Note: BC welcomes Perry Redd as a columnist. �The Other Side of the Tracks� will appear on a regular basis.

Another appointment, another disappointment is how I describe the progression of the Obama administration.� There were grand hopes, as well as fears, when it came to speculation on how President Barack Obama would conduct his presidency.� Despite his above-average approval ratings from the general public (the only ones who matter) some are satisfied, but many are not. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey released last week showed Obama's job approval rating at 53%, representing an 8-percentage-point jump since mid-December and his highest since July 2009. Surveys from CNN/Opinion Research and ABC News/Washington Post also put Obama's approval rating above the 50% threshold.�

I am among the throng of supporters of this president who fall into the abyss of disappointment.� This Obama is not the face of July �09, nor do I relate to the faces that surround him.

President Obama appointed 45-year old Jay Carney, who built a career covering politics and presidents before joining the White House himself, to the position of Press Secretary.� The legacy continues.� There is no need for me�or any children that look like me�to think that of the 45million black Americans, that among any of them, they may prove capable of holding any position of significance in my government�s administration activities.� There obviously is not a chance that any of the 2.8 million college-educated black people of this land are being groomed to break that continuum of white privilege.� This is not �hope I can believe in�, because I have lost faith in the icon of change; I can only believe in that which I see.

During my lifetime, going all the way back to Pierre Salinger (and before), the White House Press Secretary has been a white person.� Only two have been women, Dee Dee Myers and Dana Perino.� I remember Jody Powell and James Brady.� I recall the daily faces of George Stephonopoulous and Mike McCurry; Ari Fleisher and Scott McClellan, Tony Snow and Dana Perino.� And even further than that, any and all of the department cabinet appointments of President Obama�s have been white�State, Defense, Treasury. Save the Department of Justice, the President appointed Eric Holder, the only Black person among the 15 senior cabinet positions.� That equates to 6% Black representation among the �President�s Men,� in a country with over a 12% Black population.� Yes, I am insulted.

Who among these people can speak to my concerns?� Who among these people�no, leaders�can understand my complaints, petitions and my cries?� Who among these leaders can know my pain?� And who among these people will urge this inter-racial, post-racial �president of all Americans� to make a place for me in his governing agenda?� You know the answer�that�s why I�m now angry.

It�s not about making history; it�s about doing the right thing.� It�s about including us in the ebb and flow of American politics�even if we�re parrots!� Though Press Secretaries speak for the president, they have some liberty to use critical thinking skills.� What the president has shown is that he has no confidence that people of color�no, Black people�possess critical managerial, administrative or presentation skills to offer this country.� But of course, you are not offended�

President Obama again, committed the predictable.� Long gone are the days of Sonia Sotomayor when conservative voices argued against mythical fears.� Back are the days of safe and status quo choices that raise no hackles with those who mean you the most harm.� Obama tippy-toes around policy and personnel like a fourth-grader seeking an extra piece of birthday cake that ain�t his.� The Right�s got him shook.� And so long as he is shaking, we, the Black populace of America, get the residual rattle�no, earthquake�caused by his quaking boots.

The State of the Union Address of 2011 made it clear that being Black in America is meant to be de-escalated to the status of �invisible.�� Not only am I not to be spoken of or for, but I am also expected to not speak.� Any one thought of or spoken about as a leader of the Black community may be a lion, but he�d better be toothless.� That person better be one who �gets along� and should not be visible�say, press secretary.�

2010 was the year of the Tea Party.� They said they came to �Take their country back.�� But they didn�t have to: President Obama gave it to them, wrapped in a bow.

2010 was the year of the Tea Party.� They said they came to �Take their country back.�� They didn�t have to; President Obama gave it to them, wrapped in a bow.

BlackCommentator.com Columnist Perry Redd is the former Executive Director of the workers rights advocacy, Sincere Seven, and author of the on-line commentary, �The Other Side of the Tracks�. He is host of the internet-based talk radio show, Socially Speaking in Washington, DC. Click here to contact Mr. Redd.