TRY TO COUNTER THESE STATEMENT

I think the video explains itself, but most important, I think that general policy discussions and the positions of our current regime over the last eight years absolutely affirm these statements, or at least it doesn't offer evidence to refute them.

BARRACK OBAMA/COURTING THE BLACK VOTE....

What does it say when conservative black voters, and especially religious conservatives among the black community, refuse to or at least have trouble supporting a black presidential candidate? Are you really having to decide between race politics and your religious values? If Barrack Obama doesn't represent the specific issues of parts of the black community while being a black man talking about poverty issues, than what issues are those conservatives who have a problem voting for him identifying as essential to their racial identity? Is it the same question of 'is he black enough?' or does this go beyond that and identify a deep problem in the identity of the African American communities and their disowning other portions of the community?

While being black doesn't equal being poor and living in urban areas, there are enough people who do that we can say there are historically black neighborhoods and that poverty and violence is still an issue identified by many community leaders as very present in their communities. How does addressing these issues in a progressive way, or at least trying to speak to people affected by poverty equal not being an issue to be addressed by the black community?

I don't think this is necessarily about race politics per se. I think that the important part to remember is that his struggle as a person of color coming from a working class background represents many of the issues and struggles of disenfranchised people all over our society. We, the disenfranchised, are desparate for some hope of progressive change, or at least to have our voices heard over the continual rhetoric of conservative white Christian politics we've suffered through for too many years. More than any other president in modern political history, Barrack Obama has the potential to create drastic change in the discourse of US politics, and in how we view ourselves.

Unless it turns out that he has some secret camp where he sends people to be put to death, I'm voting for him and I'm not ashamed. Yes, I'm voting for him because he's a black man, not because it will add color to an otherwise white-washed White House, but because of his experience in an ethnic class and social class that puts him in a different place than other politicians like Alan Keys, and I'm going to vote for him because he brings those experiences with him into his progressive politics, politics that give the potential for real in our civilization, and not just a new name on an old face.