My english is not good enough, I think. What's the problem in phrase "we're going to work on our, the ghettos" 
the people living "there" don't like very much to be described in such a way...besides the point that those mostly aren't in the "inner cities" anymore.
it's a simple gaffe, helping mostly with those who are neither black nor living in "ghettos".
Home city of Obama, Chicago bulldozed their "ghettos" i.e. housing projects and gentrified the whole area. Many left to Milwaukee, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, etc others were too sick or old and died with no homes. Great work, Chicago.
Why are you trying to tie Obama to it, he isn't the one who makes that kind of decision.
