In case you missed it, check out ‘A Conversation with President Obama’ in its entirety which aired commercial-free on BET, Centric, CMT, MTV, mtvU and Tr3s and streamed live on their websites on Thursday afternoon.
The town hall event, which took place in Washington before an audience of approximately 250 young people “representing a broad spectrum of backgrounds, interests and political viewpoints”, offered a question and answer session with the President on some important issues, including education, the economy and healthcare.
It also provided an opportunity for viewers to submit questions and express their hopes and fears. Two concerns raised included the fear that America is becoming a communist nation and that President Obama would be reelected. He used those comments to stress that ultimately we all share many of the same goals and should work together to ensure they are met: “This is an example of how our political rhetoric gets spun up. The internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue, we just start calling … each other names, and that’s true on the left or the right. That’s something I think we’ve got to avoid,” he said.
The President also added:
“We’ve got to be able to have a conversation and recognize we’re all Americans, we all want the best for this country. We may have some disagreements in terms of how to get there but all of us want to make sure that our economy is strong, that jobs are growing. All of us want to make sure that people aren’t bankrupt when they get sick [and] all of us want to make sure that young people can afford an education. I’m pretty confident that if we work together over the next several years that the political temperature will go down, the political rhetoric will go down because we’ll actually be making progress on a lot of these issues.”
SHE CALLED SWAY…AJ..UGH * COVERS FACE*
I thought the gentleman who asked the President about the economy and voting for him again if it can’t be fixed in 2 years was a bit out of line, like he was talking down to him or something. I mean, that’s your President. I’m all for being concerned about your country and all, but he needed to be slapped.
↑↑ oh great article ,My boyfriend and i both think so …
↑↑ He is almost 11year older than me .i met him via
↑↑ (a hot place) as my name says
↑↑ a nice place for younger women and oldermen,
or older women and younger men, to interact with each other…
@LULU I totally agree with you! He needed a good swift kick in the ass! Our President is so smart and so classy, that he broke dude down..and dude didn’t even realize it. He had a rebuttal for each question that was thrown at him, and answered each question with substance. Now, would BUSH be able to do that??? I think not!
NEVER IN THIS HERE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (AND AGAIN MAKING HISTORY FOR IT) HAS A PRESIDENT GOTTA GO ON THE STOMP FOR THE DEMOCRAT SENATE AND HOUSE. THAT IS UNFORTUNATE AND SAD. WHAT ARE THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE DOING FOR THEMSELVES?
DO THEY COME TO THE HOODS AND GET UP IN OUR FACES (THEY DONT HAVE TO GET TOO CLOSE. MANY OF US DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE. THEY WANT THE VOTE, THEY WANT THE BLACK VOTE BUT STAY FAR NOT NEAR ASKING FOR IT. I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
AT THE SAME TIME I C LESS AND LESS SERVICES. BUS AND SUBWAY FARE ABOUT TO GO UP AGAIN. GAS PRICES GOING UP AGAIN. FOOD PRICES HIGHER AND U GETTING LESS WHILE PAYING MORE. CASE IN POINT, A BOX OF CEREAL, U NOTICE HOW THE BOXES GETTING SMALLER AND U PAYING MORE. CIGARETTES IDC B/C I DONT SMOKE N PPL SHOULD SERIOUSLY CURB THAT. THEY CAN TAX THAT TO THE HILT FOR ALL i CARE. These are everyday hardships of common folks and there are many more especially when you have a family to feed and unemployment is like 40 million. There are a whole myriad of issues. Anybody dont have an issue. Sure everybody do so who u gon vote for or are u gon vote.
I dont know who gon read my essay but I say VOTE, AND VOTE DEMOCRATS B/C IF U DONT THIS COUNTRY IN FAR GREATER TROUBLE THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW.
VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR A PERCEIVED BETTER TOMORROW
U DONT VOTE DONT COMPLAIN AND IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN . . . . . . GAWD HELP US ALL!
B/C WE ALL GON PAY AND PAY DEARLY AND . . .. ESPECIALLY BLACK FOLKS GON GET,
“LYNCHED”. VOOTTEEE!
I love how people think this guy is god. Like he can just snap his fingers and all the bs ends.
