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Cinque Henderson is one black guy who isn't buying Obama's Shtick. But he is not a Republican. Hillary is his girl and he's got his reasons.

He is pretty good right out of the box.

From The New Republic

Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical import of the moment?

I can shed some insight on this demographic anomaly. In gatherings of black people, I'm invariably the only one for the Dragon Lady. I'll do my best to explain how those of us in the ever-shrinking minority of a minority came to our position.

But, before going any further, let me fully disclose my predispositions. I disliked Obama almost instantly. I never believed the central premises of his autobiography or his campaign. He is fueled by precisely the same brand of personal ambition as Bill Clinton. But, where Clinton is damned as "Slick Willie," Obama is hailed as a post-racial Messiah. Do I believe that Obama had this whole yes-we-can deal planned from age 16? No, I would respond. He began plotting it at age 22. This predisposition, of course, doesn't help me in making the case against Obama, especially not with black people. But, believe me, there's a strong case to be made that he isn't such a virtuous mediator of race. And it's this skepticism about Obama's racial posturing that has led us, the 10 percent, into dissent.

But here is the money quote. The dirty little secret about why white liberals really like Obama. Emphasis mine.

We have arrived at the crux of the matter. So much of the educated white people's love for Barack depends on educated white people's complete ignorance of and distance from the rest of us. Barack is the black person they want the rest of us to be--half-white and loving, or "racially transcendent," as the press loves to call him. And, since picking a candidate makes you allies with his other supporters, why would I want to be allies with educated whites whose glorification of Barack depends in large part on their implicit denigration of the rest of us?

And there it is. All of the liberal white guilt that has driven all of the liberal social policies for decades has this underlying premise: "We can help these dirty wretches out of their undignified social position with money and they will become perfect, clean, well spoken Americans like us."

Like Barack Obama.

Somebody ought to give Hillary this guy's phone number. Quickly.

H/T Rush

Bill Dupray at The Patriot Room