Letters to the Editor
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It's all racially driven for blacks to back Obama
All these talks of Hillary's losing the block of black vote is her own undoing is ludicrous. Before the result of Iowa primary came out, African Americans doubted if one of their own could ever be favored by the whites. Immediately after that, for the first time in the history of this nation, a truly viable black candidate has become highly viable and electable with the unanticipated support of white voters. Then came the frenzy to defect from overwhelmingly supporting Hillary to becoming solid block of Obama backers. It's all about identifying one candidate through an emotionally-driven perspective along racial line. What Obama has done for the black community is peanut compared to what the Clintons have achieved over the last 18 years. This distorted, misguided and misplaced loyalty towards Obama by over 90% of African-Americans because of his skin color show how the black community is so eager to reverse the pain and humiliation by flocking to one of their own and hoping to push him to the top never mind how much Obama has done for them or if he is genuinely a white man in disguise of a black. It's a vast and powerful political capital to claim to be black or white whenever and wherever it fits. The truth is, no matter what the Clintons say or do over the course of this campaign, these perfidious and naive African Americans will switch to Obama in droves anyway, just as those self-professed intellectuals and gullible college kids did over their overrated idealism and elitism. So don't blame the Clintons for the black mutiny. The African-Americans have every right to choose side though I strongly disagree with them. What has Obama done to deserve their unreserved and overwhelming support beside his skin color?