A President for all Americans

When I asked Obama supporters why he had not more forcefully spoken out on issues of African-American concern I would be sternly reminded that he is president of all Americans. As it turns out he most certainly was not. The financial crash of 2008 and the democratic parties embrace of globalization casts a long shadow. Millions of American citizens of all backgrounds have not recovered from the policies of crony capitalism and watch in horror as new such policies are enacted every day.

If the polls were wrong about a Clinton victory they are most likely wrong about the Obama approval rating. Going deeper his black bourgeoisie plays well but eventually the lack of substance catches up. Here was a black president who could not admit citizens had a right to life and could affect no real change. I pointed out years ago that while I do listen to the hip hop music no one should promote it in public. His given widespread acceptance to Jay Z and his endless, repetitive use of the N word was really all anyone needed to know about Obama and what he thought of black america.

Apparently he thought highly of the white elites who placed him in power but little of the white masses who suffered his economic slights.

The elite mythology of the rise of the creative class and knowledge worker does not fit well with the truth that those jobs by their very nature go to a minority of the population with the intelligence and discipline to pursue them. The rest of us are left in the cold in such an unfair world.