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"I was in on the discussion of this on another thread a few days ago, and held the most cynical point of view of Watt's criticism of Reid, namely that it was nothing but window dressing meant to tell us conservatives to bugger off with our hypocrisy charges. I'm still not convinced to totally let that theory go, but it definitely looks like there is some real movement toward the mainstream (or at the very least, some real unease about their current course) within the liberal black establishment that I failed to take into account."

I'm pretty OK with a little skepticism, but I suspect that you'll come around further to what I was saying as time progresses. The treatment of Black Leaders by the Democratic Party establishment is simply too awful and too overt to go unnoticed for much longer...and the treatment of Black issues such as private school vouchers for inner city minority chidlren, which the Democratic Party leadership openly opposes, and then again on privatizing social security (the only way that Black men, who die on average by age 61 when SS payments don't begin until age 65 - will ever have a chance at passing some of their retirement benefits on to their heirs) where the Dems openly oppose the only plan around that benefits Blacks, adds up to some major disrespect...no, outright hostility toward Blacks by liberal White "leaders" in the Democratic Party.