If Obama wins it will be because he received a majority of the white and black vote.

Would an Obama victory end the struggle for racial equality? No! But a win by Obama would ultimately change the nation’s civil rights establishment, its policies and rhetoric. An Obama win would change affirmative action forever.

To Ward Connerly, large numbers of white voters willing to vote for a black man signals a change in whites’ attitudes toward blacks. And it will prove that what he’s been saying all along is right: Race-based policies designed to redress inequality and past discrimination have outlived their usefulness.

A President Obama will not be a “black leader” speaking for the black population, he would be a leader that speaks for Americans.

Since a President Obama can only be elected with a majority of the “white and black” vote, Barack would owe his Presidency as much to whites as to blacks.

I don’t believe the current black leaders have given much thought as to what will happen to the black identity if Obama is elected. The definition of blackness will change, but it will be nothing like the civil rights mold of today.

Imagine, “blackness is not likely to remain within the civil rights mold“

Barack Obama can not be defined as a black leader.

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