Keya Neal, owner of It’s All In The Cut hair salon on Dorchester Road talks politics with customers while styling Shakella Haynes’s hair. Neal, who did not always follow politics has been following this primary season closely.
For many black women, deciding who they’ll vote for in Saturday’s Democratic primary is a good kind of angst.
Do they vote for who could be the first female president or the first black president? It’s the first time they’ve had to choose between the two.
Yvette Jackson of Goose Creek said the choice isn’t at all bad, though she’s torn on what to do. She settled on Illinois Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York after considering the two front-runners’ stances on key issues.
“Obama has the credentials, and I think he needs our support,” she said. “This may be what he needs in South Carolina to get him that vote to win the nomination. … If he couldn’t, then certainly, I’d be just as happy with Hillary.”
This being a hair salon, one would think they would support John Edwards.