should we be concerned with theirs?

  • Anonymous

    Where is Plan B for Job Creation, Mr. President?

    Here is what our President said in his own words when he presented the American Jobs Act to Congress and the nation, “But know this: The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here — the people who hired us to work for them — they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. Some of them are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck, even day to day. They need help, and they need it now. I don’t pretend that this plan will solve all our problems. It should not be, nor will it be, the last plan of action we propose.” Those same people he talked about in that speech are still waiting for a Job Creation Plan from this President. Yet, the discussion it appears that will be in the fore front in the coming months is that of increasing taxes on the very rich and reducing taxes on the middle class. This is an endless discussion concerning rich vs. poor. The President and his advisors know that no serious adjustment to the tax code will even be contemplated, until after the election of 2012, if than. In the meantime, while in the background, Blacks suffer with high unemployment. Think about it, how can any community sustain double digit unemployment rates among its males above 15.0% and among its females, above 13.0 % ( these are the official numbers) for 3 straight years and now heading into a 4th year, continue to be vibrant and nurturing, influencing the lives of its young people? This is the state of Black America Let’s face it, the ones who are living day to day, mentioned in his speech are not going to make it. They will not be with us in 2012 as they slip off into homelessness.
    If intellectuals, like Mr. West have truly been influenced by the truth of the suffering now being endured in our community, the obvious next step is to coalesce behind a plan to create jobs in our community and force it upon a reluctant and entrenched Black leadership, being led by an overly circ**spect President. I have long been an advocate of this statement, “We are weak because we do not act and we do not act because we are weak, so evil prevails.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The411/ The411

    Right On! Black folks are always trying to be the champions of racial equality for all races as if these people cannot help their own race. You don’t see a famous Asian or Hispanic fighting for the rights of Black people. We become so bogged down with everybody jumping on our backs riding onward to their own civil rights that we loose steam when it comes to our own Black fight.

    Blacks wanting equality for everybody when they haven’t even reached it yet and probably never will. I’m sick of these Negros thinking that “We all can get along” ….. every single race that has come in this country and yet still the Negro is the bottom feeder. So whatever bandwagon these types have, I do not want to be a part of. I shall mind and tend to moving my own people forward. Not even remotely interested in anybody else.

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

    Why do negroid males ALWAYS want to include other cult(ures) to help, when they don’t give a damn about us?

    Are those asians, lebanese, chinese, mexicans, india(ns) breaking their backs to help us? HELL NAW! Their only breaking their way to the banks to deposit our money!

    NEGROIDS ARE SO DAMN PASSIVE!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/swampthing49/ swampthing49

    soooooooooo true,,,,hell!!! if these negroes put as much energy worrying about themselves as much as do they do others they would not even notice the other races for they would be to busy building our own up,,,

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KD3U2KZS3WVFGH6W5ZPOTDRAE TimH

    And West wants to kill white folks and give their money to the fatherless welfare crowd.

    Nice man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    I wish somebody would kill your honky ass.

  • Anonymous

    They flood this nation with poor immigrants from all over the globe,as they say give us you poor and tired .What do these fools expect when they flood this nation with too many poor people,they breed more poor people in a vicious cycle of poverty and the quality of living goes down for the ones who have been here for generations.They did this to destroy this nation,the Roman Empire was destroyed by multicultural integration,this is a fact,and it will never ever work.Is this educated West that much of a fool and does not study human nature or history?the most powerful people are the ones thar empower their own race,they parrot that facade of being Amerikkan,they are for white nationalism with whites in power and you a subservient Negroe,these fake leaders are well paid to mislead the masses,sounds sweet but no proof that it works to better Black people who suffer the most from mass immigration,all these Negroe leaders are covert agents that push socialism,destroy the working middle class and milk you with taxes to pay for these so called New Amerikkan.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/leon757/ leon757

    since you are saying what you are saying it sounds okay. are you one of those negroids that chases after that WHITE JESUS and the SUPPOSE TO BE WHITE GOD?

    if you are then everything that you have just said is BULLS**T, if not then you are on your way to being an independent black male or female.

    that is the true downfall for blacks in amerikkka, that photo of a WHITE JESUS and that BULLS**T IDOL WORSHIPPING CROSS.

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

    $intelligence = opendir(‘the/new/money’)

  • Dandelion

    A Poor People’s Lobby is WHAT WE NEED!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The411/ The411

    Heyal to the nah, I’m not down with an picture (aka IDOL) of a falsified Jesus. What you’ve described is one of the many indoctrinations of yt supremacy which includes making THE Ultimate God yt. Noo pictures exist and those with a basic geography lesson would realize that blonde and blue eyes aren’t even a trait in the regions He was doc**ented in.

    Gotta realize that Blacks were enslaved and programmed more years than they have been free, and STILL to this day are mentally/emotionally enslaved. Heck, even psychically because the brain is attached to the body and can cause ailments from stress.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The411/ The411

    I hear ya bro SteveAlex,

    I’ve found that in order to keep yt supremacy/yt privilege going, many times even yt liberals will finagle po oppressed Blks folks into feeling content as inferior bottom feeders. They will employ the most respected, but also the most persuaded “leaders” that have mingled in their social clique.

    Many times these Blk leaders have hidden agendas, either to get the big fat paychecks (as you’ve mentioned), feel some type of acceptance from The MAN and/or to stay relevant as a respected figure in the news or whatever else. West I think is conflicted. He’s lived in academia for the majority of his life where theoretical views should really hold true. Even more so he’s conflicted because he’s had his fair share of yt women – wife. Can’t really stand straight sometimes on certain issues when you’re a lil crooked. Know what I mean……..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mmmjb2003/ mmmjb2003

    Same old story since the 60′s. I submit intergration has killed the drive for blacks to be independent. I walk through the grocery store, & I realize ‘we’ don’t make ish. We couldn’t wipe our collective ‘asses’ with out white folks/Asians. We don’t make toilet paper but there are at least 12 major brands. I even see where the PROUD BROWN MAN has managed to make toilet paper for his people. The list goes on & on of the products we consume but have no ownership in let alone stock. For decades, these so called black leaders have paraded around the country drumming up support for foolishness. Yes there was King, and a host of other ‘talkers/speakers telling us we need to come together. White folks ain’t comin’ together with no niggas, get past it. Every day in the news & around media outlets some white man or woman makes some foul remark about Blacks or Latino’s. At least ‘The Minister’ is advocating buying land and producing goods. From the land to the factory to the shipping to the shelf. Along that path you can find many employed black people if our so called leadership would just lead us on that path. I’m an Atheist so don’t say I am a Muslim or with the NOI. I am for Black Progress.

  • Anonymous

    Somebody will try to shut Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley up.

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

    Hell, a “REAL” Black Lobby is what we really need.

  • Anonymous

    White wife,man that tells me where he stands,they give them white women to pacify their Black power farts.

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

    that is the true downfall for blacks in amerikkka, that photo of a WHITE JESUS and that BULLS**T IDOL WORSHIPPING CROSS.
    ===========================

    What these dumb negroids don’t OVERstand is that the cross is a symbol of DEATH!

    Where are crosses located…in the cemeteries!!!

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