On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Bill Lear<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah yes, "rewarding work with an expanded tax credit", and "making
> housing more affordable" --- by shoveling billions to the industry
> that lead the bubble upward --- ending poverty with more education,
> yadda, yadda, yadda.  Slick, recycled words from a pious corporate
> salesman, nothing more.  The black community gets sermons and empty
> promises while corporate America gets serviced at the snap of its
> fingers.


The words and phrases you carefully pick and choose say more about you than
about Obama. Here's other phrases from the same speech excerpt, nice and
short to make it even more easy for you to ignore.


".. make no mistake: the pain of discrimination is still felt in America. By
African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a
different color and gender. By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own
country." [...]

and

"But we also know that prejudice and discrimination are not even the
steepest barriers to opportunity today. The most difficult barriers include
structural inequalities that our nation's legacy of discrimination has left
behind; inequalities still plaguing too many communities and too often the
object of national neglect."

and

"But our task of reducing these structural inequalities has been made more
difficult by the state, and structure, of the broader economy; an economy
fueled by a cycle of boom and bust; an economy built not on a rock, but
sand."





-raghu.


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