Obama and the Three Reverends
Tags: Barack Obama, Race, voteIt’s no longer center stage for any black leader’s whose name isn’t Barack Obama – tell that to Reverends Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
And those leaders are frustrated by mainstream voters’ eager embrace of an African-American raised without a traditional African-American experience—who’s not, in other words, an "angry black man." And sources close to the three reverends say the men are hurt that Obama hasn’t sought their advice, even privately. Yet, they know he’d lose many white voters if he reached out to leaders known primarily for advocating black issues. Obama’s refrain is that there is just one America.
It may be what America wants to hear—but the three lions of the old school couldn’t disagree more.
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