Hey, maybe Obama really is the post-racial candidate:

The Black press is just as enthusiastic as African Americans in general at the prospect of a Black man becoming the next occupant of the White House. But Black newspaper owners also expected that they would be beneficiaries of what is already the most lavish campaign advertising budget in history: Barack Obama's bulging war chest. Instead, Black publishers say they have been locked out of Obama's advertising game plan - and even shunned in their attempts to cover the Obama operation. The Illinois Senator's handlers - and maybe the man himself - "think that we as black people are so anxious to get a black president that we'll support him no matter what," said one editor. "So why waste money on us?"... Publishers and editors of African-American newspapers - the beacons who live and breathe the blackness of their communities and who regulate the pulse of black America - are fighting mad at what has now become blatantly clear to them: The Democratic Party doesn't give a damn about them. The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign doesn't give a damn about them and, alack and alas, neither does the Barack Obama campaign.

If we were inclined toward generosity we'd suggest that this is another campaign tactic meant to insulate Obama against unfair attempts at ghettoization. But since we're not, we feel comfortable suggesting that Obama - for all that he's a relative political novice - has apparently been around long enough to pick up the Democratic Party's habit of taking black support for granted.

References:
* Does the Democratic party take blacks for granted? [Black Agenda Report]
* Key anti-identity-politics, anti-ghettoization passage in Obama's victory speech [Kausfiles]
* Does the Democratic party take blacks for granted? [Larry Elder]

Previously:
* Obama's Sophistication Is Actually Kind Of Unsophisticated, Incoherent
* CNN: Obama, Clinton "Clearly Uncomfortable" Criticizing Carter's Hamas Visit
* Obama Draws Line In The Sand: Invading Israel OK But Calling Hillary A Mean Name Is A Firing Offense