Wow...

Wow...  It's impossible for a white male like me to accurately imagine what it's like to be a minority in a predominantly white country, but I've tried hard.  It's helped that over the years I've had good friends who are non-white, and who would talk with me openly.  Despite my best attempts to understand, one thing that has always puzzled me is why minorities overwhelmingly vote Democratic – the observable track record of the Democrats in America's large cities is abysmal, especially with respect to minorities.  Mind you, I'm not at all sure the Republicans would have done any better, but for decades now they've had almost no chance to even try administering our big cities.  While we've had the occasional Republican mayor (e.g., Rudy Giuliani in New York, Pete Wilson in San Diego), and the occasional Republican city council member, by and large America's largest cities have been controlled and run by Democrats.  The biggest reason for this is that minorities (especially blacks and Hispanics) vote for Democrats in percentages routinely exceeding 80%.  Why?

The speakers in the video at right are leaders in the black community, well-known and well-respected.  I speculate that the scales have (finally!) fallen from their eyes because of Obama's overt failure to deliver – despite his being black himself.  Whether I'm right about that is irrelevant, though.  I'm hoping that their disillusionment is the beginning of a trend – not to have minority voters vote Republican, but rather to have them think about who they're voting for, rather than voting reflexively for any one party...