Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them?
By Marc Sheppard
Iowa Caucus results quickly shifted many Democrats’ sense of Hillary’s inevitability to one of Barack’s providence. The smooth-talking senator’s surprising historic victory gave fellow blacks and liberal whites a common hope that monumental change was just over the horizon. The happy union didn’t last a week.
Explaining last week’s celebrated upset, Newsday’s Martin Evans told of Obama’s:
“… populist message hat has tapped into the desire of voters here to end decades of infighting between Democrats and Republicans, and to banish traditions of racial politics that have divided white and black voters since Reconstruction.”This euphoric sense of unity appeared to be quite widespread. After all, the media went crazy last December when Oprah Winfrey called Obama “the one” who, as president, “can bring us all together.” And now liberal talking heads and typing fingers were enraptured with what they believed this man — one part John, one part Bobbie, and let’s not forget a dash of Martin — might represent and accomplish if elected. Indeed, the momentum appeared unstoppable as the contest quickly moved into New Hampshire this week with all odds-makers predicting an Obama rout and his candidacy all but assured.
But when his unprecedented coronation didn’t materialize, familiar allegations of possible racial bias did. This was only the first of many primaries and the failure of the only black candidate to emerge victorious already has elicited cries of foul. Ironically, while liberal guilt has historically been both the enabler of minority entitlement and exonerator of its many abuses, the accused bigots in this case were Democrats.
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