BlogTalkRadio/Hankster: Dr. Omar Ali on Independent Black Politics and Barack Obama

Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination with support of independent voters in 33 states with open primaries. A black and independent alliance put him in the White House and changed American history. There is a new political category on the radar: the black independent -- 6% of Obama's vote, according to independent strategist Jacqueline Salit in her recent post-election analysis "How the Independent Movement Went Left By Going Right".

Omar Ali, a long-time independent political activist and a faculty member of the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, talks about his book In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States published by Ohio University Press.

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African American Independent political movements

Review of In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third Party Movements in the United States by Omar Ali on An Ordinary Person "I found myself constantly bowled over by one unexpected historical insight after another on the political activity of African Americans. More than just being passive, oppressed subjects as traditional historical accounts have tended to portray them, African-Americans have a rich history of organized, anti-Establishment political activity dating back to the days of slavery and through modern times......"