I challenge our leaders of color to stand up to John McCain's history of disturbing racial politics.

  This is my first diary, so please be forgiving of any errors I may make. (I am highly impressed by the quality of the writing on this site in general, so I feel I bit intimidated to post anything).
This morning, I was watching the new McCain ad on CNN, you know, the one where he says he going to create jobs, make more and cheaper energy sources, fix health care, hold corporate CEO's accountable, fix the mortgage crisis and create millions of new jobs (mind you, this is a thirty-second spot---straight talk?!).
    Well, the thing that has been catching my eye in the ad was at the end where he is in a factory and he is shaking the hand of a black woman.  As a woman of color, I expressed how implausible it is that she is actually a McCain supporter.  I thought to myself, "I bet she's totally for Obama".  I felt I could tell by her expression (as you can see, I tend to practice amateur psychology on everyone I see in these ads, especially political ads).  
    Then today, it jumped out at me, the prominent visible Obama logo on the woman's clothing---She is wearing at Obama t-shirt!

Here is the ad.

The logo is most visible at 0:26.

Will black, red, & brown  folks just get so disgusted that they will say the hell with this country – and just stay home?  

This question was raised a few days ago in FishOutofWater’s diary   Furious Black Voters Won't Vote for Hillary in November

I read the 1161 comments carefully, a majority from white Kossacks, but quite a few strong replies from black and latino ones as well.  

I realized that any response I made would be a diary in itself and so I’m writing one here.  

Wanted to share this provocative post from the Movement Vision Lab blog by Dan Horowitz Garcia entitled, "Get Whitey!  A 21st Century Racial Justice Agenda".

I love my Treo.  And even though I know I only want it because it's cool, I'm dying for an iPhone.  But in this great article on the Movement Vision Lab blog, two grassroots activists push us to examine the social, economic and political context behind cell phones...

Remember how when Katrina hit, the government and media cared more about wealthy white folks than low-income people of color?  Suprise, suprise it happened again.  

First they said that there were widespread rapes of women, girls and even babies, as well as looting, murder and mayhem in the SuperDome, the Convention Center, and elsewhere in New Orleans.

Then they said that nothing of the kind happened, that there were only a few or no rapes.

The truth has been a long time in coming.  But rapes did occur in New Orleans during the civil breakdown after the levee flooding of the city.

National Public Radio had the story during its Morning Edition.  And it wasn't just Charmaine Neville.