He becomes a champion of black imagination, of black dreams and black possibilities. How does a black writer approach The Man when The Man is not just us, but the Champion of our ambitions? More, how do you approach the offices that have so often brutalized black people when those offices are occupied by the Champion? How do you acknowledge the president's many gifts, his actual accomplishments, while still and all outlining the depressing limits of his own imagination? The president is correct that there is a long history of black leaders addressing "Personal responsibility." But as a diagnosis for what has historically gone wrong in black communities, the tradition is erroneous. So great is this weakness that the experience of black fatherlessness can connect Barack Obama in Hawaii to young black boys on the South Side, and that fact-whatever the charts, graphs, and histories may show-is bracing.
Source: THE ATLANTIC
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