this week brought Obama announced the new outreach program for disadvantaged
youth specifically out racial minorities
a men up collar around the country it's called my brother's keeper
and it the Cup partnership between both the government also private individuals
corporations are gonna be raising money
they believe quite a bit of money actually I more than two hundred million
dollars over five years is apparently already been pledged
and up rock Obama gave some reasons for why he felt a partnership like this with
necessary he said
by almost every measure the group that is facing some of the most severe
challenges in the 21st century
in this country are boys and young men of color fifty years after doctor martin
luther king talked about his dream for america's children
the summer in fact is that the late chances for the average black or brown
child in this country lags behind almost every measure
and is worse for boys and young men while we just assume this is an
inevitable part of american life
the obstacles that young men of color face should be treated as the outrage
that appears
and the things that this could significantly improve their life chances
I suppose and he connected on a very personal level with us some love
the the use of color that he met with while preparing to launch
I my brother's keeper and the venue that we're about to watch explains out
sort of what his are early life experience was like soul
as Christian mentioned during my visit during a circle
and i sat down in the circle and
we went around led by up
their counselor and guys talked about their lives talk about the stories this
and when it was my turn I explain to them that when I was their age
I was a lot like that I don't have a dead mouse
and I was angry about it even though I didn't necessarily realize it
at the time I'm a bad choice
I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do
I don't always take school seriously as I shoulda
I made excuses after a space to guess the next make
said are you talking about you mcBride said yeah
and the point was I could see myself
in these young men and the only difference is that I grew up in an
environment there was a little bit more forgiven
so when I made a mistake the consequences
were not as severe I told these young men my story then
and I repeated now because I firmly believe
but every child deserves the same chances
the tire so I love that he
initiated this program is about time and
better late than never I'll take it I i think it's great
I a you know it to me I've always will thought the someone should leave an
effort
to go on communicate to I think the
wording we use now it's silly but use of color
okay a black kids latino kids at RA
I like the headline so quick that to okay of their that which you can see
but the Obama launches program to boost minority youth
things like Wat but way like he's like if you want more from
you know I get really mine or yours or the yeah I'll try to get over a fence
capitol building and I'm here above
I think the key thing here is look we it got a bit new to things one is
or Web opportunity for young kids in the place where they don't have opportunity
and number two is let him know that it's possible
right a you'd be shocked at how many people don't know the things are
possible
so the this study that I was thinking when I think about that is that
so they took two kids who good scored in the top 10 percent the SAT's
but from poor areas not having to do with race which is poor areas
and they went to substantially worse schools
think it's a school in the top 10 percent but grew up in rich areas
okay because he's in the race here is knew that they go to Harvard in I
release in Stamford know that's up
because the boards had no idea I had no idea to go to East Tennessee State
and in what could it kill it there right and their finance center but
they just had no sense all the possibilities are the world to offer its
raid
so the fact that the day now program that's trying to do that i think is
great yeah
but I think I think he's going to face a lot of criticism as well get to and from
the videos are you watching to the little bit
and and I think that he has warded off similar criticism by making it not just
simply another big government program which I think I'll be perfectly fine but
a lot of people on the other side of the aisle a problem with
but the fact that it's the government working in conjunction with raising
money from individuals and corporations i think is a great thing
and I think that a lot of people generally would feel more comfortable
with a program like this
if it was targeted specifically at people are disadvantage based on income
rather than spit rather than a long race racial grounds or something like that
usually people have more support for that then like racial from infection or
something like that
on but I think the fact that he is he's raising money from individuals and from
corporations like
targeting in this way could very well raise much more money than
a more broad-based non-racial grounds for program could raise I think
I know jimmy and i was struck by a when he said that he made bad choices
and a I was all surprised because I I was pretty sure he is going to say I
made bad choices
like by striking a deal with the pharmaceutical companies headed back to
avoid providing
americans with affordable health care by adjusting our a public option I thought
that was what he was gonna say they're
but no doubt about that I wanted to say bye hiring Timothy Geithner writer I i
back a little bit later on strike so yes
although it would have been does your ad choices yeah alright then I thought he
was going to come clean at all because as they grow up without a dead he still
angry doesn't even know it any still kept doing this stupid shit
right well so they go says a really important point actually so
there because he say obvious is referring to bad choices in
smoking pot but he wound up being present the United States apparently was
not about a job that you are right
although he does he does say you know that that I didn't have to suffer
any real consequences so but that actually is the biggest irony there and
it's unfortunate because
he's the person who is especially his first term was the one that enforceable
that severity
right there when you got caught with drugs they're me they threw you down the
river right and they would do the drug this past year aids even more so than
Bush did
now he's Turner a substantially in the second term
so so that's good right and he's trying to make sure that they don't have a
severe
consequences for the things he did and got away with an wanna becoming
president for
I but you know the in there by the way he also the Navidad
and still became President of the United States of America so
is always talking like go see you know if your grown up in a single
a you know parent household all my god you got no chance now you have a chance
but the key thing is you need opportunity any measure them the speech
