Political Quotes

“I literally mean it as friendly advise because the subject is the cause of so much chaos in the African American community, and that subject is jobs. The President got 10 percent of the black vote the last time, something under 10 percent; and there are various figures about how much he proposes to get this time. What the President has got to understand about the African American community is that it is the most bottom line community in the United States, that is to say, it votes its bottom line because it has no choice, because it is further behind in our country because of historic circumstances of which we are all aware. The indication of just how bottom line the black community is, is switch from the Republican Party, the so-called party that freed the slaves, to the Democratic Party when the bottom line was whether or not you could get a job or had enough to eat, and those are the issues that are central to the African American community today.”