This presidential election is the most exciting election that I have ever witnessed in America. This is the first time that I have seen so much enthusiasm among the African-American community everywhere in the country. Yes, a man of color is running for the highest job ever. That explains such excitement. For the older generation of African-Americans who fought for civil rights, this is something totally unexpected in their lifetime. The increased African-American turnout in the Democratic primaries was mostly in support of Barack Obama.

Being Black and Republican is seen by Black people as being a “traitor” or a “sell out” because Blacks vote “traditionally” Democrat. I was astonished by the reaction of the Black media about James T. Harris, a Black man begging John McCain to take off his gloves and be more aggressive against Barack Obama.

I found that there are two classes of Black people: the “rich” Black Republicans, the minority within the minority, and the middle class or poor Black Democratic majority.

It is not rare to see a “old poor Black” who gets rich become a Republican later in his life. As the Creole of Cape Verde say, “When a mulatto is poor, he’s Black; when a Black is rich, he’s mulatto.”