http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2573231Virginia's first black governor says Obama ignored blacks
By Paul Bedard • 10/5/15 12:01 AM
Virginia's first and only African-American governor says President Obama left blacks in the dust and built an administration that "turned its back on core supporters in favor of holding hands with its enemies."
L. Douglas Wilder, in his new autobiography Son of Virginia, expressed deep disappointment with America's first black president, calling him "aloof" and "tone deaf" to blacks' needs, leaving African-Americans to ask, "When is our time coming?"
Wilder, governor from 2005-09, and who served twice as mayor of Richmond, wrote, "This was not the 'hope and change' president we had expected."
Worse, in his otherwise inspirational book about growing up the grandson of slaves in the cradle of the Confederacy, Wilder charged that black America is worse off under Obama. Describing what voters told him during Obama's reelection campaign, Wilder wrote, "I was distressed by the deep well of unhappiness I felt as voters repeatedly described the ways in which they were worse off than they'd been at the beginning of President Obama's term."
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