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After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Kanye West made the controversial statement, “George Bush does not care about Black people.” President Barack Obama has been criticized for not doing enough for African Americans as the first Black president, but he spoke to millions of Black Americans this week when he called in to “The Tom Joyner Morning Show.”

Hear what President Obama had to say about unemployment being twice as high in the Black community, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. monument, and his reaction to being harshly criticized by African American leaders like Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornell West in this clip from MyHoustonMajic.com.

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