re: Why are blacks vilified for not toeing the Obama line?

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I'm not going to do that because y'all get into namecalling pretty quickly. You are coming dangerously close to doing it with me. I know we've moved beyond that, but I guess I would have been called a n-word "lover" back in the day - in fact I was. I had black friends (*GASP*) and even a black roommate. In fact, there was about a year or so, when I was pretty much the only white guy running in our circle.

Having said that - you're falling into the classic trap - herding "blacks" like they're this monolithic entity. Tbird and ommg are not who you think they are, nor do black folks unanimously consider Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or even BHO their spokesperson or the "Emperor of Black People". In fact, if you took the time, you would probably find you have more in common with Tbird and BHP (heck, maybe even OMMG) - than you do with Boston and Los Angeles, educated white liberal elite idiots - a LOT more in common.

However, it is in the interests of the powers-that-be to keep us all in nice, convenient little boxes until election day, so they can herd us into the voting booth on their whim - not ours. Occasionally an election goes against form (1994), and this one may as well, but I just find it an oversimplification to consider black people as this homogenous mass of sagging, dope smoking, drug dealing, gun-toting, murdering, rapping Lil Boosies.

Why? Because I know better.

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I'm completely turning off the FT troll machine to say that this is one of best posts I've ever read on this board.