Because, look at the unemployment rate. look at the failed high school dropout rates. he is not doing what he should be doing to implement proposals where people should be employed. his energy policy is failing our country. and when you look at it, he had over 90% of black voter support for both elections. and he is just failing our country and especially failing the black community. sean: let me ask. we have now heard from dr. carson and deneen borelli. show of hands, how many of you have been called horrible names as we talked about earlier. put your hand up high. anybody? nerve this room horrible names. reverend, why? why is that happening and where are the people on the left that claim they will stand up for civil rights, defending the right of african-american conservatives not to be treated this way? it s designed, sean, to keep black people, and particularly uninformed and broke. and when you put people in that type of situation you
Because, look at the unemployment rate. look at the failed high school dropout rates. he is not doing what he should be doing to implement proposals where people should be employed. his energy policy is failing our country. and when you look at it, he had over 90% of black voter support for both elections. and he is just failing our country and especially failing the black community. sean: let me ask. we have now heard from dr. carson and deneen borelli. show of hands, how many of you have been called horrible names as we talked about earlier. put your hand up high. anybody? nerve this room horrible names. reverend, why? why is that happening and where are the people on the left that claim they will stand up for civil rights, defending the right of african-american conservatives not to be treated this way? it s designed, sean, to keep black people, and particularly uninformed and broke. and when you put people in that type of situation you
I don t think he needs to interfere with that. i don t think it s him, but someone in his office that is compelled to get involved with these types of things. i think more importantly is what about education? there is a 65% increase, but a 35% drop in high school dropout rates that are crazy in new york city. priorities. the dropout factor. you could actually have an education campaign about ear buds. that would be better than a ban. this is not a ban. you need to educate let me jump in. that s what s going o. this is an education campaign. is? what you top the spend city resources on, the campaign to turn down a quarter of a million dollars. there so many other things to spend mono. i don t want my money spent that way. it s hard to speak you. you should speak up. do you think obviously i m hearing them saying it should be
It. arne duncan is at it again. don t get me wrong, i know he means well. he s talking about save willing kids. but from where i sit, the plan he has simply won t get it done. take a look at what the secretaries of education said yesterday at washington at a roundtable led by nbc s own andrea mitchell. the vast majority of children in these three school districts are poor. the vast majority come from the minority community, black, latino. these are the kmuntds where we have high high school dropout rates. these communities are destined to remain poor. their families, the entire communities the only way to end the cycles of poverty is get dropout rates to zero. they have to graduate in some form of higher education. it sounds right, but i just can t believe the only way to end cycles of poverty is to get dropout rates to zero.
dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a cap on itemized deductions for high earners. the white house estimates that would raise $400 billion over four years. the bill would also close loopholes enjoyed by oil and gas companies, raising an estimated $40 billion. it would raise taxes on investment fund managers and scale back depreciation rules for corporate jets and suddenly republicans who had been promising to hear the president out had h