TaRessa Stovall, PoliticsinColor.com
- OK, so for Father’s Day, Sen. Barack Obama visited an African American church to preach the gospel of responsibility to Black fathers.
From what I’ve seen of his speech, his words were pretty much identical to the message poor Bill Cosby has been spouting for a few years now. The difference is, nobody is taking Bill very seriously (though he recently came out with a book titled “Come On People,” to share his views in another format.)
A July 14 Associated Press story reports that “the presumptive Democratic nominee” preached an expanded version of same message to the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati. “The man who could become the first black president said Washington must provide greater education and economic assistance, but that blacks must demand more of themselves.”
