A box of Obama Waffles is seen in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. A vendor at a conservative political forum was selling boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. The product was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix and sold it for $10 a box at the Values Voter Summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.
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One of the nightmares and at the same time wonderful things about the Obama candidacy is that we are finally taking on both the active and latent racism that exists in this country. And of course we find that...surprise!!...it is heaviest among those aligned with the conservative and white Christian folk. So maybe the rest of us will be able to take back our country from these cretins and maybe not...but in the end the line will drawn all the more deeply in the sand and the battles to build a just a sane society will be much more free of obfuscation.
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