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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
News The president is not your homie
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM
There is no magic wand.
Now that Obama is safely in the White House, is it safe to publicly question how our much-beloved president is performing in office?Not yet, says radio personality and BET host Jeff Johnson.
“Black folks, in particular, get irritated,” he tells the Washington Post. Blacks must get past “Obama the personality” and see “Obama the president,” he said. “Otherwise all your being is a political-celebrity groupie instead of a citizen. It starts with acknowledging he’s my president, not my homie.”
Read the rest of this QCityMetro.com article here.
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