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By Jack Dunphy On November 12, 2014 

On the afternoon of January 20, 2009, just a few hours after President Obama was sworn in for his first term, I was in a marked police car and driving through South-Central Los Angeles.  The atmosphere in the area was festive – unusual in a place where there is not often much cause for celebration.  I was stopped at a red light on a busy street, and when the light changed to green I started to drive through the intersection when something in the corner of my eye caused me to brake.  There, gliding through the red light as casually as you please, was a young black man on a bicycle.  Wearing a T-shirt adorned on the front with a picture of the new president, he passed in front of my car and, looking directly at me, raised a fist in the air and shouted, “Obama!”

In due course we were engaged in conversation.  “President Obama says you still have to stop for the red lights,” I told him.  Minutes later he was pedaling on his way, perhaps slightly less ebullient at having received his traffic ticket.  Why should he have allowed such a minor inconvenience as a traffic ticket mar the New Day that had only just dawned?

If today you were to visit the intersection where I very nearly flattened that young man, you would find the neighborhood much as it was that day six years ago.  Unemployment and crime remain higher than in most other areas of Los Angeles, characteristics that are sadly reflected in inner-city neighborhoods from coast to coast.  And though I cannot be absolutely certain of this, I suspect that if today I were to speak to that young man I nearly flattened, I would find him six years older but otherwise much the same: poor, unemployed, and all but unemployable.

But for that young man on that Inauguration Day, and for so many others in South-Central Los Angeles, as in similar parts of Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and, yes, St. Louis, all was sunshine and lollipops.  President Obama, it was widely believed, would soon fix everything.

And now, six years on, what has become of all those golden dreams that once wafted along on the sweetly scented breezes of Hope and Change? 

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