Let me tell you a little something about Barack Obama, one of a thousand details that are revealing. Presidents keep and break traditions of the Office as reflect their vision. One tradition that had remained unbroken for decades was to host the National Association of Black

Journalists shortly after taking office. NABJ was formed in 1975 by heavyweights in the business, including Vernon Jarrett, who Obama knew before his passing. Obama shut them out, never had the meeting. Not term one. Not term two. Just the symbolism of this meeting and his snub

of the group is meaningful, but it is much more than that. Revenue is generated for these news outlets out of this meeting in a number of ways I won't get into but that basically have to do with how the feds do public notices and other ways it matters a lot to get to meet with

the President. This revenue in turn goes into the Black community. These are people who hire local, who rent space locally, who do their personal business in the neighborhood because that's who you are when you run a Black community newspaper. Obama in this one decision said he

didn't care whether these outlets, often running on a thread, survived and what that would do to the local economy. Obviously shrunk budgets meant less coverage, less ability to hold officials accountable, less advocacy.

Don't hold your breath waiting on Obama to do better. He

is doing exactly what he intends to do and exactly what he has always done.

File this under "when is a jump shot not a jump shot?"