I agree with the race factor here. But it’s complex and there’s a lot of other factors here as well. To a lot of people, it’s not what the obvious truth is that matters, it’s what has been repeated over and over again that they perceive as the truth. That’s why the media played so powerfully into this election. From this point on, any feelings Chris Matthews has up his leg are only his past utterances returning to bite him in the arse! And he now knows it.
There is a huge portion of the black community who admittedly see Obama as the “great black hope” and they simply WILL NOT SEE HIM FAIL! But if they were to inspect him closely and without the profound emotion, they’d find that he shares very little in common with them and least of all their collective past. Many of my own ancestors were forced to walk the Trail of Tears, but I (like him) would require “schooling” to learn how to appear to have been “oppressed”. I would also have to had to hang out with questionable people to learn to have “problems” with the “white man” who is also at least half of MY makeup.