Obama is my president!!!! He is smart confident and powerful which makes him soooo sexy!!!! Whats up with all of these conservatives getting their questions answered!!!! OMG!!!! Did this dude just compare marijuana to racial profiling? I mean for real smoking mary jane does not intefer with your prosperity racial profiling does dummy!!! Thats why i dont like republicans!!!!! Big ups to the girl who brought up environmnetal injustice in black communities particularly NO!!! He talked about immigrants but what about black people. We never had the chance to assimilate, and i realy dont want to be anything like my oppressor so f assimilation but we still get discriminated against this needs to be addressed!!!! It is a race issue Obama, I love you but I must disagree. My greatest fear is that Republicans will take over again, that health care will go away and that tea party memebers will actually be in office… what type of crap was that they only listed conservatives greates fears. Incarcetation is the new jim crow, it doesnt matter if a black man is educated or not because the police wil still harass us and there will always be harsher laws that effect minorities than whites!!! I dont think there are more black men in prison than college however balck men make up a bigger percentage of prisons than they do colleges and this is because of racist laws, cops and teachers!!! Ok I’m done venting
Historically, black folks dont come out in big numbers to vote. They did in 2008 and although many whites voted, b/c of the enormous black turnout, there became the first black President in American history.
It is said that when white people sneeze or even get hiccups, black people suffer from pneumonia. That is very true economically and in many ways, in healthcare (lack of access as whites) too and in other ways, socially, institutionally, etc. With Obama there is hope for change for these things and change overall.
My purpose for this post is not to outline the gamut of issues but to state that blacks have also been notorious for being complacent, not answering a call to action, and not being activists on behalf of themselves, their families, their communities, and their country, the United States.
Many are not going to bother to go vote for whatever reasons. Laziness, uncaring, unmotivated, if they have a job some are not bothered b/c they living good and not affected by anything or much, not having a job and blames the goernment for it, or even those that living “under a rock and cant get out” (lol).
Many forget about the efforts Pres. Obama has made in changes in the present tax system, changes in how Wall Street does business, changes in the Healthcare system and the other changes he made and had campaigned for. He made legislative changes for better but for all of it enough Democratic seats are threatened to be loss. If former Pres. Bush brought us to the brink of disaster in 8 years and @ Depression’s door, and Pres. Obama bringing us a bit away from that, then u would think blacks would remember and actually go and vote.
Guess what folks. You dont go out to vote in big numbers, the Tea Party and the Republicans wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the number of comments on this post is basically what I dislike from black people.. if they post something about Rhianna, Beyonce, JayZ etc there’s 40 comments and people are jumping over hoops but wont take the time out to watch a video from someone who actually makes sense and serves us instead of themselves…..as a community we really need to wake up and i completely agreee with u #8
@ 9 Joy, I totally agree!
I’m surprised this reached ten comments. Making progress, I see…
^^^ LOL. I know right huh.
I can totally feel the girl about Domestic violence, not being prepared for college by public schools and how hard it is to pay for college. 10 percent of my income goes to loans? Let me do my math. If I wound up working minimum wage after college, approximately $1200 a month I will have to pay approximately $120 in repayments a month. Hmm…interesting.
The only thing I can’t seem to understand is how everybody under the sun is suddenly “educated” about the various problems that plague America, but refuse to realize that most of these problems were decades in the making. Whether Obama is re-elected or not these problems will still exist and most will be swept under the rug again. At least with Obama we’re actually moving, very slowly, but we’re moving. If everyone would stop letting politicians dictate their thoughts then we’d see improvements at a steady pace. Make up your mind about what you need from your government and stick to the facts. All the other “political” BS are for the rich who’s bank accounts rely on playing ping pong with our brains. Be smarter than the voices rammed at you through the media. Educate yourself.
watched the whole thing. sad there were no wall street questions
That 2nd guy was an asshole hes just mad he cant get a job.. me either im with him but the economy was pretty bad before obama even came into office. It dosent matter who he votes for the economy will still be the way it is. You cant fix these types of issues overnight. SMH
The president doesn’t hold sole power in this country, you need to be paying just as much attention to who you vote for in the senate and your state governments since state governments are more likely to affect your everyday life. Or resort to violence and stage a coup if you’re really fired up.
This is the suitable for anyone who would like to essay out out some this theme. You observance very much its almost effortful to represent with you (not too I rattling would want��HaHa).