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L egaL N otices
Handicapping
African-
American
Progress for
Decades
C ontinued froM P age 17
Obama’s constituents. Farrakhan
also was the religious leader of
many of Obama’s Illinois constit-
uents.
To categorically state that
Obama should not have taken a
picture with Farrakhan ignores the
complexity of the African Ameri-
can community and takes Obama
out of that context by asserting
that his main concern should have
been the comfort level of white
liberals.
There is not enough room here
to list the many interactions of
Obama’s predecessors with con-
troversial figures that drew little
attention, but I feel compelled to
mention one. In 1915 Woodrow
Wilson hosted a screening of D.W.
Griffith’s extraordinarily racist
film “Birth of a Nation.” It was
one of the first screenings of a film
at the White House and members
of Wilson’s cabinet were in atten-
dance along with their families.
Wilson’s hosting the screening of
“Birth of a Nation” barely rates
a footnote in American history
while Obama’s having his picture
taken with Farrakhan has some
white liberals like Dershowitz in
conniptions.
The disparate responses to
these two events point out a war
of ideas between Black folk and
many white liberals. A war that
has simmered in this nation since
its birth and continues to this day.
We can love our allies, and still
have a concern that they do not
speak against our interest when
our interests diverge from theirs.
Alan Dershowitz and others of our
allies must come to understand
this.
Oscar H. Blayton is a former
Marine Corps combat pilot and
human rights activist who practic-
es law in Virginia.
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