Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.
![Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward.](http://cdn.myquotes.org/images/julianne-malveaux/black-child-poverty-is-higher-as-i-write-in-the-epilogue-yes-we-can-no-he-didnt-president-barack-obama.jpg)
