five years later, do black lives matter?

We got the politicians (ten years after Rustin’s call, there were several hundred black elected officials) — culminating in the 2008 election of Barack Obama — but not the welfare state. . Obama’s public scolding was not precisely over the question of “electoral politics,” but..

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obama launches campaign rallies in key states

No Republican has made it to the White House in the last century without winning the state. Obama bested rival John McCain there in 2008. . Ohio has struggled with a loss of manufacturing jobs, but its unemployment rate, at 7.5 percent in March, is below the national average, which was 8.2..

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