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Sunday, February 04, 2007

And why do these cats keep leaving out Lenora Fulani and Shirley Chisholm?

Sen. Biden’s Foot-in-Mouth Disease? Or, just plain ole’ boyz bigotry?ASCENT Blog Daily thoughts, comments and news ....What we appreciate about Biden is that he says it, unabashedly - so we know where he stands. Horowitz toys with it. Perhaps he meant the “first” Black presidential candidate of “bright” caliber - but, what about Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton before him? And: why cats keep leaving out Lenora Fulani and Shirley Chisholm confounds us. So, in actuality, Obama isn’t the first. But, in some way, Biden is implying that age-old stereotype of the slick, wily, cunning and fast Black hustler, as if to say Obama is the “first” to pull it off. ...

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