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What would Jesse say? The Obama race debate spreads to Britain.
Britain’s Conservative Party leader David Cameron joined the bitterly contested argument over family breakdown and race today by praising Barack Obama’s warning that too many black fathers have abandoned their responsibilities to their children.
In a wide-ranging interview with London’s Guardian newspaper, Cameron says that many black church leaders have expressed the same anxiety to him, and that it is time for a “responsibility revolution” to change patterns of behavior.
Referring to Obama’s speech, in which the presidential candidate warned that absent black fathers were behaving like teenagers and shirking their responsibilities to their children, Cameron said: “I think he’s absolutely right. I mean I think it’s a very brave thing to do. And it will have a huge influence that he has said it. I’ve had a number of meetings with black church leaders who make the same point. They are concerned about family breakdown and social breakdown, and want to see what I call a responsibility revolution take place.”
Cameron insists the appalling discrimination and economic disadvantage black people experience have to be recognized and changed, but at “the same time we will never solve the long term problems unless people also take responsibility for their own lives.”
Comments
By Tray
July 16, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Wow, what a powerful message. You mean to tell me all this time i thought most black men were good fathers who believed in responsibility…and I was wrong!?!
Sorry people, but this is something that should’ve been said about 20 years ago! (Bill Cosby said it and was shunned by the black community-tells you something doesn’t it?) It’s funny how Obama can say it, but had a white person said it first, blacks would be in a giant uproar about it! I love this quote: Cameron insists the appalling discrimination and economic disadvantage black people experience have to be recognized and changed, but at “the same time we will never solve the long term problems unless people also take responsibility for their own lives.”
Yeah, so stop waiting for the government to bail you out! I used the government for help once, but that’s all it was, help. Currently i support myself and my family now because i worked hard for it!
The problem is that blacks hold a grudge against the whole U.S. and thinks the government should make it all better. NO!!! YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT BETTER BY PUSHING YOURSELF!!!
By JDavid
August 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
As long as the liberal Media can make blacks VICTIMS of white America, & keep black hypinated, African-Americans & not 100-percent Americans…blacks will remain second class. Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton have made careers keeping racial tensions on edge.