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Joan,
I was at the Oakland rally with Ted Kennedy. I am Asian. There were quite a few of us there. There were also quite a few Latinos there (did you happen to miss the "Latinos for Obama" signs waved around or the deafening "Si Se Puede" chants started on the stage behind Kennedy by some Latinas and Latinos?). The event was very Oakland - diverse, multi-generational, and - yes - a little bit granola. And like a true Oakland rally - we couldn't do without our beloved Rep. Barbara Lee. She is after all the only one who cast a "No" vote for the Iraq war way back when. And she did that in the face of total opposition. That took the kind of courage that could only come out of a community that fiercely prides itself on encouraging the hippie values of the past: multiculturalism and world peace.
Please don't belittle the East Bay/Oakland area or the Obama campaign by misrepresenting the rally as "ebony and ivory."
I know you're an editor with an opinion. But an "Op-ed" piece doesn't entitle you to miscast factual reality does it?
Do better. You're not representing the character of your Hillary campaign well with such editorial practices.
