Kerry's Speech Tonight: Anyone else notice - no people of color on stage?

[stopbush]

I was struck by the wide shot MSRNC showed of Kerry in Washington state making his speech. A good mix of men and women on stage, but I didn't notice a single non-white face in the crowd behind him.

Sort of strange.

[David Dunham]

1. Gov Locke was there and he's Asian American

[stopbush]

2. Yeah, I know. He introduced Kerry.

I'm just saying that in the wide shot it looked awfully white bread up there. I would have thought that Kerry's image police would have had a little foresight.

[tritsofme]

3. He was in Wash State right?

I don't know the demographics there, but I assume its a heavily white state.

[jburton]

4. If it were Dean...

...the pic would be plastered all over the place.

[bigtree]

5. 100, 000 Alaskan Natives live there

200,000 African Americans out of about 6 million total

I certain they were well represented there.