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In Obama's own words yesterday he said he is not sure if the people who support him now would support Hillary if he (Obama) is not the Democratic Party candidate in November. Obviously he will not. He also said three days ago he would have to check and see how well Bill Clinton could "dance" before he would consider him to be a "brother". Some of my very best lifelong friends are Black, Hispanic, and Muslim. I am very, very concerned that Barrack Obama is a closet racist that will destroy the race relations in this country.
So I humbly ask that you and all those you know to do your own investigation and report this if true and put an end to this divisive primary campaign before too much damage is done.
God Bless You.
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"We were always playing on the white man's court -- by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't. The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage."
Obama once described the white race as ???that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.???
???That hate hadn't gone away,??? he wrote, blaming ???white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.???
During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.
Obama???s book is primarily about his rejection of his supportive white maternal extended family in favor of his unknown black paternal extended family.
At age 33, he wrote in "Dreams from My Father, that " he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother???s race.
Obama vowed that he would "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father???s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I???d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
In his memoir, "Dreams of My Father," Obama writes of a story in Life magazine that influenced him -- about a black man trying to bleach his skin white. No such article could be found in Life or Ebony.
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Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson has been campaigning with Clinton, and he seemed to stir some controversy when he said, "Obama was doing something in the neighborhood" years ago when the Clintons were deeply involved in civil rights issues—an apparent reference to Obama's admitted drug use as a young man. How is that playing?
People kind of assume that there are African Americans who don't articulate and don't support the traditional view in the African-American community. But that's not going to have a dramatic impact.
How do you assess John Edwards's position in your state, the state where he was born?
I think there is some support in South Carolina for John Edwards, but I think that the real race in South Carolina will be between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Will Edwards take more votes away from Obama or Clinton?
I'm not sure.
Where is the white vote in South Carolina leaning these days?
I don't know. I went to a rally with Obama and Oprah, and just the [nature of the] audience was a change for South Carolina. You had 40,000 people. It was like a rainbow of black, white, Asians, Hispanics, young and old, who came out to show their support for Obama. I thought that in itself was a change for South Carolina, a change for the South.
There are skeptics who think that a black man cannot really win in the South. They might cite Harold Ford's [unsuccessful] campaign for a Senate seat in Tennessee. Do you think that Obama is in a better position than candidates who have preceded him?
No. I think it's a process that we go through, a kind of evolutionary process. Harold Ford came very close, but the former governor of Virginia, [Douglas] Wilder, won. You've had black mayors of cities in the South … I think there is a change coming. The window may be open for a person who is African-American to get through this time. I think that he'll have a much, much, much better chance this time around than at any other point [before this].
You've spoken about how sophisticated the Obama campaign organization is in South Carolina. We've heard that the campaign has gone so far as to organize people who run hair salons and barber shops to campaign for him. Is that correct, and can you explain the relevance of that?
Absolutely. The discussions in the African-American community are held, in some instances, around barber shops and cosmetology operations. And when you are trying to reach the masses of people, you have to go where the masses are. There's [also] an effort being made to organize around the congregations of the churches. That's what I mean about grass-roots organizing: it goes outside the traditional institutions that organizers have used in the past. There's an effort made to reach out to folk who have not been involved in the political process, and Obama has kind of engaged them in the discussion of the race.
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