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(OK, let me get this straight. 90~95% of black people can vote for Obama and it's not racist. Yet you feel a need to travel all over the U.S. to find whites who might be turned off by his color...after he won in lilly-white Iowa, and is garnering respectable white numbers even in polls now?...)
...because blacks have voted for white candidates on the local, state and national levels and they've voted for them, often, at near unanimous levels, since blacks belatedly got the right to vote. Even when they've had black candidates on the ticket (see Sharpton vs. Edwards in 2004 southern Democratic primaries, to name just one instance).
Conversely, I've seen European American members of the media congratulate themselves and the white demographic to which they belong when, rarely and prior to the advent of Obama, it voted barely over a third in pctage for a black candidate (see the NYDailyNews and the NYTimes in the aftermath of the '89 vote for Mayor in NYC--the liberal overwhelmingly Democratic bastion of the Americas--when Dinkins got 36 to 38 pct of the white vote against a then hot-headed tyro, Rudolph Giuliani).
In the above regard, blacks have met their burden of proof.
This "sham" of equivalency some posters and (the more shameless) members of the media insist on bringing up in certain instances-especially, in regard to race--is just another example of utterly pathetic, nonsensical denial.
