Washington Post writer slams Obama for denying student loans to black families with bad credit
Courtland Milloy of the Washington Post is not happy with Obama when it comes to student loans and let him know it in a recent op-ed.
Obama administration delivers ‘a nasty surprise’ to black college students, parents
When it comes to dashing the hopes of thousands of college-bound African Americans, you’d hardly think of President Obama as a culprit. Maybe the right-wing-dominated Supreme Court. But not Obama, the black Harvard law grad who likes to cite higher education as a path into the middle class and who pledges to make student loans more accessible to black scholars.
And yet, in what United Negro College Fund President Michael Lomax calls “a nasty surprise,” the Obama administration has begun denying student loans to disproportionately large numbers of black parents because of blemished credit histories.
Talk about audacity. Obama blames malfeasance by big banks for plunging the nation into a recession, then bails them out — and proceeds to punish black people for not making it through the economic maelstrom unscathed.
An angry-sounding Obama actually called Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling against a key part of the Voting Rights Act a “setback” for blacks. You want to know what a real setback is, Mr. President? It’s using some bureaucratic fiat to prevent black students from going to college.
Here’s the money quote.
Imagine any other president, say George W. Bush, trying to bamboozle black people the way the Obama administration has. Students from every HBCU in the country would be marching on the White House.
Obama, on the other hand, can go to Morehouse — which is being racked by staff furloughs because of his restrictive loan program — and tell graduates, as he did at a recent commencement, “Nobody is going to give you anything you didn’t earn.”
And he gets a standing ovation.
Bush would have been hit with a shoe.
Obama administration delivers ‘a nasty surprise’ to black college students, parents (The Washington Post)