Jesse Jackson Says President Obama Needs to Be “More Engaged” with Blacks (324 hits)

Jesse Jackson Says President Obama Needs to Be “More Engaged” with Blacks
… and Meet with Him

(Taylor Media Services) Jesse Jackson, veteran civil rights leader and one-time lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., suggested last week that President Obama was not spending enough time with African Americans nor meeting with their traditional civil rights leaders. Specifically, Jackson asserted that he and other Black leaders “want to engage more fully with Obama because there is a lot of unfinished business.”


Jackson told CNN’s John King that despite the election of the nation’s first African American president, “structural inequality” still plagued Black America and he appeared to suggest that Obama was not doing enough to address Black concerns. He explained that what was needed primarily was “greater investment in troubled inner city communities.”


Jackson, who first ran for president himself in 1984, did add he expected a meeting with Obama “at some point.” His comments came just days after Obama addressed the convention of the NAACP - the nation’s largest civil rights organization.

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Posted By: Jen Fad
Friday, July 31st 2009 at 4:19PM
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