'Waiting for First Black President' Claim an Outrage

In a piece for the Huffington Post, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says that President Obama has fought every day to improve the lives of African Americans, and the author who argued otherwise was likely just trying to sell books.

Last week, Professor Frederick Harris penned an op-ed in the Washington Post lampooning President Obama's commitment to the African American community and made the slanderous claim that we are "Still Waiting For The First Black President."

Harris' main thrust stems from a belief that the President has abandoned the African American community and pursued a "racially defused electoral and governing strategy" for political expediency. He cites an apparent lack of focus from the President on a range of issues including reform of the criminal justice system, addressing the foreclosure crisis, black unemployment, and HIV/AIDS.

But the distortions and omissions of the President's record from a professor at an esteemed university were so egregious that the column begs its readers to question whether the author is merely trying to boost sales of his upcoming book.

Read Michael Nutter's entire piece at the Huffington Post.

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