"A lot of black people aren't ready to get beyond race, because race puts them in the situation they're in. But many whites want to get beyond the past, they want to support a black person who doesn't raise the past and in fact gives them absolution from the past." -- Ron Walters, a professor at the University of Maryland who worked on Jesse Jackson's presidential runs, to Time, in article titled, "Can Obama Count on the Black Vote?" Early polls show Hillary Clinton far ahead of Obama among black voters.
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