Bottom line problem: No black or brown person will be on any primary ballot

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79. I agree with you but I think the initial reluctance by black electeds to back Obama...

...was informed by just this conundrum... Bush left a mess... for the first black president running on a "Hope & Change, jettison the old fights from the 1930s and 1960s and move on" candidacy to fix this mess for young voters, white liberals and progressives, white independents and Republicans thinking electing a black person would end race as a political issue, AND minorities WHILE pleasing ALL of these groups AND solving significant longstanding American problems was a pipe dream!

As much as the President accomplished (which is literally being obscured day by day by Trump's attempts to erase him with his accomplices in media and the electorates acquiescence), his Presidency, as we feared, is like climbing mt Everest or the "moon shot" ... a goal that came within reach, was achieved, and now is viewed as something America has done but cannot practically do AGAIN because it is too expensive or complicated! Hence no Kamala who has no executive experience or "national daddy" factor, no Deval who has executive experience and financial acumen but no ideological charisma, and no Cory who has executive experience in a troubled "chocolate city", no daddy factor due to his youthful ebullient persona, and the TOO SOON factor in an America traumatized by a black man in the White house so SOON after the first one!

America can still say it is the only nation to put a man on the moon and the most significant developed first world nation to make an untouchable member of a reviled minority President. But your institutional racism point is spot on when a black man whose background and political demeanor gave large swaths of the American electorate a comforting sense of his neutrality on the issue of advocacy for black Americans and the moment he "went there" and empathized with Trayvon Martin, wore a brown suit, or supposedly distributed free iPhones to blacks near and far THAT'S when the Obama to Trump voters lost confidence in him! But seriously even as Obama took office Patrick was nearing the end of his term as Governor, corruptoids like Kilpatrick were being drummed out in Detroit, black Republicans like Mia Love and JC Watts were experiencing their unceremonious rise and fall(with the exception of Tim Scott who became the ONLY black in the Senate while the getting was still good thanks to Nikki Haley's deft positioning), and let us not forget black Democratic machines in New York having a governorship drop into their laps which became a hot potato when their political lotto winner couldn't hold the job!