Commentary

The Democratic Betrayal of African-American Voters

By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 30 2012

When Barack Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008, even his most voracious critics conceded that one possible benefit of his tenure in office would be a new era of reduced racial tension. It wasn’t an unreasonable proposition at the time. Born of a black father and a white mother, Obama’s public record – from his two autobiographies to his campaign speech on race in Philadelphia – displayed not only a keen sensitivity to the issue, but also a desire to serve a uniquely palliative role in the history of American race relations. Born into the first generation of African-Americans…

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