OPINION:
Former President Barack Obama follows the tried-and-true Democratic playbook of damning America’s White majority for the problems in the African American community (“Barack Obama, ever the racial arsonist,” web, June 21).
Although he knows better, he defaults to the easiest path lest his own ethnic community criticize him as they did early in his presidency when he spoke to pathologies in their midst.
It’s so much easier to harmonize with the race hustlers, race baiters and party bigwigs who have cooked this half-baked stew to electoral perfection.
Slavery and anti-Black racism are America’s greatest historical stains, but the country’s leaders have worked mightily to ameliorate the injustices.
Black Republican presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott acknowledges this and sees what Mr. Obama is politically reluctant to state: that with policies to enhance school choice and provide new ideas to reduce poverty, the GOP might get a fair hearing from Black Americans who have been poorly served by Mr. Obama and his party.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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