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- 22 -He even went so far to do the good darkie dance during the televised democratic debate in Cleveland, OHlast week with media-whore number one MSNBC moderator Tim Russert getting in his face with questions,accusations really, about the public NOI endorsement. Instead of challenging Mr. Russert on why thisquestion is not asked of the republican John McCain who grandly accepts endorsements from the likes ofevangelical hate-monger John Hagee who calls for open warfare between American Christians and Muslims,he allowed Russert to berate him incessantly on the issue:TIM RUSSERT: On Sunday, the headline in your home-town paper, Chicago Tribune: “Louis FarrakhanBacks Obama for President at Nation of Islam Convention in Chicago.” Do you accept the support of LouisFarrakhan?SEN. BARACK OBAMA: You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan’santi-Semitic comments. I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible. I did not solicit this support. Heexpressed pride in an African American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can’tcensor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally orinformally with Minister Farrakhan.TIM RUSSERT: Do you reject his support?SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Well, Tim, you know, I can’t say to somebody that he can’t say that he thinksI’m a good guy. You know, I—you know, I have been very clear in my denunciations of him and his paststatements, and I think that indicates to the American people what my stance is on those comments.TIM RUSSERT: The problem some voters may have is, as you know, Reverend Farrakhan calledJudaism “gutter religion.”SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Tim, I think—I am very familiar with his record, as are the American people.That’s why I have consistently denounced it. This is not something new. This is something that—I live inChicago. He lives in Chicago. I’ve been very clear, in terms of me believing that what he has said isreprehensible and inappropriate. And I have consistently distanced myself from him.That’s for damn sure. Obama and his people have done everything possible to distance themselves fromauthentic African social identifiers that unlike the Obama campaign, gallantly articulate a reality WhiteAmericans have no idea exists right beneath their proverbial noses. It simply is not allowed in the unwrittenrules governing American socio-political discourse or policy. “The immoveable veil of Blackness,” Obama soembarrassingly totes as Eugenically articulated by early colonial American Founding Fathers ThomasJefferson, Dr. Benjamin Rush and the Dred Scott Decision is something to be pitied, not respected, as it fallsfar short of an authentic humanity. While Europocentric intellectuals were aware of the inherent “humanity” ofthe African, they only recognized it partially, not unlike how a breeder strives to define a newly recognisedspecies of dog. So to suggest that Barack Obama is subject to right-wing belittlement and the relentlessconfirmation of his loyalty to White American interests because he is a “Black” candidate is correct and