Article: 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough.".(The Week)(Brief article)

60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough." The Senator articulated inter alia that: "I ... notice when I'm catching a cab, nobody's confused about that." In a later segment of the interview, Mrs. Obama joined her husband. Did she worry, as Alma Powell famously had, about some crazy person with a gun? Replied the lady: "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station." Thus was revealed a depressing truth about ...

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