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I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
Julianne Malveaux
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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
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San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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African-American people adore President Obama.
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Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.
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While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
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Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.
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I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
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Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
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He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
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I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
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References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
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If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
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If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read Black and Brown, would be better off with recovery jobs.
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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
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While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
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