Obama's Monster Has Escaped the Lab, Now What?

For the eight years of his presidency, President Barack Obama nurtured the Hydra-headed monster now rampaging through America's cities.

At a black church in Jackson's Chicago, he scolded black absentee fathers who "Abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men." Obama made the traditionally conservative argument that fatherless children were five times more likely to grow up poor, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and twenty times more likely to get into serious trouble than children who grow up with both parents.

Although the American media did their best to ignore the controversy, Canadian Suzanne Goldenberg, writing for Britain's left-leaning Guardian, reported that Jackson's remarks "Were mirrored on the blogosphere in an outpouring of anger against the campaign's moves to the right." From Jackson's perspective, Obama was neither progressive enough, nor black enough.

For four weeks, the media constructed an aggressively false narrative about the shooting, perhaps best summed up by Miami congresswoman Frederica Wilson: "Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog. He was shot in the street. He was racially profiled." For four weeks, Obama said nothing.

Finally, on that March morning, Obama said for the ages, "My main message is to the parents of Trayvon. You know, if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." In projecting Trayvon as a "Son," Obama strongly suggested that all black children, even the president's imagined son, were equally vulnerable to the predations of white men.

True to form, Obama spoke of Ferguson's Michael Brown much as he had of Trayvon Martin, as a victim.

In 2012, even in 2014, Obama still had the power to ask Black America to look within.

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