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"(Not that you could tell what I was thinking.)" (4.00 / 2)

What Mark Matson wasn't thinking is more significant than what he was.

Black Agenda Report made an extraordinarily brave and risky assessment of Obama's performance so far, and it's hard for us white guys to guess exactly how much this article may affect their standing in the black community, but there's obviously a very big downside.

In New York City, the rate of unemployment for black men is nearly 50%, and on the rare occasions when anyone asks Obama a question specifically related to black Americans, he retreats into generalities about a strong economy lifting all boats.

50% unemployment for black men in New York City! And all Obama has to say is..."Wait for the tide to come in!"

So Black Agenda report spoke up for the millions of black Americans who haven't been lifted up into prosperity by the boom times, and are likely to suffer disproportionately in the hard times ahead, and BAR took a significant risk to pop the bubble of unthinking adulation that still surrounds Obama.

All praise again to Bruce A. Dixon for his brave report, and if he didn't quite nail his assessment by adorning it with the letter-grade that Obama deserves, it's still worth supplying, IMHO, because Obama only scored 17 on a scale where 55 was passing, and that is so far down in the failing grades that it deserves...


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by: Jacob Freeze @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 04:34:09 AM CDT

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Correction: 22.5 instead of 17. (0.00 / 0)

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by: Jacob Freeze @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 07:27:47 AM CDT

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23.5 (0.00 / 0)

What the heck! This thing seems designed to preserve a little ambiguity in the dismal total, and I'm just doing my part.

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by: Jacob Freeze @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 07:36:05 AM CDT

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24.5 (0.00 / 0)

Including the "hope" point in 13 Environment that got forgotten in the total.  Not that this changes your grading.

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by: Mark Matson @ Mon May 04, 2009 at 12:19:51 PM CDT

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