"the black vote"

I personally believe the author of this article only commented on Blacks, women, and young people rather than other races is because he is black. Everyday he is black every day he is black so of course he will speak on what he believes. Orlando Patterson has written other articles about blacks in america and reading the other articles you can get an idea of who he is. Also only speaking of women and young people because Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin really got women involved and women have struggled in America so if Hilary would have won she would have made history for the women who fought for her to run just as well as obama had black people die for his right too. And Young people because Obama is rather young and his ethnicity draws the young people and the hip hop leaders to get involved in the election. So these were the focus of the campaigns so apparently this is the ending focus of the article.

Blacks in America had technically had the rights to vote but they were very much suppressed and given unrealistic challenges in order to vote. However when the civil rights movement happened people had had enough. The voting rights act was passed. This was to prevent suppression from happening, for many years people died in order for blacks to have the right to vote.

Up until now a lot of black people didnt use their rights to vote and from personal accounts it mostly has been because the lack of faith in the candidates. Not all of the black people voted for OBAMA there were many non-obama believers. But With every election there isnt an obvious guy to win it was always choosing better of two evils. Even though not everybody was for obama he wasnt perfect but he was something new to america as a leader. The black community had a POSTIVE black person to look up to. So it is a really good feeling knowing your vote is going towards somebody that gives you hope to make a positive change. it even was taken so far to have BET (black entertainment) network promote "OBAMA AND THE BLACK VOTE"