By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Last year, when Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama was fending off silliness about his not being black enough, I wrote that any lessons he might have missed about the black condition in his 46 years on this earth, he’d learn them by the time his campaign was over.
And boy, is he ever.
It seems that Obama’s lawmaking record, his platform, his stable family or his character -- the stuff that so many Americans claimed to care about after former president Bill Clinton got caught up in his peccadilloes -- won’t be dealmakers or deal-breakers when it comes to whether many white people will vote for him. They’d rather judge Obama by what a black person who isn’t running for president says.
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