“I talk to people, you know, who thought he would just have a magic wand,” said Ira Acree, a pastor on the city’s South Side, where Obama worked as a community organizer, taught law and still has a house. (…)
“Being the first black president, most black people thought he was going to turn everything around (and) everything would be better for the underprivileged, the black people,” Mangum said. “The expectations were really big.”
