I figured that it went over your head. No big surprise. The men of Morehouse have always known that that they had to be twice as good as the White guy to quality for the same job. In fact, that is part of the survival kit many Black parents give to their children in order for the child to survive in the USA

You probably didn't realize that things like Social Security and the GI Bill which build economic security for many White families specifically excluded Blacks. The housing issue played a major role in the inability of Black families to pass wealth down to their children. I bring this up to point out that your recent discovery of Black economic strife is old news.

Morehouse men and Spellman women will be up to the task just as they have been in the past. I knew that you could never understand.

   Whatever else you can say about Obama, he is hardly Ronald Reagan. He hasn't said or implied that unemployment is caused by laziness(I regret that in an argument long ago, someone regurgitated that "there are jobs in the paper" line and I didn't answer it).

Although his 2014 budget isn't as generous to the poor and elderly as liberals would like, I think it is an extreme exaggeration to say he is "balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and elderly. The budget does have a reasonable increase in funding to Health and Human Services, and to Housing and Urban Development. Obama expanded the food stamp program. If his plan for Social Security went through, there would only be a tiny cut in benefits($100-200 a year).

Your bias regarding President Obama leads to to make a childish attempt at an attack. The specch was geared to Morehouse Men. Here is a link to the editorial written by the Editor-in-Chief of the school paper, the Maroon Tiger, praising the commencement speech. If you follow the twitter feed of the school newspaper during the speech, you will note that the students were pumped by the speech. Obama became a Morehouse Man. You were not Obama's target audience. The Morehouse students were the target and they understood.

I think what your childish blather attempts to suggest is that the Obama's take a condescending attitude when they talk to the Black community. Ta-Nehisi Coates does a brilliant job of describing his unease at the Obamas advising the Black community to improve it's behavior. Coates notes that similar speeches would never be given at Harvard or Barnard. But it appears that the Morehouse students having overcome great societal odds loved the message. Michelle gave a similar speech a Bowie State in Maryland. The Bowie students shouted words of encouragement in response. Could the Obamas know the students better than the critics. Mrs. Obama talked about too many Blacks being focused on becoming rappers. One witty obersever wondered if she was addressing supporter Jay-Z.

Coates points out that when Obama spoke at the Hyde Park Career Academy a minority focused school educating middle schoolers in the wake of Hadiya Pendleton the focus was on single mothers, absent fathers and crime. Obama did not chastise single mothers in the Newtown shooting. Coates was correct, but wasn't the reason that Rev. Jesse Jackson and others urged President Obama to speak out about the death toll of Black youth in Chicago because the Chicago deaths were of a different nature than the Newtown deaths?

Georgetown law Professor Paul Butler says that Obama should tell graduates that he is sorry that he hasn't done more to help Black men. Reading through Butler's article, the major complaint is that Obama has not spoken out directly against the legal system bias that locks up Black men. Butler does admit that Obama may face some limitations in achieving Butler's desired goals. Butler just wants to hear the words that Blacks are under stress.

President Obama catches grief whenever he speaks on race. He had to explain Rev Jeremiah Wright. Obama was criticized for calling the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates "stupid" The was an argument that Obama was favoring the Black elite. When Obama said that Trayvon Martin could have been his son, he was criticized for politicizing a criminal investigation.

Notably the pastor, Kevin Johnson, who led the Saturday student prayer penned a scathing attack on President Obama, "A President for Everyone, Except Black People". Johnson was initially invited, then dis-invited from giving the prayer after the op-ed was published. Finally he was re-invited.to give the prayer. Johnson was siting on the stage with Obama during the speech. Johnson's comments can be found at the link.

Barack Obama is always going to be criticized when he talks about race. The Morehouse students appear to agree with the message thy heard. Obama singled out a Baltimore native, Leland S Shelton, as a man who had grown up in a stressful environment, but survived a thrived,. The Morehouse Man was taken from his mother and placed with his grandparents. He was in foster care at age 14. Shelton is headed to Harvard Law and plans to return to Baltimore to fight for the rights of foster children. Obama knew his audience.

And that just about says it all. If you go by the rhetoric the tea party and the gun nuts want to use guns to do what they can't do with votes. They think the 2nd amendment actually gives them that right. If they ever put their rhetoric into action they's quickly learn what a tiny little fringe group they are. Like the whiskey rebellion. It would be easily put down and the majority of Americans would support the government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion#Legacy

The Washington administration's suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion met with widespread popular approval.^[101] The episode demonstrated the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. It was therefore viewed by the Washington administration as a success, a view that has generally been endorsed by historians.^[102]