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Conservative Outraged Obama Is Addressing Problems They Blamed On Him

by Josh Israel at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/28/3346561/brothers-keeper-critics/

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In the 2012 campaign, critics of President Obama attempted to dent his minority support by blaming him for high unemployment rates among women and racial minority groups. Now, as Obama’s newly announced “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative seeks to take aim at the challenges facing boys and men of color, conservative writers are attacking him as “divisive.”

In a National Review Online column, Roger Clegg wrote Thursday that the White House plan was “government sponsored discrimination.” Despite the nation’s lengthy history of discrimination against racial minorities and the ongoing challenges facing their communities, Clegg lamented that taking steps to combat barriers to opportunity would actually be discouraging to these groups:


Constitutionality aside, it is divisive and unfair to have racially
exclusive programs. And what kind of message is given to blacks and Latinos when they are told that their young men are so problematic that they have to be singled out for special help to ensure that they don’t screw up?




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