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Whether we liked him or not, the US president took on the job of representing and reflecting black folks’ ambitions, their strengths, their forbearance and, yes, their uncertainties and failures

The community expects Obama to help the poorer sections assimilate rather than pander to the interests of the moneyed elite

At the rock bottom of a society still stratified by race are black men. The only way to change their outcomes is to see and talk about them differently — as human beings and Americans