There are two ways to look at an Obama presidency. First, his nomination and election would surely mean that a majority of white voters had voted for him, giving the lie to claim that there still exists rampant racism in America. Perhaps Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be out of the race pimp business.
But on the other hand:
If Obama is nominated and wins, it could be an initial source of pride to black Americans but might soon turn into a disaster. His policies are basically the Marxist redistributionist policies of third-world dictators, all of whom have empirically impoverished their countries and created increased violence. There's no reason to think Obama's policies would not cause economic decline and more poverty in America too. He plans to tax the companies and entrepreneurs that create the jobs that average workers need if they ae to prosper. He wants to take money from people and corporations who have proved their efficiency by earning money and hand it over to bureaucrats who have not demonstrated any business acumen. Those bureaucrats, after wasting some of it, will turn it over to people and companies who have proved that they don't really know how to earn money or what to do with money. This is, on its face, a recipe for economic disaster. We already face a situation where fewer working people are supporting more retirees and more children not yet into working age. Obama's policies will worsen this exponentially. Though he's clearly much less violent, his basic mindset, that of taking from the wealthy and giving to the poor, is the Robert Mugabe method in Zimbabwe, the Fidel Castro method in Cuba, and the Hugo Chavez method in Venezuela.
While claiming to be helping the working class (as if the wealthy don't work!--most of them work harder and longer hours than the "workers"), third world communist dictators have impoverished their people. Obama's policies, identical to those of Mugabe but without the violence, would do the same here.
People might then conclude that a black man doesn't have the brains to lead a country. That would be wrong. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. He has considerable intelligence, but he believes economic falsehoods. An electorate so poorly educated and so divorced from rationality as to elect Obama might not have the intelligence to conclude that they have simply elected the wrong black man. They might conclude they should never elect any black man or woman. That would be a pity, after all these years of combating racism.
