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Originally Posted by JonK
I saw a young African American man wearing Obama's Time magazine Cover on his T-Shirt several month back with something like "I could be that too."
As an Obama's supporter and as Non African American my choice for a candidate has nothing to do with his race. I hope all of his supporters feels the same way.
It is very unfortunate that race of the candidate is even an issues, to any race I must say...
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I spend many days driving around downtown Atlanta and going into residents homes for my job. I can tell you from my personal experience, Obama is more of a celebtrity than a presidential candidate. On more that one occasion I have seen people selling Obama t-shirts, posters, etc. along the sides of the road. I went into a house today where the black homeowners had a t-shirt on a chair. It had Obama and MLK on the front, TOGETHER. I mean WTF? Something tells me that they are not that into Obama just for his politics.
It definately goes both ways, but it sure seems like there are a ton of people interested in Obama just because he could be the first black (half black) president and not because of what he stands for or what they think he can actually do for the country.