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Black Leaders Wary of Obama
Powerful black activists in the U.S. remain surprisingly cool to a White House run by African-American Senator Barack Obama.
At a recent meeting of activists in New York, Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose effort at running for president was arguably the first major effort for a black candidate, declined to endorse Obama, saying "our focus now is not on who’s running, because there are a number of allies running.”
Rev. Al Sharpton, who ran in the 2004 Democratic primaries, said he was considering another presidential run in 2008 and observed about Obama: "Right now we’re hearing a lot of media razzle-dazzle. I’m not hearing a lot of meat, or a lot of content. I think when the meat hits the fire, we’ll find out if it’s just fat, or if there’s some real meat there.”
And singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte said America needed to be "careful” about Obama, the Sunday Times in London reported.
"We don’t know what he’s truly about,” Belafonte said. "He’s a young man in many ways to be admired. Obviously very bright, speaks very well, cuts a handsome figure. But all of that is just the king’s clothes. Who’s the king?”
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One Democratic strategist told the Times that veteran civil rights leaders "are basically jealous. They’ve been toiling in the trenches for decades, and along comes this son of a Kenyan farmer and suddenly he’s measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.”
The Times noted: "The unexpected coolness between the old civil rights guard and the new Democratic hopeful has added an intriguing twist to the budding rivalry between Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton, who hopes to emulate her husband . . . in attracting support from black voters.”
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