It may be too soon to label it a trend and there is insufficient data to confirm it, but President Obama and his party may be losing their iron grip on their most loyal and enthusiastic voting bloc: African-Americans.

Last Friday in Chicago, a group of black residents of the city’s South Side staged a protest against the violent shootings that are becoming as commonplace as White Sox games at U.S. Cellular Field. It wasn’t just the protest that should concern the administration and Democrats; it was the language used by some of the protesters, many of whom at the time of the president’s 2009 inauguration likely joined other African-Americans in worshipping at the Obama shrine.