...Steele states? Please read this article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120579535818243439.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries)
by prominent black writer, Shelby Steele, who suggests that "it is undeniable that something extremely powerful in the body politic, a force quite apart from the man himself, has pulled Obama forward. This force is about race and nothing else."
Steele says the whole of Obama's candidacy is about race, and that as a public servant he amounts to very little: "By the evidence of his slight political record (130 "present" votes in the Illinois state legislature, little achievement in the U.S. Senate) Barack Obama stacks up as something of a mediocrity."
Do you agree that Obama's candidacy is, as Steele writes, "about race and nothing else?" After all, Obama may be talented, but so are millions of other people. He would be a mediocre, or below-average white candidate for the Presidency, and in fact, were he not black, he wouldn't ever have even dreamed of entering the RACE
by prominent black writer, Shelby Steele, who suggests that "it is undeniable that something extremely powerful in the body politic, a force quite apart from the man himself, has pulled Obama forward. This force is about race and nothing else."
Steele says the whole of Obama's candidacy is about race, and that as a public servant he amounts to very little: "By the evidence of his slight political record (130 "present" votes in the Illinois state legislature, little achievement in the U.S. Senate) Barack Obama stacks up as something of a mediocrity."
Do you agree that Obama's candidacy is, as Steele writes, "about race and nothing else?" After all, Obama may be talented, but so are millions of other people. He would be a mediocre, or below-average white candidate for the Presidency, and in fact, were he not black, he wouldn't ever have even dreamed of entering the RACE