[lbo-talk] Spiegel interviews Sharpton

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Mar 22 07:31:19 PDT 2007


SHARPTON: He's certainly an impressive figure, but he cannot just get the support of all of the black community because he's black. We are no longer intoxicated by having the first black president. We had the first black secretary of state and the second black secretary of state and they brought us the most wicked war in our lifetime. So you have to be more than our color. You have to be our kind.

[WS:] This is precisely the reason I am inclined to vote for Obama. Had he been what Sharpton calls "our kind," what I presume means "Black populist," I would definitely NOT vote for him and I would be in a significant majority for a change.

Wojtek



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