Barack Obama, The Black Middle Class and The Poor

Will President Elect Barack obama be able to address the issue of gentrification, unemployment, black Economic losses, poverty, hunger, infant mortality, the prison industrial complex, a failing education system, and a mortgage crisis that has all but destroyed the black middle class? Will blacks and progressives, liberals set realistic expectations and evaluate Obama not by his tremendous symbolic and social importance or his ability to cure every social problem confronting us, but by his actions around specific issues affecting black communities.