Obama said, after all, that the subject of race was too important - TopicsExpress

Mike Flores

Obama said, after all, that the subject of race was too important to ignore and implicitly promised to confront it if he won the presidency. He has not. He has avoided the subject assiduously. And when he has addressed it, he has typically done so only obliquely. “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago” and similar signature musings over the Obama years do not explain much, do not promise much and do not tell us where we should go from here. For many African-Americans, he has been a hero—but also a disappointment. On critical matters of racial justice, he has posited no agenda, unveiled no vision, set forth no overarching mission to be accomplished. Take criminal justice. Nothing in the day-to-day lives of black Americans is more menacing than their vulnerability to criminality on the one hand and mistreatment by police on the other. Yet on neither front has Obama focused the attention of the nation. Read more: politico/magazine/story/2014/06/black-president-black-attorney-general-so-what-108017.html#ixzz35oUrTPo2

Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:13:37 +0000

Obama said, after all, that the subject of race was too important - TopicsExpress

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