Symbolism Instead of History

Symbolism Instead of History | Frontpage Mag:
Replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill is likely to be Barack Obama’s only lasting achievement.
He certainly won’t be remembered for tangible benefits he has brought to black people. 
But like most progressives, useful political symbolism trumps reality.
In fact, Obama has done little for black people.
Larry Elder lays out the cold hard facts:

• “The net worth of all non-white families has fallen almost 20 percent since Obama took office. 
• For blacks, it’s even worse. 
• The so-called black/white wealth gap is at a 25-year high––with black income down, homeownership down and equity down. 
• From 2007 to 2010, blacks’ net worth declined 13.5 percent. 
• But over the next three years––from 2010 through 2013––it plummeted another 34 percent.” 
• And the black unemployment rate is 9.2 percent, twice that of whites. 

Black pundits, professors, and race-baiters have cleaned up on white guilt and vote-trolling Democrats, but blacks most in need have been abandoned.
Having done little for a majority of blacks, Obama instead has peddled the symbolic racial politics of outfits like Black Lives Matter, which claims that there is an epidemic of policemen wantonly gunning down innocent black men in the streets.
Once again, fact is irrelevant to a movement whose goal is to leverage social and political power from the misery of black social dysfunctions.
...Of those 965 killed, only 90 were unarmed, and the majority of those were white.”
Meanwhile, about 5,000 blacks a year are murdered, the vast majority by other blacks.
All we get in response from Obama are crickets and tumbleweeds.
Once again, symbols are more useful than reality..."