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Originally Posted by eyenomifate
No part whatsoever. You should vote for who YOU feel is the best candidate and not (as I assume) vote on race. This seems to be a terrible problem with African Americans today. The Democratic party merely pacifies poor people with social programs that have no chance of working, and the Republicans only care about big business. While it would be nice if Senator Obama would enter the race for President, two books do not make a man known.
Oh BTW.......Oprah for President? Stop it.
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I agree, although I completely understand why having a minority President (whether based on race or gender) is an important social change. It would be a milestone and be indicative of a tipping of the balance of power in this society.
The question then becomes, as Black people what is important to us when voting? William Julius Wilson wrote the Declining Significance of Race in which he argued that class was increasing in significance and race, although still of significance, was declining in its social relevance for us. So should a people with disproportionate poverty, disproportionate criminality, and over 60% single motherhood vote based on class or do many Blacks still feel like race is what impacts our life chances? Poor blacks will undoubtedly vote Democrat, whether that's based on their race or class. Many middle to upperclass blacks will vote based on class and therefore vote Republican. Unless they are thinking of the bigger, more racially utilitarian, picture.