Yvonne R. Davis, The Daily Voice
- I cried the night Senator Barack Obama made history as the first African American nominee for President of the United States. On that historic evening, I received cell phone and land line calls, text messages, IMs, and emails – from black folks getting choked up about the moment they never thought they would see in their lifetimes. I was on the phone with a friend from Washington, DC who worked in the Bush 43 White House rejoicing in this moment when Senator Obama and his wife Michelle took to the stage in Minneapolis.
Since that memorable evening, my thoughts turned to the Blacks in leadership who were on the other side of history the night Obama became the presidential nominee. I wondered about people like billionaire Robert Johnson, who personally attacked Obama for “doing something in the neighborhood” that he would not say while Hillary and Bill Clinton were on the front lines for black people.
