Blacks Lose Ground under Obama - And Republicans should remind them

National Review ^ | April 10, 2015 | Deroy Murdock Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416735/blacks-lose-ground-under-o

[Cincinatus' Wife]

As a declared presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) should generate even bigger headlines when he addresses black audiences, as he has at Howard University and other venues. When he was executive of mainly Democratic Milwaukee County, Governor Scott Walker (R., Wis.) appealed to black voters; his reelection majorities consistently increased.

These and other Republicans should ask black Americans for their votes from now through November 2016. They should do so by challenging blacks to ask themselves an honest question: “What, exactly, have you gained by handing Obama 95 percent of your votes in 2008 and 93 percent in 2012?”

This economy has left blacks with little to show for their loyalty to Obama and the Democrats.

The unemployment rate has fallen under Obama, from 7.8 percent when he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, to 5.5 percent last month. Though less dramatic, joblessness has dropped for black Americans (from 12.7 to 10.1 percent) and black teenagers (from 35.3 to 25.0 percent).

From there, things get bleak.

U.S. labor force participation has declined during that same period, from 65.7 to 62.7 percent. For blacks in general, the damage was a bit lighter, dipping from 63.2 to 61.0 percent of available employees in the work pool. For black teenagers, however, this number deteriorated — from 29.6 to 25.7 percent.

The percentage of Americans below the poverty line inched up, the latest available Census Bureau data found, from 14.3 to 14.5 percent overall — between 2009 and 2013. For black Americans, that climb was steeper: The 25.8 percent in poverty rose to 27.2 percent.

Real median household incomes across America retreated across those years, from $54,059 to $51,939. Though less pronounced, such finances also reversed for black Americans, from $35,387 to $34,598.

Food Stamp recipients between 2009 and 2013, the most recent Department of Agriculture figures show, rose from 32.9 million to 47.1 million Americans. Meanwhile, the equivalent number of blacks soared from 7.4 million to 12.2 million.

Home ownership slipped from 67.3 percent of Americans in the first quarter of 2009 to 64.0 in the fourth quarter of 2014. For blacks, that figure slid from 46.1 to 42.1 percent.

For further details and analysis, see this chart.

Elie Mystal, a black Democratic activist, appeared with yours truly on Hannity on March 20. Responding to data like these, Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity pleaded in vain for Mystal to explain how Obama had improved blacks’ fortunes. Finally, Hannity practically begged Mystal: “Give me one statistical piece of evidence that the black community under Barack Obama — they gave him 90-plus percent of their vote — is better off under his policies. Give me a measurement that you can point to.”

“No,” Mystal sputtered. “I cannot give you one shining super metric that explains the difference in experience for black people under this president versus black people under the president’s potential competitors.”

This sorry spectacle vividly exposed the bare cupboard reserved for black profits on Obama’s watch.

As America’s first black president, Obama offered blacks a sense of ethnic pride, much as JFK’s election warmed the hearts of his fellow Catholics. Indeed, Obama’s breakthrough stirred Americans of all backgrounds. His first inauguration moved even his opponents. Obama back then enjoyed 69 percent approval.

But that symbolic value has evaporated. The eloquent, elegant figure who echoed Sidney Poitier has devolved into a latter-day Jimmy (J. J.) Walker. From his West Wing waltz with a selfie stick, to his exclusive interview with neon-lime-lipstick-wearing GloZell Green, to his truancy during Paris’s Charlie Hebdo march, to his 223 rounds of golf, to his screaming-infant-like reaction to the reelection of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama has soiled his office, turned himself into a punch line, and fundamentally transformed his country into a global laughingstock.

Obama has betrayed blacks as a community, failed Americans as a people, and enfeebled the United States as a nation.

These painful truths will be inescapable come November 2016, even to Obama’s most devoted loyalists. Republicans should make this case to black voters, starting now.

— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.

[kaehurowing]

Everyone has lost ground under Obama.

