You people are asking what Obama did for African Americans. Well, America isn't Nigeria where he could order a minister to build a University in his village, or a road in his state. Yet, the records are there if you truly care to see them.

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Under Obama, the poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999. While the poverty rate fell for across all racial and ethnic groups in 2016, it fell 2.1 percentage points (p.p.) for African Americans.

What did Obama do for blacks?

Obama left office with a record of 8 million minority-owned firms in the U.S.— a 38% increase since 2007, a year before he became president.

The incarceration rates for African-American (wo)men fell during each year of the Obama Administration and were at their lowest points in over two decades. The imprisonment rates for African-American men and women were at their lowest points since the early 1990s and late 1980s.

Under Obama, high school graduation rate for African-American students was at its highest point in history. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 72.5 percent of African-American public high sch students graduated within 4 yrs. Over 1m MORE black and Hispanics enrolled in college.

Under Obama, life expectancy at birth was the highest ever for African Americans. In 2014, life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years for African-American males and 78.4 for African-American females, the highest point in the historical series for both genders.

Under Obama, teen pregnancy among African-American women was at a historic low. The birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females fell from 60.4 in 2008, before Obama entered office, to 34.9 in 2014.

Since the start of ObamaCare's first open enrollment period at the end of 2013, the uninsured rate among non-elderly African Americans declined by more than half. Over that period, about 3 million uninsured nonelderly, African-American adults gained health coverage.

Obama enacted permanent expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which together provided about 2 million African-American working families with an average tax cut of about $1000 each.

Under Obama, the number of people in poverty fell by 3.5 million, leading the poverty rate to fall, the largest one-year drop since 1968, with even larger improvements including for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and children.