If Al Sharpton is one of your staunchest defenders and a "sometime adviser," then you're going through life with all the credibility of a pile of dog sh!t.
Too true; by 2012 the talking heads admitted nobody even listened to Obama speak anymore (including his supporters, who were just interested in the free sh!t).
The working blacks I know are a dispirited bunch; they know he did more for white queers than for blacks in general...