By Lucius Gantt | Guest Columnist

I intend to vote for Barack Obama, but I’m still going to tell the truth!

What a friend we have in Democrats. All of our political sins and griefs they bear. With the political “friends” that African American voters have, who needs enemies?

No, don’t run away from the Democratic political plantation to another political party. No major political party respectfully courts, supports, recognizes, acknowledges, hires, contracts or patronizes anybody non-White in a meaningful and significant political manner.

‘Blind’ support
The Democratic Party is poised for a remarkable leadership comeback in 2008. If Democrats fail to take back the White House, expand their numbers in Congress and take back numerous state legislatures and local councils and commissions, the failure will be because of their misuse, abuse, neglect and taking for granted of the overwhelming, but sometimes blind, support of African American voters.

I say “blind” because more often than not Blacks are encouraged to, and many times do, just vote Democratic. Any Democratic State Attorney, for instance, that would arbitrarily pick and choose which citizens to prosecute, to overcharge, to give extended probation periods to, to jail youth on false violations and to maliciously prosecute based on racial motivations, is not a good choice for Black voters to support.

The Democratic National Committee and more than a few state Democratic parties have decided that all money, funds contributed by Blacks, Hispanics, Whites and others, would mostly go to White television station owners. Yes, there are Blacks that own broadcast facilities but they are not getting political ad placements.

What change?
So Stevie Wonder could see that campaign expenditures are not based on media type. The “Change We Can Believe In” doesn’t have a damn thing to do with campaigning. There has been no change whatsoever in the way that Black voters are treated that seek diversity in campaign spending transactions.

Truth is, no Democrat anywhere can get consistently elected without Black voter support. The Democratic candidate for President can spend his total campaign budget trying to influence “working class” (White) voters and still get ‘landslid’ if Black voters don’t turn out in huge numbers Can I prove it? Yes!

If Barack Obama and John McCain are currently running neck-and-neck in the presidential campaign polls, McCain has at least 60% of the White voters polled. All of the Democratic money spent has done very little to ensure that conservative Democrats vote for their nominee instead of voting for the Republican candidate.

Decisive voters
Don’t forget there are more registered Democrats in America than there are registered Republicans. When White voters are divided, African-American bloc voters decide elections.

Yes, what a friend we have. We give them everything we have politically, but they only give us hopes, dreams and when we die, political pie in the sky.

Contact Lucius at www.allworldconsultants.net.