In Reply to: Obama the Racist posted by sm on July 04, 2008 at 22:38:28:
I kind of feel like I'm wasting my time even responding to and refuting silly crud like this, but anyway:
Obama wrote of being deeply impressed by the autobiography of Malcolm X, whose “repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words … promised a new and uncompromising order.”
But he added an important caveat: “All the other stuff, the talk of blue-eyed devils and apocalypse, was incidental to that program, I decided, religious baggage that Malcolm himself seemed to have safely abandoned toward the end of his life.”