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Article: The N-word and why black power could halt Obamas White House bid; Race: Barack and Michelle Obama may not be black enough.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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Byline: PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON
FROM the moment Barack Obama appeared on Amer-icas national polit-ical stage, he was always going to be a controversial figure. A half-white, half-black man with the poise and rhetori-cal flights of a Kennedy. A Harvard graduate aban-doned by his Kenyan father to be raised by a sin-gle white mother. A man with the middle name Hussein running for the White House in post-9/11 America.
Yet, what few could have imag-ined was the degree of animus he would stir within Americas own black community and, in particu-lar, its African-American leaders.
It was revealed that the Rev. Jesse Jackson, for decades the dominant voice in black ...
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