By Deroy Murdock
Thursday, September 22, 2016
‘I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my
legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in
this election,” a particularly hopped-up-looking President Obama shouted to the
Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night. “You wanna gimme a good sendoff?
Go vote!”
First, just imagine the national burning and looting that
would erupt, starting inside America’s newsrooms, if Donald J. Trump said he
would consider it a “personal insult” if white people did not vote for him.
Second, how insulting!
Obama speaks about black people as if we were his
servants, and he our master.
Black people owe Obama nothing. Au contraire, he owes black people plenty. Black voters turned out
and backed him by 95 percent in 2008, according to the Roper Center. And then,
in 2012, black support plunged — all the way down to 93 percent.
And in exchange for this blind loyalty, black folks got
what from Obama? Very little. The promised land that many expected never
arrived. In most cities, black neighborhoods still tend to be the go-to places
for economic hardship, educational disadvantage, and crime.
Obama’s economic performance among black Americans has
been highly mixed, at best, with recent bright spots overshadowed by years of
abundant bad news. Since he became president, according to the latest-available
data, here is how black Americans have fared on selected economic indicators:
• Unemployment rate: Down 36.2 percent
• Labor-force-participation rate: Down 2.1 percent
• Proportion below the poverty line: Down 6.6 percent
• Real median household income: Up 2.5 percent
• Food Stamp participants: Up 58.2 percent
• Home ownership: Down 9.5 percent
(For further details, please click here.)
Perhaps worst of all was Obama’s attack on the
Washington, D.C., school-voucher program. He has worked tirelessly to defund
one of the few glimmers of hope available to overwhelmingly black students in
America’s simultaneously most expensive and worst-performing school district.
Meanwhile, to their tremendous advantage, Obama sends his daughters to Sidwell
Friends, Washington’s most elite, exclusive, and expensive private school.
Disgusting!
Rather than fresh insults, what Obama owes black
Americans is an apology.
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