Obama Announces Initiative To Help Young Minority Men Succeed: Article Analysis

“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum hatred for a minimum of reason.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel. This quote shows that people are realizing that racism is a big foe, and they want to do something about it. Because of many programs or incentives that have been started by important people such as Obama, race will not be important in defining how people are treated in society or in the workplace in a very soon future. You will see that this is true by looking at excerpts from the articles Obama Announces Initiative to Help Young Minority Men Succeed by a writer from the Tribune Washington Bureau and Black Women Take Issue with the New Army Rule on Hair by a writer from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. People are soon going to

The text Obama Announces Initiative to Help Young Minority Men Succeed is about how Obama has begun an initiative where he helps black and Latino young men be able to get better jobs or education. This text by a writer from the Tribune Washington Bureau says, “Several leaders of charitable foundations joined Obama to announce plans to donate at least $200 million over the next five years. The money will be directed towards programs dealing with education, parenting, criminal justice, and employment.” This part of the text proves that Obama is helping people start to care because many people have funded this program already, so they know that racial discrimination needs to be stopped, and they want to help Obama stop it. This shows that people are funding Obama’s initiative, so they actually do care. Well, that just goes to show that if you are a black or Latino young man in this country, then Obama is helping people care more about you by starting a program where people can help you succeed in life, education, and your

Tarshia Stanley says, “I think it has more to do with cultural blindness. It would seem to me that the Army would want to stay away from policies that would be considered historically and culturally significant. To tell black women that their hair isn’t good enough is hurtful.” Another argument that my opponent could use is, “Like so much of Obama’s agenda, the plans for My Brother’s Keeper spring from necessity. Congress isn’t approving much of anything Obama proposes, so he must work with already available funds.” In the first quote, it may appear to be obvious that the Army is only banning certain hairstyles used by black women, but that would be a weak argument because the Army provided information saying that all this was a misunderstanding and that all they wanted to do was ensure that the women of the Army were safe and secure, not to make them feel hurt. In addition, my opponent may use the second quote to show that there is no hope for minorities because even people as high up as the Congress are being racist, but that argument would not be valid in this case. While racism is a problem in this country, sometimes that is not the case. With elections going on, and Obama’s term slowly coming to an end, maybe the Congress doesn’t want to start any big programs in his name