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Black Americans' love for Bill Clinton is built on a fallacy. - By Melissa Harris-Lacewell - Slate M

In many ways, the scandal-marred, deeply partisan years of the Clinton administration proved disappointing in the face of such early optimism. Welfare reform, the growth of black imprisonment, and the public abandonment of progressive African-Americans like Lani Guinier are some of the most memorable racial disappointments of those years.