Back in 2008, a black conservative friend, a college professor, said he voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama for president. “Obama,” he said, “is post-Jesse Jackson. No more race card. And, with a black president, young blacks will start hitting the books a lot harder. They will see that racism is no barrier to the highest possible achievement.”

I saw but one possible silver lining. When Obama’s tax/spend/regulate policies fail to achieve the expected results, many blacks will do some soul-searching. “I always thought our ‘plight’ had to do with the President really not caring about us,” some black voters will begin to ask. “But not any more because Obama most assuredly cares. But unemployment has gone up.”