InPDUM International Organizer Diop Olugbala challenged Obama asking, “In the face of the numerous attacks that are made against the African community or the black community by the same U.S. government that you aspire to lead — and we are talking about attacks like the subprime mortgage that you spoke of that wasn't just a general ambiguous kind of phenomena, but a phenomena that targeted the African community and Latino community; attacks like the killing of Sean Bell by the New York police department and Javon Dawson right here in St. Petersburg by the St. Petersburg police, and Jena 6 and Hurricane Katrina, and the list goes on. In the face of all these attacks that are clearly being made on the African community, why is it that you have not had the ability to not one time speak to the interests and even speak on the behalf of the oppressed and exploited African community or black community in this country?”
After stammering, Obama made the claim that he had addressed all of those issues with public statements, but that he just may not have spoken out in the way desired.
CNN as well as some of the other media could have actually provided information on the group. It's not as if it was difficult, they had a banner with their website address on it...If this mere blogger is intelligent enough to pause the video, note the name and google it, you'd think that CNN and some of those quick to judge could have done the same.
Are the groups points valid? Of course to them they are, anyone who believed that Obama was going to represent the majority of the African American community on some of these issues was mistaken. Obama is not "the black candidate" in the sense that he is going to save the black community, he is a "candidate who happens to be black" and there is a huge difference...
Realistically these hecklers help Obama since it demonstrates that the fear that some have that he will cater to the black community is not well founded.
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