Combs: Yes, I did. That was my first time voting. ??

CNN: And your vote counted, right? ??

Combs: And my vote definitely counted, and I learned from that. And I learned from that, and that helped me to want to get involved in a situation like this.

CNN: OK, just for the sake of our discussion. How were you disenfranchised in 2000? ??

Combs: You know, just the candidates not, you know, speaking to my needs, not coming in my community. I'm from Harlem, New York, from an inner-city community, and just going, seeing the school systems there not being taken care of, seeing the people having problems with health care, people having problems getting jobs. And you feel just like nobody cares about you. And your vote doesn't count. ?

Huh?

The so-called black leadership wants blacks to think of themselves as victicrats. Government failure to respond expeditiously to Katrina -- racism. Republican efforts to lower taxes -- racism. When asked why "Eight Mile" -- a black area outside Detroit -- suffers, while the neighboring and predominately Arab area prospers, black longtime Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich., responded, "Racism."

The so-called "black leadership" wants it both ways. They want to keep blacks monolithically voting for the Democratic Party by uniting them in anger and fury over often bogus charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement." On the other hand, they apparently want the very same blacks to ignore these charges, and go out and vote, because "every vote counts."

Pass the Advil.