Letters to the Editor
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@ Uncle Fester, it's more like black empowerment than black power.
I have been doing a bit of research and will try to post some links tomorrow. I have to admit that I was a bit upset at first by the "Goddamn America" bit, but I calmed down. The part about the U.S. government deliberately spreading AIDS among black people in order to eliminate them is a bit harder to swallow. Everybody has to have their conspiracy theories I guess, but Obama is walking evidence that black people and white people have been known to mate.
The problem is that no matter how this plays out in the primary, the Republicans can resurrect it at any time -- like October. Obama better do some awful good talkin' tomorrow.
Actually, I don't just see this as affecting the Obama campaign but also affecting the perception of Democrats. Even if Hillary becomes the nominee, this sort of stuff can still affect her. I was hoping for the two of them on the same ticket as the only way to heal the wounds of the primary season. Hillary would get many of the women, working class voters and a good portion of Latinos. Obama would bring the African Americans and the latte liberals. John McCain could get the people who want to be in Iraq one hundred years.
Black voters need to realistic. Obama just has to somehow distance himself from this "evil" Trinitarian church so that the can appeal to general Trinitarians everywhere. The Dems already have the Unitarians. ;)