Five and a half years into the Obama era, some of his African American
supporters finally admit black voters didn't get much of substance for
their nearly unanimous support of the First Black President. Of course
the black political class does its level best to blame everything on
evil racist Republicans who don't even like what the president had for
breakfast. In a shameful flip on the notion that black faces in high
places should represent us in the halls of power, our black political
cognoscenti relentlessly belittle any expectation that the lives of real
people down here on the ground ought to improve behind the election of
the first black president as unsophisticated and unrealistic. Meanwhile
black family wealth continues to fall, black unemployment and mass
incarceration remain about the same, and our black political class
continue their glittering careers.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "What Corporate Media and Corporate Latino Politicians Won't Tell You About Central American Child Refugees" (Black Agenda Report).