Film Noir

by digby

In Modo’s hit piece today she quotes Obama saying something that I had to go look up to believe.

He said:

“We have a certain script in our politics, and one of the scripts for black politicians is that for them to be authentically black they have to somehow offend white people,” Obama said in an interview. “And then if he puts a multiracial coalition together, he must somehow be compromising the efforts of the African-American community.

“To use a street term,” he added, “we flipped the script.”

I’ve never heard of this script. Is it true?

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