Analysis:
The words and analysis presented by Heather MacDonald will likely be rejected by most Black people. They will be repulsed by her attempt to "politicize" the travails of Chicago and other places that are similarly situation. Clearly the article attempts to do an inspection of Obama against the backdrop of "community organizing".
If there was ever a time to "repudiate" someone for exploiting crime and violence within the Black community it is the Black Establishment who needs to be repudiated for so much of their agenda is focused upon the exploitation of these same issues. Only their targets are different.
The Police, the Courts, the Jails, the Drug Wholesalers are the one's that they stand against. They are no different than Heather MacDonald as they go where their ideological inclination leads them.
In the end - the community remains as it has been. This despite the fact that the powers which now control these places have grown in power. They did so largely based upon promises that our community's continued support would be the remedy for what ails these places.
Despite the fact that Ms MacDonald is likely to experience rebuke for her suspect motivations - those who are most likely to make the indictment are the ones with the most blood on their hands because of their proximity to the jugular vein that has been sliced open and allowed to bleed out upon the street.
Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office.
This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly reported on Obama’s community-organizing efforts mentioned that the beating involved students from the very South Side neighborhoods where the president had once worked. Obama’s connection to the area was suddenly lost in the mists of time.
Yet a critical blindness links Obama’s activities on the South Side during the 1980s and the murder of Derrion Albert in 2009. Throughout his four years working for “change” in Chicago’s Roseland and Altgeld Gardens neighborhoods, Obama ignored the primary cause of their escalating dysfunction: the disappearance of the black two-parent family. Obama wasn’t the only activist to turn away from the problem of absent fathers, of course; decades of failed social policy, both before and after his time in Chicago, were just as blind. And that myopia continues today, guaranteeing that the current response to Chicago’s youth violence will prove as useless as Obama’s activities were 25 years ago.
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