I leader afro-americano Deliver Agenda Per di Obama secondo mandato Elizabeth Flock

Following a four-hour closed door meeting Monday, the leaders of four African-American advocacy groups emerged looking pleased to announce a collective wish list they plan to deliver to President Barack Obama for his second term.

Il “black agenda,” as the groups have called their wish list on Twitter, starts with ensuring the fiscal cliff doesn’t disproportionately hurt black Americans. That’s something Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, ha worried about before. But Morial also listed five new priorities that came out of what he called Monday’s “historic gathering.” Those include: working for parity for blacks in education, health care and the economy; reforming the criminal justice system; and protecting and defending voting rights.

The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment about whether the president would make these priorities a focus during his second term.

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But according to Morial, the voting rights priority is key. “When our community was challenged by voter suppression…they reacted with power, with dignity and with force,” ha detto.

Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.

But Al Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network and a liberal commentator for MSNBC, warned Monday that “the voter suppression tactics we saw this year are still in front of us.”

Sharpton inoltre confrontato la nuova agenda nero con la Marcia per i diritti civili a Washington, una grande manifestazione da gruppi per i diritti civili afro-americani 1963 che ha portato a due importanti atti legislativi: il Civil Rights Act del 1964 e il Voting Rights Act del 1965.

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“E 'in questo spirito un mezzo secolo dopo, diciamo che lavoreremo insieme, che ci riuniamo, per cercare di impostare un ordine del giorno,” Sharpton ha detto. Mentre la nuova lista dei desideri è improbabile che possa portare a tale legislazione storica, unità da vari gruppi di pressione afro-americano può rivelarsi importante.

Un ottobre studio da Washington University di St. Louis ha scoperto che alcuni gruppi americani neri, neri cioè conservatori e religiosi, sentì profondamente disilluso con il presidente. These groups said they felt less free when it came to political participation than they had under previous administrations, because of ideological differences they had with the president.

Morial acknowledged the importance of unity, though none of the four main advocacy groups involved in Monday’s talks are headed up by conservative leaders. “Against the backdrop of… a great deal of hope and promise that we have in our president’s second term,” ha detto. “We felt it was important for us to come together.”

Fonte: usnews.com