No, you just prefer his rationalizing. He don't know jack about African American culture.

Here is a post from the Green Commons website (yes, THAT dirty, filthy Green Party that everyone here loves to hate), from African American Green Party blogger, Alex Walker. I saved it from last fall, because it rang so true to me, and it was posted just prior to my family being flooded out of our home--which just makes it personally memorable to me, of course.

Obama and Oprah -- As Far As You Can Get From South Central Los Angeles.

Submitted by AlexWalker on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 4:53pm.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama raised an estimated $3 million at a fund-raiser hosted by TV mogul, Oprah Winfrey last week. See below a description by Varsha Rao posted over the weekend on The Huffington Post. It is such a disgusting, nauseating celebration of capitalist wealth and celebrity it's enough to take your breath away. By the way, it is a measure of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of my fellow African-Americans that I have not found a single criticism of this decadent display on the usual Black-oriented web sites or blogs. Break out your handkerchiefs when you read the part where Oprah "with emotion" told the glitterati she feels "blessed to be living the dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. made possible."

Dear Friends: This is about as far as you can get from South Central Los Angeles or Brooklyn or Southside Chicago.