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Obama's promises for presidential center may not be enough this time for African-Americans
"Now that Obama is about to build his presidential center in Woodlawn's Jackson Park, some residents are wary of his ability to transform neighborhoods without doing harm to longtime residents who could end up displaced by gentrification.
A nasty fight over a community benefits agreement with the Obama Foundation has exposed an unexpected rift between the former president and some of the South Side residents who helped lift him to prominence.
Not everyone on the South Side, it seems, thinks Obama did enough for black folks during his eight years as president. And as he prepares to build a presidential center that will pay tribute to his legacy, some South Siders are calling him out for what they consider broken promises."
'Broken promises' - that about sums up Barry's Presidency for a LOT of citizens ... Now Chicago's returning 'son' is doing to them what he did to the country for 8 years:
'Obama consistently has asked residents to trust that he will do right by them. The presidential center, he insists, will provide a wealth of opportunities specifically designed to meet the needs of Chicagoans who have long been overlooked.'
But NOW?
'Obama opened the door to the backlash when he appeared on a video at the foundation's first public meeting last week and said flat-out that there would be no community benefits agreement.'
Under Obama, despite promises to help blacks, unemployment for blacks was more than double that of whites, and many promises to help went un-fulfilled...aparently nothing has changed.
As usual, OBAMA, according to his loyal defenders, is not to blame:
'Black people's expectations for Obama always have been set too high.'
It's not Barry - it's 'YOU'!
Some in Chicago have a message for Barry Loyalists / 'worshipers':
'"I don't believe he understands everything about black people," Smith said. "But he married a black woman from the South Side, and she feels our pain. Our pain is her pain."
While Smith said he doesn't believe Obama has ill intentions, he said South Siders have to hold him accountable.
"Not as a God, but as a politician," he said. "Not as a king, but as a politician."
That's a hard concept for a lot of African-Americans to grasp. But it's time for blacks to accept the truth.'
"Now that Obama is about to build his presidential center in Woodlawn's Jackson Park, some residents are wary of his ability to transform neighborhoods without doing harm to longtime residents who could end up displaced by gentrification.
A nasty fight over a community benefits agreement with the Obama Foundation has exposed an unexpected rift between the former president and some of the South Side residents who helped lift him to prominence.
Not everyone on the South Side, it seems, thinks Obama did enough for black folks during his eight years as president. And as he prepares to build a presidential center that will pay tribute to his legacy, some South Siders are calling him out for what they consider broken promises."
'Broken promises' - that about sums up Barry's Presidency for a LOT of citizens ... Now Chicago's returning 'son' is doing to them what he did to the country for 8 years:
'Obama consistently has asked residents to trust that he will do right by them. The presidential center, he insists, will provide a wealth of opportunities specifically designed to meet the needs of Chicagoans who have long been overlooked.'
But NOW?
'Obama opened the door to the backlash when he appeared on a video at the foundation's first public meeting last week and said flat-out that there would be no community benefits agreement.'
Under Obama, despite promises to help blacks, unemployment for blacks was more than double that of whites, and many promises to help went un-fulfilled...aparently nothing has changed.
As usual, OBAMA, according to his loyal defenders, is not to blame:
'Black people's expectations for Obama always have been set too high.'
It's not Barry - it's 'YOU'!
Some in Chicago have a message for Barry Loyalists / 'worshipers':
'"I don't believe he understands everything about black people," Smith said. "But he married a black woman from the South Side, and she feels our pain. Our pain is her pain."
While Smith said he doesn't believe Obama has ill intentions, he said South Siders have to hold him accountable.
"Not as a God, but as a politician," he said. "Not as a king, but as a politician."
That's a hard concept for a lot of African-Americans to grasp. But it's time for blacks to accept the truth.'
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