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Black Leader: BO’s Policies Stoking Ferguson Anger – ‘We Hear America is Unfair to People of Color. That’s Harmful, Destructive’
Greg Corombos / WND
Black Americans are right to be angry about their economic conditions, but the leader of a prominent black conservative group contends the blame belongs with misguided government policies and agitators who distract people from the real problems.
Protesters have taken to the streets in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of white Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson shooting and killing black teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The protests focus not only on the specific case and the larger debate over relations between law enforcement and the black community but also over the perceived economic inequality between races.
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a piece for Time Magazine suggesting that any sort of major racial conflict in America would have less to do with race and more about economic disparity and class resentment.
Black conservatives agree that economic conditions are definitely a factor in the frustration Americans are seeing.
“There is some resentment that exists, but I think we’re seeing resentment that is being stoked and encouraged. It’s mostly based on the economic standing that people find themselves in,” said Horace Cooper, co-chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board. Project 21 describes itself as the “National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives.”
Cooper believes black Americans have suffered great economic hardship in recent years, and the people they turn to for leadership do not provide anything but excuses.
“There is no doubt that under the present administration’s stewardship, it has been harmful for Americans, and black Americans have felt it particularly painfully,” Cooper said.
“Unfortunately, rather than have a conversation about the good intentions behind the policies that have hurt so many, there’s been an ongoing effort on the part of agitators like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to engage in a distraction effort and to say to people who are genuinely unhappy about their situation that it is somehow a broader indictment on America that’s important,” he said.
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http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/black-leader-obamas-policies-stoking-ferguson-anger/
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