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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

Julianne Malveaux

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
Journalist
Radio Personality
San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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African-American people adore President Obama.
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Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
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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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If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
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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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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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As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
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If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
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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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The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
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I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
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There's no great, white bigot there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
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I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.
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I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
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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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[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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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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I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
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