Americans celebrating Martin Luther King Day today should be proud of the incredible progress made since the civil-rights leader’s birth 87 years ago. At the same time, we should lament one of President Obama’s greatest failures.
The last Democratic president and the last Republican president both managed race relations more effectively than Obama has. Seven years after American voters made history by electing the country’s first black president, racial tensions have worsened.
It didn’t rank on Obama’s one-item list of his “few regrets” during his State of the Union address. But signs of Obama’s failure are on our streets, on our campuses and among our leaders, left and right.
“Ferguson” has become shorthand for African-American fury objecting to insensitive white cops harassing young blacks. The “Black Lives Matter” movement has spilled into American campus culture, as privileged kids attending the world’s finest universities bemoan their alleged oppression — bullying anyone who challenges them.
This black backlash has prompted a white backlash, personified by Donald Trump. Every justifiable police shooting called “racist,” every Halloween costume labeled politically incorrect, every reasonable thought censored makes Trump look like America’s last honest man.
Amid this tension, Obama has been disturbingly passive — even during America’s first serious race riots since 1992. He acts like a meteorologist observing the bad weather, not a president able to shape the political climate.
How embarrassing that Obama’s most memorable act of presidential leadership on race may end up being inviting a black professor and a white cop to the White House for his 2009 “beer summit.”
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Turning back the clock is putting it mildly. He has dialed it way back and its a sad thing. Before he became president people were more tolerant of one another, treated each other a bit better than they do now. Most of all, everyone in general is more angrier than ever before.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this, too, in time, will pass... it's just we want this to pass sooner than later.
ReplyDeleteYes things have changed,the clothes a racist wears have changed.As far as our President having something do do with the clock is a lie from Hell.OH yes,another thing has changed,the whites are beginning to notice they are slaves too.
8:44 As for the clothes a lot of time they they have their butts hanging out of their pants and as for the clock that thing has been wound backwards until it is broken. The last statement does have some merit. Yes that is O's plan for all of us.
ReplyDeleteAmen Joe !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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