[luvbach1]

...total lack of black leadership.

So true unless you call Jesse Hijackson, Al Shartongue, and Harry Belacommie leaders worthy of the name. Of course there are a significant number of black conservatives who could provide good leadership but who don't have the ear of the the average black person (largely thanks to the aforementioned) and who are thus never called upon.

[Katya]

my greatest issue with all of this, is the left's and media's notion that there needs to be "black" leadership, and annointed leaders. Are there Asian leaders in the US? Arab leaders, hispanic leaders? NO.
It is completely paternalistic to further this idea, and once obliterated we will see a rise of the individual.