ROLAND MARTIN: ‘Dr. Dyson, West, Glaude, Perry — Do What’s Right For Black Folks!’ (1682 hits)

Roland Martin was on fire this morning, Mon. April 14th, 2014 on The Tom Joyner Morning Show. He talked about the public argument between Dr. Michael Eric Dyson against Dr. Cornel West. He also asked why is it that we can’t publicly hold President Obama accountable and disagree with him. We could be critical of the previous Presidents but can’t be critical of President Obama especially when there are policies that work against the best interest of African Americans.
“How is it that we have the ability to say, Mr. President, we love you and respect you, but when it comes to the parent plus loan we disagree with you?” Martin questions.
“The real deal is this. Yes, we have the first black president, but he’s also the 44th president of the United States. And just like African Americans have the ability to put forth public policy and offer real critiques when it came to Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, go down the line, to Carter, to Ford, To Nixon, to Johnson, to Kennedy and go on and on and on and it’s always been the case. But for some reason we don’t know how to act now.”
“Tom, it’s been a month since The Wall Street Journal did a story talking about $23.09 billion dollars in loans given to small businesses last year. How much did black folks get? 1.7%. For a month I’ve tried to get the Small Business Administration to come on this show to explain what in the world is going on and how to fix it. We haven’t heard anything. But for some reason that hasn’t been the talk. We can’t somehow talk about what’s really hurting folks because we have the pissing match going on back and forth. And it makes no sense.”
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Monday, April 14th 2014 at 10:05PM
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