WHY BLACK BRITAIN NEEDS AN OBAMA

So I'm sitting up waiting for the results of Super Tuesday, waiting for something to happen. Maybe I'm waiting for that change that Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been harping on about.
There's not the faintest possibility that white America in 2008 would elect a Black man as President, but the hope that Obama's campaign has inspired could signal a positive change in America's attitude to race and who knows what else.
It's kind of weird that I didn't stay up for last weekend's Superbowl -- the biggest sporting event in the US -- or last year's Floyd Mayweather spanking of Ricky Hatton. The truth is, you know what the result is going be.
The whole Hillary Clinton versus Obama is like, for those who can remember, Mike Tyson versus Frank Bruno way back when. Everyone, including Bruno, knew the heavyweight was on a hiding to nothing. Angry Tyson, was looking to tear someone a new bottom and it was going to be Britain's favourite Black man after uncle Trevor McDonald who was going to get that overdue tonking.
Although people secretly hoped that the happy-go-lucky and part-time buffoon that was Frank Bruno would spank the arrogant yank, no one expected it. It wasn't until the fifth round that Bruno and every other hopeful saw the glimmer of hope, a brief moment where the impossible seemed like it was going to happen.
Bruno rocked Tyson but the British heavyweight was so shocked by the moment that he stopped in disbelief and the moment was lost. Had he continued would've been made on that crazy night in February. Tyson might not have gone totally off the rails and neither perhaps would Bruno.
Obama has had a few moments, but all the goodwill in the world won't give him enough round fives like Bruno's. The Clinton ticket is a Tyson-like beast that won't be stopped, especially since ex-President Bill is still owed enough favours to almost guarantee his missus a run on White House. Couple that with America's race-hate past and present and you'll be grateful Obama hasn't been smeared in press, discredited or lynched, as is the American way.
Black British political hopefuls can learn from the Obama model, he only seemed to garner African-American support in the final furlong of his campaign. Many of them play the race card first and then forget, but it seems like he's forgotten altogether, which in a mixed up kind of way makes him look so credible you kind of wish race wasn't an issue -- unfortunately it is, and because it is the needs of the many will go unmet because of the bigotry of the few (if of course you count millions of Americans a few).
But hey, at least we're not alone in hoping.