“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordJune 14, 2007
In the last six years, over 300,000 black males have lost jobs in the manufacturing sector - the highest rate of any ethnic group.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
Source
presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Obama highlighting the disproportionate impact of job losses on African-American men.

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