The racial tension between the Obama campaign and the Hillary campaign is a two-edged sword that cut both ways. Obama needs White votes to win the Democratic nomination much less to win the General Election. In turn, Hillary needs Black votes to win the General Election. Can the United States afford another Republican in the White House? C'mon, do we see a Teddy Roosevelt in this pack of GOP Presidential Candidates - the last GOP reformer and agent of change? OK, he was a war hawk; there goes the last hope for the GOP!

Let's not forget what happen to Mark Green vs. Fernando Ferrer. Mark Green won the battle - the Democratic nomination but lost the war - the 2001 NYC Mayoral Election to an upstart Republican Michael Bloomberg (a flaming liberal in icy conservative clothing). The racial overtone of the Democratic primary rubbed Blacks and Latinos the wrong way. In retaliation, they voted for Bloomberg or stayed home. One year later, Andrew Cuomo wisely withdrew from the NY Gubernatorial Race in favor of H. Carl McCall so as not to repeat the fiasco of Mark Green. Mind you, Mark Green is a great guy and he's not a racist. I have the pleasure of meeting him at a 1995 dinner thrown by Wilhelmina Modeling Agency Owner Dieter Aesch. Howbeit, we are all humans and in the heat of competition - winning is everything where racial overtones are 'collateral damages' - not intended.

Let's end with a famous quote from King - no...not Dr. Martin Luther King but the other King - the one and only Rodney King: "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?"