OBAMA ANSWERS BLACK CRITICS: ‘I cannot pass laws that say I’m just helping Black folks.’
President Obama last week shot back at a growing chorus of African American critics who charge his administration is not doing enough to reverse the skyrocketing unemployment rate among African Americans or otherwise help Blacks pull themselves out of the current recession.
Critics in the Congressional Black Caucus and among various civil rights groups have been demanding more “targeted” aid specifically designed to benefit the nation’s minorities.
