Are you suggesting that black people were doing better under the Presidency of the man who directly preceded the Presidency responsible for the introduction of crack cocaine to urban communities as well as mass incarceration of colored people over ridiculous drug laws? And CONTINUED that platform?
And better than the years under the man who admitted (like 3 weeks ago) that his views on the drug laws and the prison industry were wrong and did more harm than help...specifically to minorities (BLACK PEOPLE).
And better than the years under the man who was was at the helm during one of the worst economic downturns in this country's history, which DEFINITELY affected black people and families??? The downturn that OBAMA had to help clean up???
- lower unemployment for blacks
- higher percentage of black home owners
- higher networth
- lower poverty rates
i'm not saying bush sr, clinton and jr were great presidents for blacks. i'm saying all the stats point towards blacks losing more than we've gained in the last 7 years. you can blame policies from the previous presidents, but our current president has done jack shyt to ix those problems
honestly, i believe his presence alone has caused a severe racial backlash. so while we're taking the hit for obama, hes done absolutely nothing for us.
What other group beyond straight white men has had"one of their own" in the white house? Besides which his hands have been tied and he's been fighting hard for everything he has done with push back from Congress every step of the way. The reason he has had more success helping these other groups is that these other groups had specific requests/demands and were organized to fight with him to get things done.
You state that he could have pushed for things to remove barriers based in racism keeping some of us down. What specific thing could he have done? What law could he have created or removed? What did you want put in place to help the black community as a whole?
has obama fought for AAs though? it's one thing to try and get blocked, but has obama even tried? seems to me like he's too scared of whites to even address anything beneficial for blacks.
so if the argument is there's no actions or policies obama could make to help blacks, then why are we wasting our time voting in presidential elections?
some of what i would have liked to see obama push for:
would start with
- racial income equality--we hear so much about white women getting paid less, yet they still earn more than black men.
- black unemployment--implement policies that'll help put blacks back to work, earning a livable wage
- police brutality--mandatory body cams, if the cam is turned off or view is obstructed; automatic manslaughter charge for the cop
- underfunded public schools--implement policies that'll insures no prisons are constructed while schools are being shut down.