Smiley v. Sharpton over President Obama and the Black Agenda

Why on earth would anyone expect the President to have a "black" agenda?  Well, Sharpton, like me, doesn't feel that the President should be on front street making policies specifically for blacks, a term that I do NOT like to use.

There are issues that need to be addressed-there is no question about that.  However, the movement or revolution of African-Americans has to start from the ground up.  It's bad enough that conservatives consider President Obama "the most radical president ever."  Mix that in with a "black agenda" presented to Congress and we could easily see his destiny paralleling with King, Kennedy and the likes.  This is not to say that there aren't steps that  President Obama could initiate that would assists African-Americans by far; I'm merely saying that African-Americans must raise themselves up by their own bootstrap instead of looking to some iconic figure to solve their problems.

And nothing can be more frustrating, concerning the issue, than two leaders in our community arguing about the issue at hand.  Al Sharpton and Tavis Smiley bickered over the radio waves about the President needing to implement or not implement a "black" agenda.  Take a listen for yourself and you should come up with the same conclusion I did: This is sad.