If he gets elected, I can promise that there are going to be a lot of racist jokes about it.
I actually haven't seen anybody in the Russian media call attention to Obama's ethnicity, which is kind of weird. Probably just haven't noticed it.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [via Mike Allen]
>
> TALKER DU JOUR - WashPost A1, "Racist Incidents Give
> Some Obama
> Campaigners Pause: "For all the hope and excitement
> Obama's candidacy
> is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank
> volunteers and
> campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism
> and hostility that
> have gone largely unnoticed - and unreported - this
> election season.
> Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been
> called racially
> derogatory names (including the white volunteers).
> And they've
> endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from
> people who can't
> fathom that the senator from Illinois could become
> the first African
> American president. The contrast between the large,
> adoring crowds
> Obama draws at public events and the gritty
> street-level work to win
> votes is stark. The candidate is largely insulated
> from the mean-
> spiritedness that some of his foot soldiers deal
> with away from the
> media spotlight."
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