What Do We Want? Five Part Series Begins Monday, August 11th

I’ve heard a constant refrain lately – at work, on TV, on the internet – from some of my black brethren about Barack Obama:

He sacrifices black people to score points with whites and other non-blacks.

Since he doesn't have anything good to say about black people he shouldn't say anything at all.
I was offended by his criticism of black people.

What gives him the right to call anybody out about anything?

Since he doesn't have anything good to say about black people he shouldn't say anything at all.

He doesn’t need to “lecture black people” about personal responsibility.

He should be mindful of the tone he uses when he speaks to us.

He’s just saying what racist white people want to hear.

Next week, What Do We Want?, a five part series, will explore some of the issues that underlie this intraracial discord.

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Why do I think doing a five part series is important? Because there are an estimated EIGHT MILLION voting age African Americans who are not registered to vote.

EIGHT MILLION people who have varied reasons why they may not have registered in the past.

According to the Obama campaign, there are 56 million unregistered voters nationwide, 32 percent of the total eligible voter ranks. Of that number, eight million are black (which is also 32 percent of eligible African-American voters).