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  • From pride to disillusionment: a black leader sours on Obama

    03/17/2013 8:00:35 AM PDT · by Innovative · 29 replies
    Baltimore Sun ^ | March 17, 2013 | Robert L. Ehrlich Jr
    ...race trumped philosophy (albeit temporarily) in the eyes of the Harry Alfords of the world. "I had hope because he was black. [But he's] hurting my members, my constituents. I had to back off. I had to represent my people." To be blunt, Harry Alford is mad, and he's not going to take it anymore. He's concluded what many of us suspected all along: Barack Obama's hyper-progressivism is bad for black business (and all other colors as well). Obamanomics did not cost the president his job last November. But life for Mr. Alford's members has mostly gotten worse. The indictment...