The Great Black Hope

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! The Great Black Hope! by Kevin Pennant! August 23, 2014!

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In a bit of schadenfreude some of us, black and white and everyone else in between, are haughtily debasing the commander-in-chief, chastising his ability to lead us out of the preexisting conditions and slave-era remnants of racial segregation. Already half-way through his second term the President should have also united Israel and Palestine, halted terrorism, and rid Iran of all of its uranium enriched plutonium. Iraq and Egypt should have become the model democratic nation for which all Arab states ascribe to, while the rising dragon in China surrender all its ambitions to usurp the US as the world's economic and military superpower. Such bold, lofty, and hypocritical goals would have made Russia second-guess annexing the Ukraine’s Crimea region, and military actions should have reigned in and disciplined Syria’s Bashar Al Assad from even considering chemical attacks against several opposition groups, of whom have now turned against each other.!

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This is what we hoped for in a black president. A return from the economic abyss of a financial crisis that was more devastating systemically overall and far more damaging to economic mobility than any other crisis, in any given lifetime. The president should have led a reconstructive recovery that would have been less partial towards the well-heeled and more equitable for the middle and the especially poorer classes. However, this has not happened as expected. Instead not only is Congress more divided than it has ever been, it is both more scornful and more frustrated with the President’s ability to be the most powerful person in the world. !

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With the kind of power that we bestowed through either promotion and or casting votes for the first and probably last black president of the United States, comes a weight that no pair of shoulders could possibly bear. It is the kind of weight that can’t be nudged much less lifted. To put it more bluntly it is wishful thinking of the kind that is usually thought of while high on


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