The revelation for everyone black and white is that our government is incredibly incompetent and has eschewed its basic responsibilities across the board. Safety, security and commerce are all compromised and people have realized how fragile our system is and how vulnerable our lives are. Uncle Sam is toothless.
The first clue was Katrina. Many of us chalked up the botched response to the personal incompetence of George Bush but it seems more accurate in hindsight to conclude that it is the federal and state governments who failed the people of southern Louisiana.
While the government was busy destroying the United States medical system and botching our relationships worldwide Iran developed nuclear weapons and North Korea developed nuclear ballistic warheads for their ICBMs which can reach the west coast of the US. An Islamofascist caliphate has been established and a pandemic is developing unchecked in Africa. We are involved in direct miltary action in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and likely a few other places not known to the public.
Obama has personally failed to end a single war or even to simply close our national concentration camp. He intends, apparently, to flood our country with immigrants when it is least able to sustain them. He is either unwilling or unable to respond appropriately to the Ebola threat.
Black people are screwed but then so is everyone else. Rely on none other than yourselves.