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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (21743)	5/17/2008 12:46:14 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Surely some of Obama's support comes from a perspective of racial solidarity and nothing else. It's the same factor, IMHO, that has made Al Sharpton a heavy weight. And what I don't/can't understand is how I perceive a lot of Black folks taking a political attack on Obama as a racial attack. They wouldn't think twice about the same thing if it was a political attack on a white person. At least that is how I see it. As soon as Bill Clinton took on Obama in SC it galvanized the Black support for Obama irrespective of the issues. And it also strikes me that Obama's supporters act Holier than thou in this regard toward Hillary's supporters. Why shouldn't there be a reaction of racial solidarity in both races? Obama's supporters want a pass on this. (I am not saying Obama target's his message this way.) Working class whites arguably support Hillary for lots of reasons other than race--its just that a lot of people in the Obama fan club, IMHO, see nothing else--only a racial element in white support of Hillary. This point is made eloquently by the film that won the academy award 2 years ago (whose name I can't remember--one word I think).