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Broadcasting live from our nation's capital, President
Barack Obama will participate in an hour youth town hall meeting, where he will take questions from an audience of 250 young people on
October 14th. In an unprecedented nod to the power of social networking, the President will also be answering questions from viewers submitted via
Twitter.
This is a prime opportunity for young people to voice their questions and concerns.
With race-based housing discrimination, educational disadvantages,
unemployment and
salary disparities weighing on the wallets and psyches of African-American communities across this country, black youth need to be upfront and center at this event, prepared to ask the difficult questions.
Malcolm X once said:
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
In the turbulent times we are facing, this holds true now more than ever, and we can accomplish these things through the power of honest conversation and action. October 14th is the perfect time to start. Tell your kids, students, churches, mosques and organizations about this upcoming event to make sure our youths' voices are heard.
The program will air live at 4 p.m. Eastern time. It also will be seen on the
MTVu,
Centric,
TR3s and
CMT networks. It will also be online at
MTV,
BET and
CMT.
We must be heard.
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