Naturally, the Democrats want us to forget all that. They also want us to forget that almost every other racial and ethnic group has risen out of the Great Recession - largely thanks to the wealth effect of Federal Reserve and European Central Bank quantitative easing, not so much anything done by Mr. Obama or other Democrats - except for black Americans. But, of course, for Democrats, It does not matter that the long and sordid history of Democratic plantation-style paternalism - from Jim Crow to the welfare state - has not only failed black communities, but kept them dependent on Democratic party elites for morsels of beneficence, instead of on their prodigious homegrown wits and resources. 

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