As Jesses Jackson had just recently done, black detractors of Senator Barack Obama, like the recent hecklers with their “what about the Black Community” banner, continue to play their role in helping the senator with that white voter who is hesitant to actually pull lever for a nonwhite person.

Those white voters can take heart that Obama is not going to “give those crazies among them everything,” and told them so and was cheered for it.

We would hope that these young men, either trying to prove how cynically black they are or perhaps doing their master’s budding, have first done a few things for the community themselves. Are they faithful heads of a nuclear family with father, mother and child or children? Do they have family meetings to discuss issues; do they go to the PTA? Do they help with homework? Are they members of the block association? Do they attend community board meetings? If they feel passionately about something, are they a member of the committee or subcommittee of any of the groups all around them doing something.

Do they speak to the young men on the street with their pants below their behinds? (I asked one young man why he wore his pants like that and he agreed that the look came from prison, but that he wore them that way “because they help me breathe.”)