They think Democrat Barack Obama is doing a good job balancing his role as a black candidate with the need to speak to all races.
The Illinois senator addresses the 99th meeting of the nation's largest civil rights organization as some blacks, mostly notably Jackson, have questioned whether the man who is in line to be the first black major-party presidential nominee is paying enough attention to the needs of blacks.
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, the city's first directly elected black mayor, disputed the view that Obama isn't speaking to black voters.
"I think he absolutely has,” the Cincinnati mayor said.
"He can't be totally focused on the black community,” Kelvin Shaw, of Shreveport, La., said Monday. "We need to be talking about not one race, but what affects all people.”
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