>And a lot of these complaints against Obama on black issues
>are about the symbolic stuff he did or didn't do, or stuff in
>his speeches he did or didn't say. I agree with some of the
>criticisms, but I think that stuff is trivial compared to the
>concrete ways that actual progressive legislation would help
>black people in this country. But again, that legislation has
>to go through the the 60th most liberal senator.


I feel like most of the criticism I see by Black folks about Obama have to do with his "respectability" politics and him "talking down to Black people", but almost never have anything to do with his actual policies. They don't actually talk about the good or bad his actual policies or decisions have done for Black folks. It's always, "He talked down to us!"