Barack Obama stated that his campaign for the presidency “will send a wonderful message to young people of color and to immigrants around the country” if he is triumphant.
“If I’m talking about the issues that matter to people, if we do a good job in letting people know who I am and what I stand for…they’ll make their judgment not based on my race but based on how well they think I can lead this country,” Obama explained to USA TODAY.
As he starts campaigning intensely for the 2008 Democtratic presidential nomination, Obama can’t be sure that he will be the preferred of the black voters, who are extrememly key to the result of Democratic candidates in states such as South Carolina, which has one of the earliest primaries. African-American were about half of the state’s Democratic primary voters in 2004.
Obama’s upbringing does not compare to previous black presidential candidates or any previous civil rights leaders. He is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He was raised in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for a part of his childhood. He was the first black president of the distinguished Harvard Law Review and took some time as a community organizer on Chicago’s South Side.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-02-09-obama-focus_x.htm
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