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Book exploits racial fears, hate in effort to scare white America
Jerome R. Corsi's book about Barack Obama is a good example of the right wing's racial fear-mongering.
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In reducing Obama's race for the presidency to an "abomination," Corsi is using the same tired tactics that were used when it became clear that the late Harold Washington would likely become the first black mayor of Chicago.
Corsi's words are meant to warn skittish white folks that an Obama in the White House would be the beginning of the end.
And the racial cues are obvious.
Instead of a warm and smiling Obama peering from the cover, Simon & Schuster and its editor, Mary Matalin, a former Republican operative, chose a menacing and noticeably darker photograph of Obama.
Origin of black churches ignored
Corsi's book made the front page of Wednesday's New York Times even though the reporters acknowledged that several of the book's charges are "unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate."..........
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