Will black voters stay home if Obama loses nomination?

Obama is the Great Unifier. His campaign transcends race, because he's going to bring us all together. He brings us hope. And change.

So how do we explain this:

Many black voters are making it very clear: They're concerned that Barack Obama is going to be denied the Democratic presidential nomination that they see as rightfully his, and if that happens, a lot of them may stay home in November.

I thought people didn't pay any attention to race in the Age of Obama.

Maybe it's ok for African-Americans since they've given so much to the Democrats and have asked for so little -- at least, that's the impression you get from the explanation that follows in the same article:

African-Americans have been the Democratic Party's most reliable bloc, giving about 90 percent of their votes to former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in the last two presidential elections.

But then Southerners have been the Republican's most reliable bloc since the days of Nixon, and look how all the Republican candidates except Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee trashed Southern heritage and Southern values. Looks like a raw deal to me.

Isn't there any prominent figure who'll chastise black voters for their obvious racial favoritism? Maybe this courageous attorney will do the job -- he obviously understands what's at stake:

Americans will have to overcome their systemic biases against gender and race if they are to take advantage of the historic possibilities in this year’s presidential election, a prominent civil rights lawyer said Tuesday at Sonoma State University.

“If we’re going to build the bridges that separate the divide in this country, whether they be about race, gender or sexual orientation . . . it’s going to be because we reached across those divides and learned to care about and love people who are different than we are,” Morris Dees said. ...

The blacks quoted in the above article certainly aren't caring about and loving people different from them -- and as Dees informs us, nothing proves how you've overcome your systemic biases like voting for people who're different from you.

Clearly, Dees will condemn the angry black voters quoted above. The SPLC press release should come out any minute now ... wait for it ...