“Many believe that the country is too racially polarized to build the kind of multiracial coalitions necessary to bring about massive economic change.”
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”
0bama December 8, 1995.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/