If You're Black You Must Back Barack

The Washington Post just can't believe a black Democrat congressman would vote against Obamacare:

Rep. Artur Davis, long regarded as one of the most promising of a younger generation of black politicians that has emerged over the past decade, took a bold stance this week as he seeks to become the first African American governor of Alabama: distancing himself from the biggest legislative achievement of the first black president.

The four-term lawmaker joined 33 other Democrats, most of whom hail from the South, in opposing the health-care legislation that President Obama signed into law Tuesday. Davis originally voted against the House version of the legislation in November, and Democratic leaders did not spend much time trying to get him to change his vote, perhaps in a nod to the political dynamics of his state, where Obama won only 38 percent of the vote in 2008.

But in opposing the health-care bill, Davis, a longtime Obama ally who was one of the first lawmakers to back his White House run, split from the other 41 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. They not only all voted for the legislation, but cast it in historic terms as an extension of the policies of the civil rights era.

This is typical lefty think in which people are part of little sub-groups and all members of that group are required to think and act identically. Being black, therefore, required this congressman to support Obama's agenda because, after all, he's black too.

It's ignorant and racist.

I don't know if Davis voted against Obamacare because he genuinely didn't like the bill or because he was given a pass by Nancy Pelosi to try and save his seat, but whatever the reason, he should have the option to make his own decisions and not be bound by the politics of the group.