“The Asians and Latinos don’t fall in love with an Empty Suit with naive rhetoric.”
I don’t think this is the reason why Obama is not popular with Latinos and Asians. Minorities, oppressed or otherwise, usually posit themselves against the mainstream majority and seek to establish an understanding and mutuality with it. Latinos, Asians, Afrian-Americans, are all competing against each other for attention, recognition, acceptance, and prominence. They are not likely to be too eager or motivated to boost one minority leader. They are not likely to give the “other” minority the gift of prominence. They are very conservative in the way they exercise their relative power vis-a-vis the majority, and calculate how best their interests can be augmented.
Most people usually end up doing and choosing what is in their best interests, not what is fashionable or glittering.
