They are his most fiercely loyal supporters, a powerful voting block who came out en masse in 2008 to help make Barack Obama America’s first African-American president. But African-Americans contend that they’ve been forgotten for much of the last four years as they fared the worst during the economic downturn of any other groups, according [...]
African-Americans Still Waiting For President Obama To Address Their Unique Issues
October 29, 2012 | Posted by
President Obama Turns To African-Americans As Election Race Tightens
October 22, 2012 | Posted by
African-Americans threw their support behind Barack Obama in record numbers to help send him to the White House in 2008, but four years of difficult economic times have weathered their enthusiasm. The president still figures to garner the lion’s share of the black vote in his re-election bid against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, but getting [...]
Black Vote In Virginia Could Be The Difference For President Obama
October 5, 2012 | Posted by
The black vote could be the difference in Virginia if President Barack Obama is to carry the swing state and march to a second term in the White House. Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since 1964 when he bested John McCain four years ago, but he will need to [...]
Pres. Obama is The President of Black America As Well
August 7, 2012 | Posted by
During a recent interview with Black Enterprise, President Barack Obama was asked about some of the criticism he’s received for allegedly not doing enough to support black businesses. In response to the question, the president had this to say: “My general view has been consistent throughout, which is that I want all businesses to succeed. [...]
States Work to Take Voting Rights Away, Proving Every Vote Counts
August 7, 2012 | Posted by
Every vote counts. At least that’s what we have always been told. But federal challenges to election laws in several states may finally tell us whether every vote really does count or, as many fear, not every vote will. In Ohio, provisional ballots make up the nexus of the battleground. Provisional ballots are cast when [...]
Is President Obama Taking The Black Vote for Granted?
July 14, 2012 | Posted by
Some African-Americans have watched enviously as President Barack Obama courted other voting blocs critical to his re-election hopes. The president pushed for repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that barred gays from serving openly in the military and endorsed same-sex marriage; he helped push through fair pay for women; he supported the DREAM [...]
Romney to Ask for Black Vote at NAACP Convention
July 11, 2012 | Posted by
Republican Mitt Romney today will speak to the NAACP convention in Houston and follow through on one of the odd rituals of presidential campaigning for the Republican Party: Going in front of a group of black people who will not vote for him and explaining why they should, all the while knowing that they won’t. [...]
The Lopsided Love Affair Between President Obama and the Black Community
June 7, 2012 | Posted by
As we gear up for the 2012 Presidential election, it’s interesting to see how the White House works to explain the fact that it’s been MIA for the black community. The last three years have been a relative wasteland of political and economic progress for African Americans, and even the most ardent Obama supporters are [...]
American Ignorance Is Sinking the Nation
June 7, 2012 | Posted by
The less American citizens know about how our country works, the worse our country seems to work. The Educational Testing Service, perhaps best known for administering educational and assessments tests, including the GRE, has released a report that links weak civics knowledge to less voting, less volunteering and greater distrust in government. Fault Lines in [...]
Has President Obama Earned The Black Vote?
May 13, 2012 | Posted by
In this 24-hour news cycle, ostensibly we should be inundated with more news, information and substantive analysis, which would provide a solid foundation to measure the performance of politicians. Instead, we seem to get bogged down in soundbite minutia, to the point we miss the obvious. For example, when President Obama spoke about immigration reform [...]
