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• Tuesday, April 1, 2008 05:23 AM

  to Katetex

  I grew up in the Detroit area and lived in Detroit and am well aware of racial politics. Detroit Mayer Coleman Young was reelected over and over again for little reason other than he was black. It certainly was not because he was a good mayer.

  Barack Obama is my Senator and he is no Coleman Young. He isn't even former Chicago Mayer Harold Washington who himself wasn't above some racial politics. He isn't playing that game at all or they are so low-level in this race they are almost non-existent because even I can't catch them.

  I lay the racial split to several things, one is a knee-jerk reaction to Hillary Clinton's remark about MLK which might have been awkward with the lack of awarness of what MLK means in the black community but wasn't racist, and one is a definate suspician of Bill Clinton's remarks in SC which even I caught. The only reason to bring up Jesse Jackson is to conflate Obama with other black politicians. Laying the history of previous black politicians at the feet of current black politicians to me is a dog whistle to the whites. It works too.

  Maybe the "racial split" was inevitable since the Black community is supporting a Black man. So what? He is their candidate and good for them. They are only 15% of the population. If you want to support Hillary because she is white and you are suspicious of black politicans that is your own business also, but don't pretend Obama made you do it.

  —peeps1 Read peeps1's other letters
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