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[stevemcgarrett]

For all you fence-sitters and other independent-leaning voters on this forum, here' an arguably un-PC reason to vote for Senator Obama. It's something the liberal establishment, including the Clintons and Jacksons, would rather not talk about openly although it's an open secret. (A caveat: to be sure, the issue at hand does not divide by party line; but how to deal with it does--and that's what makes it un-PC in my view).

From the Kaiser Family Foundation, a community-based national medical organization, this sobering reality-check fact sheet:

http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/upload/7541.pdf

It's no secret to anyone who's spent time living and/or working in the Black American community that its family structure is in acute disarray. For every nuclear family that remains intact, there are four more which are dysfunctional. And while this problem is not endemic to this demographic group, it has reached crisis proportions in the past two decades. Lone voices from the wilderness, the Black conservative intellectuals, are now being joined with a chorus from Black celebrities. But still those who rally around the victimhood cult, which includes more liberal Whites than Blacks, would just rather not talk about it publicly for fear of being called out as a race-baitor or race-traitor as the case may be.

So along comes the first viable Black presidential candidate since Reconstruction and the talk is about the economy and pulling our troops from Iraq. Regardless of where one stands on those persistently prominent issues, the fact remains that Obama by his continuously respectable presence in the polls is going to bring attention to the positive side of the what the civil rights movement hoped to attain.

So read the fact sheet and then ask yourself: Do you think Obama, if elected President (or in gaining the Democratic Party nomination), can set the dialogue in the Black community in a positive direction by the sheer force of his personal example, as a bonafide family man who is well-educated, articulate, and reluctant to blame others for his shortcomings?

In other words, will the content of this man's character allow him to set the sort of example that will make many wayward Black men look in the mirror, think twice, and reclaim their rightful position in the Black family and community at large? Or is it unlikely and, if so, why?