The first black president is also the president who has spearheaded the militarization of local police forces, whose administration has sided with the police in every Supreme Court case involving excessive force and misconduct, whose Justice Department has refused to prosecute a single policeman for civil rights violations in the murder of black youth and workers.
Obama is a living refutation of the claims made by groups such as Black Lives Matter, and their pseudo-left apologists, that the elevation of African-Americans to positions of influence within the structure of American imperialism will improve the conditions of life for the vast majority of the oppressed.
There is legitimate and widespread anger over police violence, which has erupted in mass protests over the past year, since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This anger is connected to deep class grievances over ever-rising economic inequality, unemployment and poverty, as well as racism by police directed at African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities.
Black Lives Matter does not represent this sentiment. It speaks on behalf of a section of the middle class, wedded to race politics, that is looking for more perks and positions, particularly within or through the intercession of the Democratic Party. That is why its protest actions have been directed towards the Democratic candidates in the presidential campaign.
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