Where the Obamas could do some good

Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate.

Barack and Michelle, who enjoy posturing as moral leaders, are uniquely positioned to make a difference here. Maybe less time could be spent on the golf course or cavorting in Marbella, a little time and eloquence spent on this instead. The problem is, of course, that the black vote is already securely in the Democrat pocket, so why bother? Man of high principle? It's a sad, sick joke.

Obama started out as a "community organizer," so maybe it would help to put the problem in terms that might even penetrate his narcissistic fog: You cannot make an organized community out of disorganized neighborhoods, and you cannot make an organized neighborhood out of disorganized families. Not exactly rocket surgery. The black family is a catastrophe, the legacy of a toxic combination of (1) inattention to the critical problem of black male unemployment and (2) disastrously misguided social programs that encourage dependency and mitigate against family formation.

But the Obamas are AWOL on this, just as they're AWOL on the related and monumentally tragic debacle of inner-city school systems -- the problem being, of course, the political necessity to kow-tow to the urban teachers unions, a miserably immoral stance if there ever was one. As far as I can see, the only principle Obama operates on is unalloyed political self-interest.

Liberals love to play the race card, and I'd like to see it played one more time, hard. I'd like to see some black individuals of stature make a public statement denouncing the Obamas for the race traitors they are. What else can you call people who, for one example, have their daughters in a top-flight private school, then stand by and allow unions to kill the one program that allowed less well-positioned black kids the same opportunity? What other name for that is there?

The Obamas combine the worst traits of the traditional Black Bourgeoisie and political arrivistes of any race. Someone of color needs to stand up and call these people out, loudly and publicly; denounce the soaring, moralistic rhetoric for the unmitigated crap it is.

THEN we'll get that "dialog on race" so many on the left claim to want.

Byron