Obama’s agenda serves blacks and whites       A wrenching
economic downturn has brought into stark relief the financial
realities of many black households: Prosperity is tenuous,
security is elusive and footholds on the economic ladder are
slippery. Of course, millions of working-class whites would no
doubt argue that their economic fortunes have been similarly
tenuous.   U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., and chairman of the
CBC, says the group deserves some of the credit for putting the
issue of “unemployment on the front burner in the American
dialogue” when much of political Washington was consumed by the
debt debate. “Many of the proposals in the jobs bill are things
we have been pushing,” he said. (Cleaver, by the way, has
sometimes clashed with the president over policy, but says he
was “not offended” by the speech.)       Email Cynthia Tucker at
cynthia@cynthiatucker.com.   waltspecht 3 years, 2 months ago
Racial Prejudice, or just poor parenting? The work ethic of the
last and the current generation