Thread: If President Obama makes a speach to encourage black people would he be criticized?

Obama has to really be carefull. If he ever says anything in a speach to blck people, then the white folks would get pissed . He is in a unique position. And here in Tennessee where I live there are alot of ignorant rednecks just looking for a reason to critise him. He can't seem to win.

As long as we make sure no money goes to those WHITE construction workers, everything will be great!

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Hopefully not, but maybe Jesse Jackson wont wanna cut his nads of like last time, when he made a speech about Black Fathers.

I think Bill Cosby spoke out to black people to encourage them, and it was the black people that got mad, not the white.

"White will do what's right" Benediction"Make sure not to hire highly skilled white people" Reich on stimulusAnd you want to add to that another racially motivated speech? At some point it'd be nice if we were represented as the American people.

He has already given a speech like that to black people and I praise him for that.He needs to give speeches like this once a week. We need everyone in this country to be responsible for themselves and get off their butt and get a job.

His text of his speeches so far contain attempts to encourage all people, not just black people. However, because he speaks in African-American rhetorical style, I'm sure that many black persons feel that the messages are especially for them.

It already happened. During the election he gave a speech on Father's Days talking about absentee fathers in the black community(an issue he personally has experience with).He was criticized. Jesse Jackson threatened in an infamous outtake to cut his nuts off. But he survived it and his message was well received in many quarters.

People that criticize Obama are automatically "rednecks" in your opinion? He's the leader of all the US. That includes blacks, whites, Asians, Jews, etc.