The Village » President Obama https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage Real People. Real Talk. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:57:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Black Voices Weigh in on the President’s State of the Union Address https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/2015/01/29/black-voices-weigh-in-on-the-presidents-state-of-the-union-address/ https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/2015/01/29/black-voices-weigh-in-on-the-presidents-state-of-the-union-address/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:08:55 +0000 http://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/?p=1687

SOTU

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

“…But tonight, we turn the page. Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.  Our employment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before.  More of our people are insured than ever before.  And we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years.

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Seeing a black man running the country, seeing his black wife and his black daughters at The White House means something because they look like us in a place and in a position we've never been.
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