Friday, August 8, 2008

Yeah Obama, What About the Black Community?


from NewsOne.com

Hecklers at Obama Rally Expose Fault Lines in the Black Community
by Mark Anthony Neal

At a recent rally in Florida, Barack Obama's speech was interrupted by a group of young black male hecklers, members of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, who held a banner asking, "What About the Black Community, Obama?" However inappropriate the interruption, the banner raises crucial questions about the very concept of "black community" in the early 21st century-as well as the many divisions an Obama candidacy poses for it.

A simple rejoinder to the young men who heckled Obama might be, "whose black community are you referring to?"

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