I remember how excited the Black community was a year ago when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. True, it was a historic moment when you consider the racial history of America. True, he's a much better president than Bush but I can't help but notice that Black people lately aren't rooting for President Obama as much as we were before he was elected. Has he let us down? Were we expecting too much? Was it all just hype?
Many of the problems in the African American community are issues that must be dealt with on the ground level. I remember last year when Obama stated that he can reform the education system but he can't wake up and take our children to school. However, when Obama was elected we acted as if all of our problems had been solved. We acted as if he was Superman and that he'd fix every problem in the African American community.
