Obama, Clinton and Jena 6

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297409,00.html-two seperate stories
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297764,00.html

This is really interesting. And confusing. 6 Black Americans face trumped up charges. Americans all over cry outrage and injustice. Thousands rally to protest and amidst all this, there is irony. Obama is Black, Hilary is White. However, Clinton moves quickly to speak out against this injustice and has no proble, if she didn't, what would have probably happened is that she would have lost some of the black vote. HOwever, when Obama doesn't say anything, he is alienating his people, and I am sure if he went down there and represented the black agenda, he would alienate everyone else. Interesting that Obama is trapped by people who, despite everything Jackson says about acting white or whatever, would have sat in the same section as he did in a bus, or restaurant in the 60s in the south. I think obama has a point that it isn't an injustice that should only anger the south or blacks, it really should anger everyone, but it says so much when it is only obama's statements that matter. Interestingly enough, polls show(according to the article by fox news) that CLinton has a lot of the black vote. Why? It has to be that voters are picking candidates over more than skin color. Or is it that in this current state of affairs, being a black man is not as acceptable as being a white woman? Maybe the Black community has no faith in their own skin color, or they know better? Or maybe it doesn't matter. I think this is insane. I was discussing the matter of skin color and oppression and desppite obama's best efforts to avoid the race question, it seems like he cannot escape being the black candidate. Clinton doesn't receieve nearly as much heat for not speaking out about women's rights and things pertaining to that such as abortion or domestic violence. Makes sense though, gender and race are not in the same stratosphere and are not the same debate. There are more women than there are blacks, so it just seems to coincide with more people are able to deal with. I feel bad for obama because as I far I know,he seems like a really intelligent and benevolent man who loves his country and really wants to reconcile things. He is too political and long winded though. he needs to say something straigh forward, like I am Black, if I were one of those boys, I would be in the same boat, but if I were white, it wouldn't stop me from being angry about it.