By Frances Rice

Again, Sen. Barack Obama displayed his disdain for black Americans by choosing Sen. Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate.  While running for president himself, Biden boasted proudly on FOX News that his qualification to be president was enhanced because his home state of Delaware held blacks in human bondage. "You don't know my state," Biden crowed. "My state was a slave state".  Imagine the media firestorm that would have ensued if a Republican candidate had uttered such an outrageously racist comment.

Imagine the media feeding frenzy that would have been created if a Republican and uttered the racially-charged remarks made by Biden about Obama on the day he formally announced his candidacy.  A story in the New York Observer quoted Biden as calling Obama "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Biden was given a pass also when he set off a controversy in 2006 after making racially-tinged comments Indian Americans.  ”I've had a great relationship [with Indian Americans]," Biden said. "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

Obama himself--the son of a white woman whose ancestors owned slaves—also showed his lack of sensitivity to black civil rights history when he wrote a letter supporting the re-election of Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.  History shows that the relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats during the 1960's led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death.  In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Sen. Byrd called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Obama claims to care about poor blacks, but he has a dismal record. Obama opposes school choice scholarships, putting the special interest of the teachers' unions above the interest of poor black children trapped in failing schools.  Obama voted against the minimum wage bill that was finally passed in Congress.  Obama obtained funding for slum lord projects in Chicago and was condemned by the poor black people living in the rat and roach infested public housing.

Further showing his lack of concern about the well-being of the least among us, Obama is the most radical, pro-abortion candidate in our nation's history.  Obama is so pro-abortion that, as an Illinois state senator, he refused to support legislation to provide health care to babies who survived late-term abortions.  In a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor, Obama said that he did not want to recognize as "persons" babies born fully outside their mothers' wombs, even with their hearts beating and lungs heaving.  This is chilling.

Frances Rice is Chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at:  www.NBRA.info