The white people pick and choose Uncle Tom's to carry on business as usual. Hell if it wasn't for JFK we might still have to be attending all black schools for the most part. Wasn't J. Edgar Hoover of black ancestry? And no man has done more harm to the black community than him.
The hammer has to come from the TOP to put a nail down. It's not just about having a black politician, it's about having a politician that will enforce your rights, and enforce the people he commands to enforce said rights. Locally It took JFK sending soldiers to allow black kids to peacefully attend predominantly white schools.
And you idiots are stuck on some "it's the people's fault" type steez. The people did what they could, which is elect an official who campaigned in their faces to vote him in so he could bring the change America needs. And the minorities responded. And now that he's in he's too busy and too non-partisan for us