What Will the President Say In His Speech This Week?

(TriceEdney Wire) – It’s a pivotal moment for the Obama White House. The Black unemployment rate is now at its highest in almost 30 years. All eyes are on the President as he gives what some view as the most important economic speech of his nearly three-year tenure this week.

“The Republican field is still extremely weak. And the Republicans are not offering anything as an alternative,” says David Bositis, spokesman for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bositis, considered a foremost expert on Black politics, indicated that Obama’s re-election is at stake. “It depends on whether the jobless numbers get better or get worse. Even if they get worse, the Republicans are still not offering anything as an alternative,” he said.

Just before the official start of the election season on Labor Day came revelations of the worst Black unemployment numbers since the Reagan Administration in July 1984.

This article was formerly available at The Seattle Medium.