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81. The Pres hasn't rejected all "race specific solutions", Jefferson.. from my previous post to the OP

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 08:25 AM

Jun 2015

The President hasn't rejected all "race specific solutions".. but too many people don't even know about this from Obama..

"My Brother's Keeper" Feb 27, 2014

Youth Guidance: President Obama Invites BAM Program Back To The White House

President Obama has invited Youth Guidance’s Becoming a Man (B.A.M.) program back to Washington D.C. to kick off a new White House initiative called “My Brother’s Keeper.” Three B.A.M. students from Hyde Park High School, along with B.A.M. Lead Supervisor, Marshaun Bacon, and Youth Guidance Board Member, Stuart Taylor, will visit the White House Thursday and Friday. The President’s initiative will support young male minorities by bringing foundations and companies together to find ways to keep young men in school and out of the criminal justice system.

http://www.youth-guidance.org/president-obama-invites-bam-program-back-white-house/

"Yahoo: Obama Embraces A Lifelong Cause: Helping Minority Boys Succeed"

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-embraces-a-lifelong-cause--helping-minority-boys-succeed-164019997.html

President Obama speaks at the launch of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance May 4, 2015

And, that's what he's said he's going to do when he leaves office, too..

"Obama’s Retirement Plan: Help Black Kids"

After he leaves the White House, friends say the president will return to his passion: helping African Americans through his My Brother's Keeper Alliance.

What is in Barack Obama’s heart? Underneath that cool exterior, it can be hard to tell. When he leaves office in 2017, he will be a fit 55-year-old with decades of productive life likely ahead of him. How will he use them?

I went to the Bronx on Monday with a hunch that Obama was about to tell us; and I wasn’t disappointed.

MOre~
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/05/how-obama-will-spend-the-rest-of-his-life.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6766269

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White progressives� racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities � and the left [View all] geek tragedy Jun 2015 OP

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"If you want blacks, Latinos, and young people to tune you out.... Cali_Democrat Jun 2015 #2

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Give it time. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #67

The Pres hasn't rejected all "race specific solutions", Jefferson.. from my previous post to the OP Cha Jun 2015 #81

The OP is what I am referring to, Cha..and good morning. Here she lends her opinion Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #84

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