[driftless2]

If there is anything at all that is positive about Obama being elected, it is the hope that many African Americans quit the habits that have truly kept them down for so long. Unfortunately I don't see this happening, because to truly change would mean breaking with the party that has put anchors around their legs for decades.

When the Republican Party was still the party of Black Americans (all the way up to 1960 where Nixon got fortyfive percent of the BA vote), they made more material progress percentage-wise than any other group of Americans. That changed after 1964 when they were officially made victims and told to wait for government to save them.

If they still believe that Obama is going to shower jobs and other material goods on them, they will be sadly disappointed. The statements made by a number of the people inteviewed in this story show that many of them still have not learned the tragic lesson from the sixties: government is not your personal savior.

[Cementjungle]

If they still believe that Obama is going to shower jobs and other material goods on them, they will be sadly disappointed.

He WILL increase their welfare payments, and that will make them happy.