William Jelani Cobb on the Black Left: "Obama and the Suicidal Left"
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Not a response, but this from my Vibe colleague Jalylah Burrell gets to the heart of something at the root of some displeasure with Obama:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright proved himself to have some foolish tendencies at his wild press conference, but damn it, he will always have a special place in my heart and my psyche and that of so many African Americans for cultivating a space in which we can be UNASHAMEDLY BLACK. We don't have to shrink from our color, our names, our musical tastes, our everything.
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