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President Barack Obama hasn’t done enough for “black America.” That’s the take away from a recent article in The Daily Princetonian, which cites several scholars associated with Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies.

The article largely quotes Eddie Glaude Jr., currently a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Princeton center’s chairman:

“Glaude contends Obama’s approach to breaking the political gridlock in Washington has been right-of-center and has left his promised progressive agenda unfulfilled. …

“Of course, you have to consider the scale of the economic crisis, but when you look at housing, the job market, rates of incarceration and the health care crisis, black America has really suffered,” Glaude said.

Glaude said he does not believe the black community is necessarily better off now than it was four years ago, despite representation in the White House. Glaude said he does not expect Obama to govern specifically with blacks in mind but added that the president has failed to use targeted policies needed to support some of society’s most vulnerable communities.”

The article goes on to name Princeton professor Cornel West as another example of a black scholar dissatisfied with Obama, as well as cites quotes from an interview Princeton Professor Imani Perry gave to The Root website in November in which she said:

“ … she did not “assume [Obama] would have particular concern for black communities,” because black leaders in the president’s administration in the past, such as Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, have not advocated policies that benefit blacks.

“They are national political figures who claimed their African-American identities but whose political allegiances and priorities differed from the vast majority of African Americans,” she elaborated.”

Read the full story at The Daily Princetonian.

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