[Joe Boucher]

During the last presidential election it was apparent that Jews and blacks had been taken for granted by obammy and the dems yet both groups continued to vote for the maggot in record numbers.
Makes little sense.
And though black unemployment has continued to grow and Israel has been kicked to the gutter they will again line up like lemming ready to jump off the cliff for dems????

[CharlesOConnell]

Black Princess: 'We Know O is Hurting Us, But We'll Always Support 'One of Our People'
Sacra Pizza Man blog ^ | 2/19/2015 | Sacra Pizza Man

Posted on 2/19/2015, 6:08:04 AM by CharlesOConnell

 Miss Livinia: “Black people know Obama is hurting them but they'll always support 'one of our people' "

 

 Miss Livinia (not her real name) is a Black steel magnolia, not just upper middle class, but in personal comportment, a positive Princess. She resembles Lena Horne facially, in her speech and attitude. I've never seen her look less than stunning, at well past 80.

 Livinia was an inner city school principal. She formulated her own early childhood reading pedagogy, which she used to great success getting little Black kids to read.

 At one time she was more in the political mainstream. I think she was shocked at the effect of Maafa 21, the worst of which is that spiritual influence behind the population control movement understood since black women would smother their own children in the time of slavery that the greatest success would be to get Black people to kill themselves off, as if Black is Beautiful, the greatest thing to come out of the 60s, never even happened.

 She has since sworn off the cool aid, but I was shocked at her pronouncement:

•  Black people know that Obama is hurting them, but they will always support him because 'he is one of "our people" '.

 That's quite an admission, for a lady who has hobnobbed with the elites.

 There's nothing about this on the internet.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

This is where Ben Carson, Allen West,etc. should step and make their views clear on this subject in backing the candidate for POTUS in 2016.

[Cowboy Bob]

I was going to say the same thing. EVERYONE lost ground...except for Obama’s cronies.

BTW, why is the author only concerned about the wellbeing of Blacks? Why is their situation more important than others?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's not that he's more concerned about their well being, it's about having them open their eyes and moving off the liberal plantation. The entire country will benefit.

[EEGator]

Good, they deserve it.

[EEGator]

“BTW, why is the author only concerned about the wellbeing of Blacks? Why is their situation more important than others?”

Because he is Black, and that trumps all else with Blacks.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

This is quite a confusing post

All I’m seeing is a blogpimp

BEGONE BLOG PIMP

[BobL]

Rand will blame whites for it. We deny them the right to vote, because we support Voter ID, so they’re not represented. And we lock them up in jails, not because of crimes, but for sport.

Rand’s view of the world.

[Ken H]

“What, exactly, have you gained by handing Obama 95 percent of your votes in 2008 and 93 percent in 2012?”

About the same as they gained by voting for LBJ in 1964 and every democrat since then.

Based on 50 years of voting history, why would anyone expect their vote to change in 2016?

[BobL]

“Based on 50 years of voting history, why would anyone expect their vote to change in 2016? “

Rand thinks by getting rid of Voter ID and emptying the prisons, blacks will be so happy that they’ll start voting Republican.

[Ken H]

And though black unemployment has continued to grow and Israel has been kicked to the gutter they will again line up like lemming ready to jump off the cliff for dems????

I lean toward 'yes'.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

This is worse post I have ever seen on FR

It is not cogent.

[Dr. Ursus]

What baloney! Under Obama the cradle to grave benefits has so increased that you don’t ever have to work to survive!

[Pontiac]

The unemployment rate has fallen under Obama, from 7.8 percent when he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, to 5.5 percent last month.

A lie of statistics.

This is only true because they changed the definition of unemployment.

[SauronOfMordor]

Blacks will never vote Republican in any great number. Pandering and trying to appease them is useless. Worse than useless if it alienates more white voters.

It’s best to just stay focused on conservatism.

[ImNotLying]

Under Obama and Holder, they have gained the right to riot without retribution.

[Pontiac]

Obama has betrayed blacks as a community, failed Americans as a people, and enfeebled the United States as a nation.

If you had to sum up the Obama presidency in a single sentence this could be it.

They should engrave that on his tombstone.