Black scholar says Obama is the right choice

Theodore Cross, editor of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, published a detailed comparison of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on issues of specific importance to African Americans.

Cross concluded that Obama's program was much better for African Americans. He also felt that many black voters are not giving Barack sufficient consideration primarily because they do not think he has a chance of winning.

For the first time in the history of our country, a black man has a credible chance of becoming president of the United States. After the long nightmare years of slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and enduring race discrimination, one would expect that, in the upcoming presidential primary contest, Illinois Senator Barack Obama would be the overwhelming choice of black American voters.

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