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Black's are not voting for Obama just because he's black. That's not to say we aren't extremely proud of him. Pat Buchanon defends white voters choosing not to vote for Obama becasue he's black by saying we're only voting "for" him because he's black. The problem with that flimsy argument is that we black people have a tendency to vote our self interests no matter what color the candidate. It just happened in Tenessee with a young black woman who ran against Steve Cohen (white AND Jewish). She attempted to smear him and say he's not "one of us". He won in a predominantly black district by a landslide. Why? Becasue he's a good man and he speaks to the issues that most concern his constituents. We take our right to vote very seriously for reasons I don't have to mention here.
I've always been amused by white people who actually thought Colin Powell would get the black vote had he run for office. Not true. Once he aligned himself with the Republican Party and the Bush Administration the only votes he'd have received would have been from black republicans.
