Hillary is Angelou's 'Girlfriend' but Does Race Matter in the President Race?

Maya Angelou, a prominent member of the black community, has long been a part Hilary Clinton's campaign, giving her support to the New York senator and citing that Barrack Obama "lacks experience."

Angelou released a video that made its way onto YouTube for the Clinton campaign in which she reads the poem "Rising" that she wrote about Clinton. The video was first shown to almost 300 women of color back in the middle of June, according to Clinton's website.

Angelou's support was in response to the overwhelmingly positive response television personality Oprah Winfrey gives Obama. Controversy has arisen now that Angelou has offered her voice and kind words as the star of Clinton's latest radio spot. In the radio spot, Angelou's distinctive voice doles on about how great of a president Clinton would make, clearly opposing Obama.

"I know what kind of President Hillary Clinton will be," Angelou said, "because I know who she is."

Angelou's support was meant to garner support from black voters in South Carolina, speaking directly to black voters in parts of the ad. The results of the primaries, with Obama winning South Carolina, have shown that he still holds strong with black voters. With an inefluential black woman backing Clinton, offering support in the very home state the poet once lived in, Clinton still failed to win.

In the end many questions are left. Was Winfrey really that influential, is Angelou outdated, or are black people simply voting on race despite an influential member of their community telling them how they will best get support?