by
Manning Marable, Cynthia McKinney, and Amy Goodman | 11.07.2008
It is a breakthrough, in terms of Obama being the first African American, the first person of color, being the nation's chief executive. But it still falls short of the kind of politics that Cynthia embodies, that I also share, that this is not—Obama's victory is a victory over racism, but it is not a victory of the left. And progressives will be—have to challenge the Obama administration on all of these issues.