@Foxfyre,
OH, I do hope that you are more realistic than that. It's obvious that you know very little about endemic racism. It is clear that you do not know the workings of the Illinois Legislature. Just recently,one of our South Side Legislators Reverend Meeks, a true man of the people, led a boycott of the Chicago Public Schools which are horribly underfunded. He took several busloads of children to enroll in the lily-white elitist suburb of Winnetka as a protest. He did this because the students in the Winnetka High Schools get SEVEN THOUSAND dollars more a year per student than Chicago High School students.
His plan was referred to committee and it will die there.
Only a President with a Democratic House and Senate will be able to take funds from the sinkholes of Iraq and Afghanistan which only go to ennrich the plutocrats in the final analysis and put those funds in the inner city schools in every major American city.
Black and Hispanic children cannot learn as well as they should until they are funded just as well as any District in the United States.
As far as Senator Obama's work as a community organizer goes, come to Chicago to ask the people. They will tell you he was invaluable!