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I've read the Alice Walker endorsement of Barack Obama and I think it's potentially very important, because it is the Black feminist response to some well-known white feminists  like Erica Jong and et al, women who have e.g. deeply offended and alienated Black people and other Obama supporters by asserting that the only feminist thing to do is vote for Hillary, while voting for Obama would merely be "tokenism." Erica Jong said,

Obama is also a token -- of our incomplete progress toward an interracial society. I have nothing against him except his inexperience. Many black voters agree. They understand tokenism and condescension.  Washington Post [See fuller discussion of this article here.

This is but one example of how terribly wrong such Hillaryfeminists have been about the facts, much less in their opinions.  We now know that 90% of Blacks are supporting Obama, due in part to the massive offense Blacks have taken to the expression of views like this by Hillary supporters like Erica Jong and Geraldine Ferraro.  Entirely and utterly contrary to what Jong said in the Washington Post, Blacks don't agree that Obama is a mere "token" and neither do the majority white voters in Vermont, Wyoming, Minnesota, Idaho, Maine and Alaska. That's why 90% of Black votes are now going to Barack Obama: At the same time Obama was showing that he was an excellent candidate for the presidency and therefore deserved our votes, Hillary and her supporters were insulting us daily as if they WANTED us to vote for her opponent, regardless of whom he might be.

Where do Hillaryfeminists get this stuff?  Isn't what Erica Jong said frighteningly similar to what Geraldine Ferraro said?  It's almost as if they're all working from the same color-aroused script, so similar are the ideation and emotion that are present in their offensive expressive behavior!

Erica Jong said of Obama:

He was lucky enough not to be in the Senate when the Iraq war resolution was floated after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell lied about WMDs. Washington Post

This is a strange context in which to use the word "lucky." Actually, there wasn't much "luck" involved, since there was not a single Black person in the US Senate when the IWR was passed in 2002. When a group that constitutes 13% of the nation only has one member in a one hundred member Senate, it is perverse, disgusting, repulsive and deeply offensive to describe that as "lucky." 

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And what a beautiful and moving open letter it is.

My favorite quote from the letter is this.

"When I have supported white people, men and women, it was because I thought them the best possible people to do whatever the job required.  Nothing else would have occurred to me. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. We look at him, as we looked at them, and are glad to be of our species. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change America must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves."

It describes much more eloquently than I ever could, exactly the hope BHO represents to me.

But don't stop here. The rest of the letter is very much worth the time it takes to read it all.

http://www.theroot.com/id/45469/page/1

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Yes. It is another diary about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on plagiarism.

No. It's not simply a copycat or another cookie-cutter version of a Deval Patrick or John Edwards or Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton speech.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for"

Where, oh, where have we heard this before? (See the YouTube video here.)

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