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We recently witnessed the wholesale destruction of a heavily black region of the United States. The largest disaster in U.S. history--American citizens (many of them black) literally starving to death on live T.V. while the rest of the country watched. A little over a year after Katrina, how many Americans who were unaffected by the disaster even still think about it? How much of the damage in the Gulf region has been repaired?
Consider that for a minute, then ask yourself whether a black man could win the presidency in 2008.
