News Flash: Obama Lies
#8

NOT FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT"

In his campaign book The Audacity of Hope (2006), Obama tried to demonstrate his distance from black Americans who "angrily" denounce American racism and to curry favor with white middle class voters (many of whom want to think that racism and hence legitimate black anger is a "thing of the past") by claiming that "What ails working- and middle-class blacks is not fundamentally different from what ails their white counterparts" [17]. I am quite certain that he knew this statement to be thoroughly false in a nation where persistent, many-sided institutional racism continues to inflict wildly disproportionate poverty and misery on the black community [18]. A former community organizer, lawyer, and state legislator on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is too smart and too acquainted with basic social facts of U.S. life to believe his statement in Audacity. That would make his statement a lie.