Reply #40: Did you know that Obama wrote the Foreword to the National Urban League 2007 State of Black America? [View All]

[EffieBlack]

This is certainly not a man who has to engage in symbolic acts to "prove" he's down with the brothers.

And judging from the reaction I've seen from African Americans around the country, most of us completely understand why Obama's not going to New Orleans - everyone seems politically sophisticated enough to fully comprehend that Obama needs to campaign hard in Texas and Ohio to get the nomination and that his time is much better spent in those states this weekend than at Tavis Smiley's talkfest.