There have been a few changes

So the answer is yes?

I see there are still people willing to gush like schoolgirls.

"A generation of wealth and assets are evaporating, and the presidential candidates aren't making a peep about it," said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 40, a doctoral candidate in African-American studies at Northwestern. "We're talking about historic changes in manufacturing, and these are systemic changes in the economy and in the midst of this, people are being left behind."

Taylor said that although both of her parents had doctorates, they divorced when she was young, and her family's grip on the middle class was sometimes tenuous.

"I grew up with a single black woman who had two kids," she said. "At various points, we had a middle-class existence. But my family struggled during the economic recession of the 1980s and my mother had to file for bankruptcy and we had to sell our house.

So Michele Obama was a black child 4 years ago???

That said, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson grew up as a black child in Jesse Jackson's household.
Yes, Really.

That's a great juxtaposition, EBD.

Did Moooochelle demonstrate her batleth technique?

'....and Barack said "why don't you touch it?"'

... why not? seems to have worked for Bill Clinton.

Barney Frank suckered them into signing their equity over to the banks for the hope of owning a house 30 years down the road.

This is all part of the plan. The more groups he can form, and the angrier he can make those groups, plays perfectly into the identity politics game. It is not a bug, but a feature of the Obama administration!

Are blacks willing to see their incomes plummet in the short term, on the promise of riches in the second term of O's presidency, when he taxes the wealthy out of their assets?

That seems to be the prevalent idea if one is black and/or stupid.

Apparently Michelle has never had as a easy a gig as working for the City of Chicago throught the auspices of Rev Jesse. While others worked Michelle read her novels.

Sorry. I guess the current gig is pretty decent. Big mansion with the promise of the 'rubber chicken' circuit post retirement (firing).

it was certainly different for the Obama spawn.luxury holidays a dog

"this is one of the things I love about Barack, he's so used to having strong women in his life...You know, he grew up with a single mom, his grandmother was the true head of the household. He married me..." (Emphasis mine.)

I downright dislike her.

Oz @1:05 - but to hear her tell it, her childhood was a near-Dickensian grind; or at least, her parents were downtrodden and overlooked. And yet we hear this account of her practically growing up chez Jesse Jackson. Both stories can't be true.

(I'll add that peope who are barely literate at a Junior High School level do not get accepted into Ivy League Humanities programs without connections.)

The Obama presidency has benefitted precisely four black people: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and their two children.

The fellow couldn't even spare a few bucks to send to his half-brother in Kenya.

The above statement requires modification: Obama is mulatto not black.

It will take American blacks 50 years to get back what they lost from this Golfer. Its like striking. Uless you get wage ingresses like the public service at 10%, you loose that money forever. At least at private Union strikes. Public UN ions have only made strikes inevitable. Three is no pain or principle left , for there is no pain & loss for striking to give it any real meaning.To the public service it just a gew more weeks off . Paid yet.