Is Being President of The United States of America, a Valid Ambition For Black Folks?

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Yes or no?

Barack Obama’s extraordinary failings, during his time in charge of his nation’s affairs, are apparent with every passing day.

It is much too easy to forget that the man was presented with the greatest opportunity to remake America by siding with the poor and deprived, but chose instead to give Wall Street and America’s biggest oligarchs the biggest carte blanche to rebuild their fortunes and that’s exactly what they did.

And the several millions who lost their homes to foreclose haven’t recovered.

While it is a legitimate argument to make that Obama wasn’t elected President to exclusively ameliorate the lives of African-Americans, but to ensure that white and brown folks could survive and thrive.

But what have seen since 2009, does suggest that we might have been better off, if the man wasn’t elected in the first place.

It is so easy to forget that Black Lives Matter came to national and international prominence, during his time in charge of his country’s affairs.

His reticence or some might call it pusilanimity on Black issues, at a time when Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin were slaughtered on the streets, spoke volumes.