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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Didn't take a psychic to see this coming.
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There's something more going on here. The Obama candidacy is shaping up to change the African American political landscape. In South Carolina (and other states) the Clinton's used the traditional strategy of machine politics, "buying" the endorsements of black ministers and using black surrogates like Bob Johnson, believing that African Americans would fall in lock step like a pack of lemmings. In contrast, the Obama campaign was truly an innovative grassroots operation, utilizing the existent political and social networks in the African American community--it was a real movement!This is what I heard from someone with deep roots in SC politics, right there in the Low Country, who was really impressed with the Obama campaign there.
As a commentator said on a Black public affairs radio show last night in NYC, this has the potential of dethroning the old guard civil rights "leaders" who operate under the patronage system to white politicians in the Democratic Party by circumventing any sway they may have as influential political arbiters. This portends the end of "plantation politics."
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