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“Melissa Harris-Perry by Maria Lloyd In a posting on TheNation.com, Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to motivate President Obama’s reluctant African American supporters by telling them an Obama re-election is beyond what policies he does or does not …”

Watkins writes, and I am unsure of my agreement, ” What Harris-Perry fails to illustrate is that a zero percent interest in Mitt Romney in the black community does not equate to a 100% support of President Obama. A number of African American voters have decided not vote or to vote for a third party candidate. She went on to explain what an Obama re-election would mean to the black community and how the Democratic party has supported the black community since the 1960′s. ” It very well may be there it is not a point of agreement or disagreement that is important.  BJPG

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