"Charlie Swim wasn't finished, and his voice was rising. "The black people in America were doing all right, working their way up the ladder, until drugs came along. Then welfare, and payments to single mothers--when you pay poor people not to work and not to marry they are going to take the money. Barry Soetoro had a real chance to do something about what's taken black America down--drugs, welfare rather than work, kids without wedlock--but he didn't bother." Swim's voice became sarcastic. "Climate change is his cause, and discrimination against Muslims. And expensive golf vacations." His voice rose to a roar. "I'm sick of this self-proclaimed black messiah!"