Another case of politics as usual?
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, November 15, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Observers of African-American participation in politics are gushing over the long-term implications of the election of Barack Obama as president. ‘What we saw was really the emergence of the first multiracial, intergenerational, multiethnic political coalition of the 21st century,’ Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, told the Trotter Group of African-American newspaper columnists this week. ‘It reflects the diversity of the country today . . . the trend line suggests that the coalition that Barack Obama and his supporters helped forge is unique, different, and recreated the political landscape. That’s why this is a transcendent, watershed election.’….”…BS
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