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Does Perry's flaunting of African-American stereotypes amount to blackface? There's no question that among the weeping queens, strutting kings and ego-deflating jokers in his pack, he does play the race card. But he's dealing it to fellow blacks, and if enough of them didn't love it, he couldn't have afforded the lavish new house he built in suburban Atlanta. You could also ask if Perry is mocking the folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt...
...officiated at Obama's wedding and baptized both his children. But Wright had also said a lot of incendiary things from his pulpit about America over the years, things that would be awkward to explain away for a politician hoping to unite the country and become the first African-American President of the United States...
...blame the African-American community for being proud of having a candidate who's immensely impressive, who has had a lot of support in the North among non-African-Americans, and has generated all this excitement among young people. I don't think it's rocket science...
...argue with his success. Even his worst critics would have to say he's been an extraordinary ex-President." But, Brinkley told TIME, "there's a fear now that, by being the pit bull for Hillary Clinton on a few occasions, he's doing some damage, particularly in the African-American community, where he has lost some stature. He really seemed to have a feel for the plight of the African-American community, and a lot of that has been watered down in the wake of his campaign role of attacking Obama...
...reminded his questioners that he has his offices in Harlem - in a district his wife carried - and that accusations that his remarks were racially motivated were unfounded. "The minute it became possible that [Obama] could be the nominee, he was going to win the lion's share of the African-American vote," he said. "And I never begrudged it. Contrary to the myth, I went through South Carolina and never said a bad word about Senator Obama...