This is my favorite video of the campaign.
In it, an Obama cynic approaches a very young black Obama supporter in a rather bullying, hectoring way. Watch him get served in this remarkable video.
[update] DailyKos is so amazing. I already know the name of the remarkable young man interviewed in the video. His name is Derrick Ashong, and here are a few facts about him (via his agency! he's a musician, writer and actor):
Derrick Ashong has accomplished more in his young life than most people ever dream of.
As an actor, Ashong played a featured role in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Amistad. As an entrepreneur, he has begun and maintained a successful record label (ASAFO Productions). As a student, he was awarded the highest honor conferred upon an undergraduate at Harvard University. As a writer, he is well on his way to finishing his first major work of non-fiction. Why is he so successful? Perhaps it’s because he learned long ago that in order to achieve, one needs to apply his skills free from the limitations of artificial social construct. Put simply; he knows how to be himself.
Born in Ghana in 1975, Ashong attended school in the Middle-Eastern States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He has also lived in Brooklyn, New York, New Jersey, and has spent valuable time in the Caribbean. His unique upbringing has shown him the value of diversity, as well as the importance of self-awareness and self-reliance in a changing world. Blessed with the rare gift of oratory, Derrick Ashong can impart valuable lessons to crowds of any size, age, racial or social make-up. Blending humorous personal anecdotes and inspirational ideology, his lectures are guaranteed to evoke a powerful, positive response.
Also, the interviewer has apparently got some other candidate supporter videos up on YouTube. I'm off to look at those.
Thanks for rec everybody! I'm so happy that more people are seeing this video!
[update again]
There have been questions about whether or not the video was staged. I can't tell for sure yet, but the YouTube account in question was made one year ago, and has got only three videos up, all made the same day right in front of the Kodak Theatre before the debates I think, on Hollywood Boulevard (I live in LA, there's nothing "staged" about the fact that a zillion politically-motivated people were hanging out there on that day.) Mike, the interviewer is just as stroppy and confrontational in all three of them, I think. Not a patient man! But he sure got some compelling footage. There's one video for Obama, and two for Hillary ... the third one also has some local issues covered, like the phone tax initiative.