West & Smiley,,,,,,, where were their voices for the last 20 years? (804 hits)
where were their voices for the last 20 years? They LOVE the Clintons, who pushed mothers off welfare, enacted NAFTA which took all the middle class jobs from African Americans, enacted laws that kept people with felonies from voting, accessing housing or assistance and so on.
From where I sit I see people returning to schools, and trying to start over. I see families getting section 8 housing vouchers which had been frozen for years. I see excessive drug sentencing being challenged. And children in poor school district getting some federal assistance with improvements. And I an looking forward the Obama Care!
No he doesn’t talk a lot about us, but still water runs deep. and I believe he is doing what he can. Lest we forget, just because “WE” get the title doesn’t mean we get the power.
West and Smiley act as if they live in an academic bubble, have they even noticed the obstruction the president is facing….and the weak party he represents. They can talk all they want about what should or could be done. But neither of them have lost their homes because the plant where they work is sending jobs to China. Nor are they in line for housing, or counting on Social Security that is being threatened daily.
They have every right to voice their opinions, but not many black people are listening as they tear down the best hope for us since the civil rights era.
