Obama and Race Relations: Civil Rights Leaders Aren't Satisfied

Some thought the first African American president would herald in a new post-racial era

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Obama has been in office only a few months, of course, and even the most impatient civil rights leaders agree on at least one thing: They want him to succeed. But as the first black president moves on to his next hundred days, there seems to be an increased willingness to hold him to his own high standards. "People are still coming up to me and saying they've been inspired by Obama. But they want the change to be real. That's what people are most eager for," says Jealous. "Life hasn't changed that much, but expectations are higher."

As time goes by, they seem likely to get higher still.

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erin of CA 8:26PM February 21, 2010

Hmm... It is quite strange how pigs would fly when America has a black president. And now, the swine flu. Wow. The swine flew, all right.

LIMITED WARRANTY of DC 9:00PM June 07, 2009

Why would anyone think that the election of a Black president a hundred days ago would change what has stubbornly hung on for the past 2 or 3 hundred years. Prejudice which continues to reenforce itself thru the media, television and most aspects of daily life cannot be defeated while the stereotypes of Blacks continues on a daily basis in most aspects of our lives. Blacks themselves continue to feed these views by buying in to these stereotypes. We continue to run around with our pants dragging on the ground, fooling ourselves that looking like a criminal is cool. We lament the lack of any shows on TV showing real Black life of any kind that portrays us in a positive light. The Blacks with money who could put shows like this on TV instead choose to produce shows that continually reenforce stereotypes about us because it sells, but to who, few of these shows last more than a season or two! No it's going to take more than an occaisional positive racial blip on the screen of race relations in this country to change the widely perceived views held by mmost of White America about Blacks!

C.Gwin Jr of WA 3:00AM May 04, 2009

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