Letters to the Editor
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It's more about credit where credit due
Many posters have correctly and obviously noted that historically being black, for most of America’s history was a severe disadvantage. Ferraro is an idiot, but she is correct in noting that being black is an advantage for Obama, what she failed to note is that Obama made it an advantage where no other black man has been able to. Within the history of the American black people, this is a great achievement. I am not being snarky or sarcastic, it is an achievement for a race that has been oppressed for generations.
Obama achieved 90% of the black vote by indeed making race an issue, playing the race card for the first time in national politics to a black person’s advantage. Probably long overdue considering how often it has been a liability to be black in this country. But so far it is only within the Democratic primary, in the general election, the way he achieved his support with black people and the overwhelming black support itself could cause enough whites to dig up some good old American racist roots. Who knows? We may never know, he still has not won the Democratic nomination.