"For black political culture that dominated after the civil-rights movement, the point was not just equal treatment under the law, but special treatment under the law – plus the assumption that more black political power, defined by more blacks holding office, would mean that blacks would be better off.
"In other words, post-civil-rights movement black political culture embraced an agenda exactly the opposite of what the civil-rights movement was about. Its agenda was to get laws and policies that were not neutral but racially slanted and to put individuals in power based on their race and not on their character and capability.
"So, according to the script of this political culture, election of a black man as president meant more than an end to racism. The conclusion had to be that if the man holding the highest political office in the nation was black, it must follow that blacks would be better off.
"Now blacks have a dilemma. We have a black president, and blacks are worse off. Not just a little, but a lot worse off.
"In the words of longtime Congressional Black Caucus member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., 'Our people are hurtin'."
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