"It's bad enough when I am told that I have no interest or that I won't show up to vote when in fact evidence this cycle (and past cycles) have shown otherwise"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg i?f=/c/a/2004/11/03/MNG5B9KH4C1.DTL

OMG, I just mojoed Canadian gal!

But the issue is whether America is Not Guilty, and how you fight it. Two subjects. AAs first.  

As to AAs. it used to be blatant, but is on its way out but not gone yet. Now it is not legal, and the laws are mostly neutral, so it is a fight against the holdouts.  I think o made a deliberate choice, until forced by the Wright mess, to soft pedal or no-pedal the race issue, which is why he was such a  bland, cool policy wonk early on, mocked for his dumpy suit. The middle class black tradition is in any event one which in public Does Not act out on such things, no matter what may be said around the kitchen table. Except for what the Wright thing threw out and some stuff which was occasioned by Discouraging Words of others, if you didn't have photos, or read the books, how much would you really know? The racism fight as to AAs is now at a more subtle level, at which point is the argument about experience based on the unstated premise that black people are always less qualified, or lazy, stereotypes recycled with new dressing and at which point is such a legitimate comment and not a smoke screen for something nasty. A tougher question, but still one which must be addressed, once you saw the comments that O was lazy because he went to visit gramma in Hawaii with the kids and ate cheeseburgers, during the Olympics.

Anyway, his position is that we are trying to play through and beyond the old war days to somethng more perfect. And he and everyone else who addresses it admits it will not be an easy move, that next round of transition. We are perfectable but not perfect.  And he's not wrong. My kids, whose father was AA, understand it differently than their parents did, although they both adjust for racism every day of their lives in smaller ways.

But a flat out statement of non-racism is not on either. Second issue. I am looking at what is happening to Latinos, citizens and legal or not, and that has everything to do with race. As if it is no longer appropriate in public to do that to AAs, but OK now for Latinos because you can wrap it in the idea of their all being illegal, even the ones born here from parents born here who must be as careful to carry ID when driving while Latino in the same way AAs have to be careful when driving while black. And yes, there have been Latino citizens born here who were deported to Tijuana, who had to be retrieved. Part of it is culture, because most white Americans are not in the generations which itself immigrated and who have gotten their assimilation done, and forgtten how long it took and how hard it was, or that their ancestors ever had to do it. A lot more of that than before because Latinos are being drawn by jobs to places which were not formerly places which saw much in the way of immigrants of any kind except uncle Sven or the second cousins.

And, oh yes, Middle Eastern-Americans, especially those not Christian. Somehow Bosnian and British Muslims simply don't have the same problems here. Thousands of young men were simply rounded up a few years ago, because of this, and not with any probable cause they had done anything wrong, and held for weeks or months unless some small imperfection were found.  

And this campaign has not begun to consider Native Americans, who are as much behind the racial eight ball as they ever were.

I left them out of my comment because the diary was couched specifically to race and the diarist identified himself as AA.  glbt and women have a parallel issue but race is not, usually, that particular issue. Trying to stay on point.

Win!

It may be more appropriate to say that his organization and etc. outweighed whatever race issues the voters and caucusers had. There are lots of AAs who won't vote for him either and lots of Scots-Irish who see him but the problem with him is they can't find what he is going to do for them. It's in the mix, which is better than before, when it once would have been seen and that would have been the end of thought, rather than something which had to fight it out against his other virtues.

that's why john lewis switched.

Both candidates needed the superdelegates to win, and Obama won them because of the implied threat of chaos and problems with the A.A. community.

It's politically incorrect to talk about, but it's true and it's a shame on the anniversary of MLK's speech.

If he goes to NQ, he'd better not mention being Black.

Obama and his supporters are using the benefits of being black at THIS time in America to win.  There are numerous people of good will who want to "move past race" and Obama is playing on their hopes to win.

He could tell them, "Don't vote for me, as some way to move past race". "Vote for me because I'm the best qualified, or have the best plans".

But as you see the reports about the "historical significance", it shows that the subtext of everything is, "we are getting past our racial history".

Perfect example: you do realize people try to kill President's and candidates everyday?

Some nut tries to kill Obama and it's a sympton of America?

No, it's a nut.
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Another example:

95.5 radio here in Wash D.C. asked on the air:
Is the media trying to "divide and conquer" by finding black supporters of Hillary who won't support Barack in November?

Obama's candidacy is built on this nonsense very skillfully.

He can and should move past it tonight.

maybe for you that's true.

But if you watched Oprah and Obama in S.C.

It was about "not letting them stop you from voting".

It was about "all the struggle for the right to vote".

It was about "having the courage" to stand up.

It wasn't that way in Iowa. It wasn't that way in NH.

It was that was in S.C., Georgia, etc.

Tonight is Obama's chance to repudiate the cynical campaign and start fresh with a POTUS campaign on issues.

He's been posting the same sort of stuff since last year at least.  

I'd go with the latter of your two choices, if they were the only options.  

Like McCain, yellowdem1129 is drastically misguided about many issues, but he's not a troll.