John Kerry did the same thing before the protests - he spoke at a LA High School about immigration about 1/2 hour before they were supposed to protest. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are exploiting this and are going to lose the black votes for the Dems! I say let them!
I hate to say this, but history is a b**ch sometimes...the "black vote", en masse, will go to whoever offers the most return for the least effort...Republican party, Democrat party, Tea party. It doesn't matter.
Wasn't it Lyndon Johnson (or some other prominent Democrat) who said in the 60s, "If we sign this bill (Civil Rights or something), the Negroes will vote for us for the next 100 years?"
I found the following case study on the Net, trying to find the above quote...
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC7d_CivilRightsBill.htm
And I am a black conservative saying it. Of course, I'm not part of the "en masse". I hate to sound so jaded, but Booker T. Washington was right...there was in his time, and will always be, apparently, those who want to remain victims, with a perpetual gimme hand extended...and there will be politicians who will want to offer the carrot on a string.