[Rockingham]

In fairness, Ft. Pierce, a small seaport mostly serving citrus and other agriculture, has always been heavily Black and blue collar, with many stuck in poverty. Obama cannot reasonably be blamed much for its ills.

The more telling point is that Obama neither shows nor advocates virtues that Ft. Pierce's Black folk demonstrated over the years, such as the talent and scrappy truth-telling of resident Zora Neale Huston, the distinctive paintings of the self-taught Florida Highwaymen, and the faith and courage that Ft. Pierce native CeeCee Ross-Lyles demonstrated on Flight 93 on 9/11.

As one newspaper biography of CeeCee recounted:

"Emulating her mother and aunts, she never took welfare, instead working two or three jobs while volunteering at Restoration House, a Christian women's shelter that two of her aunts founded in Fort Pierce.

'CeeCee was a role model, showing women they could make their own way without leeching off the system,' said her aunt, Mareya Schneider. 'In the last few years, she really dedicated herself to the Lord and she would use Scripture to explain that if you don't work, you don't eat.'"

[Rome2000]

I know he won’t be stopping in White City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City,_St._Lucie_County,_Florida

[lastchance]

Thank you, my husband grew up in Fort Pierce and it is not all tar paper shacks and crime lords.

[NonValueAdded]

well said