Rep. John Lewis counts the cost of Obama endorsement

Read between the lines.

When Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, says it’s harder for him to switch his superdelegate support from Clinton to Obama than it was for him to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Dr. King in segregated Selma, Alabama over 40 years ago, what he’s really saying is:

Don’t get it twisted white America, the possibility that a black man could actually be nominated President of the Free World is harder for me to swallow than it is for you.

Lewis isn’t the only one among the graying generation of Civil Rights leaders who finds himself at a crossroads. For those who have spent a lifetime relying on alliances with the white liberal establishment to help promote civic change, a potential Obama victory represents a mind-boggling paradigm shift.

It’s probably a lot for a sharecropper’s son to grasp — especially one as politically indebted to the status quo, i.e. the Clintons, as Lewis.