to
Rainey said look I had an educated mother rate
and I had grandparents who were really there for me and I got a chance to go to
a really good school
right lacks the difference now whether you smoke pot you had admitted Navidad
yeah it's a way you're black you're white you get to go to a good school be
a good support structure
if I was him I would focus even more on that yet so %uh there's one other quote
from broken actually plays and what you're saying that on every 80 says
we will beat the odds we need to give every child no matter what they look
like
where they live a chance to reach their full potential because if we do with we
help these wonderful young men become better husbands and fathers
and well-educated hard-working good citizens that not only will they
contribute to the growth and prosperity their children
they'll pass the lessons on to their children on their grandchildren
will start a different cycle and this country will be richer and stronger for
for generations to come
so we're gonna see some other people have a problem with this because they
believe that the big problem is rap music or whatever it's not that
you know there's no investment the schools the community is they don't have
a support structure they can rely on
I i think that this makes all the sense in the world because exactly the sort of
program
or you will find a massive return long term on the investment that we put in
for every dollar we put in
we know that we read then the businesses they start are going to produce a lot of
extra money
they're gone ploy people they're not gonna be in jail all these things are
gonna be great
and benefits that will reap from this and it's not like we've never tried it
before we did this with a different group with white america after world war
two by providing
a like basically no interest rate loans to GI's coming back to start businesses
and go to college
and buy homes that would eventually crew extra values that they could send their
kids to college
we've already been through the cycle before but unfortunately long the way we
left a lot of people behind
and if my brother's keeper goes a little bit of the way towards
narrowing that gap I think that it could be a great part broke Obama's legacy
so what other issue that people had with this was that
and they said well you know you're emphasize a personal responsibility
think
too much that to Ray had a commentary about that on MSNBC
and you make it seem like its their fault braid when in reality it like it's
a structural racism that put them in this whole on what you need to do is
address that
so they could have equality of opportunity and I'm really torn on that
cuz I think there's validity in that his right to
the racism did put them in a hole the lack of opportunity
is the real problem it's our but at the same time I feel like what
you got also say hey you gotta work harder so you think that's
kinda like assumed Brady but it's not necessarily assume you
Europe will provide the right role models trade and I think if a lot
african-americans that are successful go out there and give speeches a center and
say
hey here's what I did and he was up to me I had wanna try to get that for you
so that you can do likewise overall I i think thats
as Spike I get why and what a great professor Jody armour from USC
make that argument here to do it. everything that I love great
but overall I liked the speech I think it's got include the personal
responsibility but I think it's good
also I i think im what a shitty burden to have to carry
you're successful black person in this country
that you like somehow duty-bound to go out and talking to other people
the same race to tell them that you can make it to like we'll have to do that
shit
you know I want to go out talk to other upper-middle-class jus
don't they really bear down they gonna probably make it beautiful I
what the competition for high I but I don't want to cuz i shouldn t me you
know and and I mean in the same stuff that the most successful why people want
to watch in
I mean it's great that they do it but I mean it's just one more
what more annoying burden that somehow we feel comfortable putting on the man I
I don't even disagree and I'm sure
I don't not sure I imagine I'd feel that way but you know they got the same
they get kids they had I got stuff going on
you know felt or you know this server so this
this new things called my brother's keeper and then ron Paul came out with
my brother better keep his hands to himself and I and the street with no
health insurance claims a different things a
a little different and that we're all equal but slightly plagiarized
feel rather Paul family aa
they go I may give speeches there like ice came out here to tell you all the
fuck off have good luck to you
be bad but I did bring bootstraps a three on the most reputable to remember
it was all in the boot straps and give those away
you to race point to know that you talked about is now they're
they're both valid but literally then
book this is an effort the money is not about the personal responsibility the
money in the investment
in this which is of course again a pittance compared to the
tax credit will be given oil companies which better or for worse but
George good it's good but that thats to correct some of the institutional
barriers
that better inevitable the personal responsibility goes along with it so I i
grew to get so we had to put
really has put in perspective the amounts greater the got two hundred
million dollars but Paula Dean just raise between 75 and 100 million to
restart her business so we're not talking about a huge
under attainable than a month which raises money for I don't even know I
read about everything
tony Perkins probably the Research Council david duke's mailing list what
everybody a lot of stuff but by Boca Raton Ron Paul may be helped out
a you know what they're gonna say is and what they all which lowry
always says a in from the National Review
is that you know yes there's might still be some remnants of racism leftover
America
but if you are willing to get educated and work are you can make it
so what that really says is we really don't have any responsibility to you
because if you work hard you can make it and if you haven't made it it's good you
didn't work art
so that's what they're saying which it will be even and yes
this at this point may be obvious but I mean which just exits
exists so nicely as a companion piece to what we've been hearing and what
conservatives and some liberals have been saying
for a hundred years which is that you're lazy to begin yeah but you're lazy year
yeah color your skin depigmentation your skin
somehow makes you lazy yet you're getting and so it will but they say is
there is nearly the whole church will say the cold here
what they really mean is no what blacks and they're black culture
yeah but then there's the as property values in area go up and there's a a
bigger tax base for the school's
less laziness yeah