Obama and the White Vote

Cross-posted from Double Consciousness.

I’m obviously not an Obama fan, I’m a Cynthia McKinney fan. To me, the only change Obama represents is a change in policy of the bourgois; no more no less. Bourgois change is not real change. But, Tim Wise has a great article on Obama’s candicy in where he says:

If, in order to be elected, a man of color has to pander to white folks, in ways that no white politician would ever have to do to people who were black or brown, then white privilege and white power remain operative realities.

[Hat Tip: Racialicious via Barry]