Not Just Any Black Man … But The Right One

J.J. Jackson* | February 18, 2007

Barack Obama is right. America WILL vote for a black person for President. But they will have to over come the bigotry of the Democrat Party apparently based on comments by black Democrats like Sen. Robert Ford of Charleston.

“At every turn in our history, there’s been somebody who said we can’t,” the Democratic senator from Illinois told a nearly all-black audience of about 2,000 at Claflin University.

“Some people said we can’t do this, we can’t do that, so we shouldn’t even try. If I have your support, if I have your energy and involvement and commitment and ideas, then I’m here to tell you, ‘Yes we can.”‘

The comments drew the loudest ovation during a question-and-answer session in his first campaign swing through South Carolina, an early voting state.

The first-in-the-South contest here is seen as a test of candidates’ abilities to reach black voters. Half of the state’s Democratic primary voters are black.

Obama responded to comments this past week by Democratic state Sen. Robert Ford of Charleston, who helped mobilize black voters for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004, but has switched to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential race.

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“Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose — because he’s black and he’s top of the ticket. We’d lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything,” Ford said.

American will vote for someone with dark skin. But it has to be the right person with dark skin. Not just someone who has a (D) next to their name. At least I hope that Barack Obama, running around the country pimping socialism is not what the American people think of as the right black person for President.

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