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Black Commenter, Criticizing Obama, Causes Firestorm
washingtonpost.com ^ | 02/16/08 | Darryl Fears

Posted on 02/16/2008 4:53:50 PM PST by TornadoAlley3

Tavis Smiley, the bestselling author of the "Covenant With Black America," is in a world turned upside down. He said he's being "hammered," "barbecued," and is "catching hell" from black Americans for suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made a major mistake by declining to speak at the State of the Black Union event that Smiley plans to host next week in New Orleans.

"There's all this talk of hater, sellout and traitor," Smiley said to me in a telephone interview. Smiley even mentioned getting death threats, but wouldn't elaborate. He said his office has been flooded with angry e-mails. "I have family in Indianapolis. They are harassing my momma, harassing my brother. It's getting to be crazy," Smiley said.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; blackvote; chebama; nobama; obama; racewar; smiley; tavissmiley
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To: TornadoAlley3

Welcome to a faint shadow of the world that Clarence Thomas has been living in for years, Tavis. How’s it feel, jerk?


21 posted on 02/16/2008 5:31:11 PM PST by Hunton Peck (The "soft" bigotry of liberals is far more damaging than the overt bigotry of old-style Democrats.)
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To: Drango

LMAO, “Barak, the Magic Negro”. Still laughing.


22 posted on 02/16/2008 5:44:50 PM PST by newconhere (bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Tell all your dopey white friends who are “inspired” by Obama about this to bring them back to earth: he is the Black candidate, and nothing more.


23 posted on 02/16/2008 5:52:07 PM PST by montag813
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To: TornadoAlley3

Obama is pretty smart to avoid this. Despite him winning only states with a 49% Black electorate, and rigged caucuses, Obama is trying to keep alive the fiction that he is anything other than the Black fringe cadidiate.


24 posted on 02/16/2008 6:13:33 PM PST by montag813
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To: newconhere
LMAO, “Barak, the Magic Negro”. Still laughing.

Written by a liberal columnist in the DNC Times of Los Angeles.

25 posted on 02/16/2008 6:16:44 PM PST by Christian4Bush (41-David, End Of Watch. Rest in Peace, SWAT Officer Randall Simmons.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Imagine if a bunch of white people got together for a “White State of the Union.” How pathetic would that be? Doesn’t the word “union” imply we are all in it together? Who is forcing whom to segregate here, anyway, Tavis?


26 posted on 02/16/2008 6:30:42 PM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: tomnbeverly
“racist, hater, homophobe, far Right Wing Conservatives...”

You’ll have to do better than that, they already call us all those things. :^)

27 posted on 02/16/2008 6:33:42 PM PST by pepperdog
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To: Cowboy Bob

or being pimped out...


28 posted on 02/16/2008 8:45:33 PM PST by castlebrew (true gun control is hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Hmmmm ..?? wrong guess - you better keep your day job.


29 posted on 02/16/2008 10:28:43 PM PST by CyberAnt (AMERICA: The greatest nation on the face of the earth.)
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To: Old Sarge
"Another famous black author, Larry Elder, also wrote: “Blacks are more racist than whites”."

Larry speaks the truth.

30 posted on 02/17/2008 2:34:17 AM PST by Mila
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To: TornadoAlley3
I know Tavis Smiley’s brother Guy Smiley on Sesame Street..
31 posted on 02/17/2008 2:52:36 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: newconhere

You need to see the video on youtube that’s has the audio of the Paul Shanklin song.

The song:
Barack the magic negro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ

Rush gives the background to the appellation, which originated from a black L.A. Times editorialist:
“Barack The Magic Negro” The History Of The Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0HCXpbxh9s


32 posted on 02/17/2008 2:54:18 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Tavis Smiley suckles at the teat of PBS...when Bill Moyers isn’t working it.


33 posted on 02/17/2008 2:56:35 AM PST by toddlintown (Ronald Reagan would vote for McCain, just like he sucked it up and supported Gerry Ford.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Of course. It is racism. Blacks voting only for blacks because they are black, is racism. It is a vote against whitey. Racism. Oh, wait, I forgot, blacks cannot be racist. Even when they call us honkies.
34 posted on 02/17/2008 2:58:40 AM PST by RetiredArmy (It is time for Conservatives to think about forming our own party. NO MORE RINOs!!)
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To: tomnbeverly
I have to agree with you on this point.

In fact I’ve already heard of such accusations from “friends” over a evening dinner engagement. After a bit of bashing I simply sat quiet, in utter amazement! I leaned over and told my date I was going to ask the waitress for some tinfoil.

And all I could think of was the line from Atlas Shrugged about making things into a highly intellectual virtue...

35 posted on 02/17/2008 3:03:31 AM PST by EBH ( J. Galt for President)
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To: LdSentinal

Why, he’s an Uncle Bill.


36 posted on 02/17/2008 3:04:15 AM PST by sobieski
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To: montag813

Who cares? When HRC steals it at the Convention, all the air goes out of the D balloon, leaving the presidency for the taking. He’s the Rs best friend; may he keep going and keep dividing their base.


37 posted on 02/17/2008 3:06:49 AM PST by sobieski
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To: The Electrician
"Are we awake?
We're not sure. Are we black?
Yes, we are.
Then we're awake, but very puzzled."
38 posted on 02/17/2008 6:23:29 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: TornadoAlley3

Smiley is reflecting a common trait among race pimps — they can’t stand any black candidate who would seek white votes.

Too non-polarizing, which is what they are really all about.


39 posted on 02/17/2008 6:27:06 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: TornadoAlley3

Obama would be a fool to appear. He is running to be the President of all America.


40 posted on 02/17/2008 6:28:43 AM PST by kabar
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