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• Tuesday, March 11, 2008 07:43 AM

  Personally, I think the Obama in Somali garb photo is a great "teaching moment"

  wrt turbans and other things ... many people wear turbans besides moslems, notably Hindi and Sikhs that I can think of, but I would not be surprised if there are other non-muslim turban type head dress wearers. Here in the West, most turban wearers seem to be Indian subcontinent types.

  In Afghanistan, if I recall, while wearers ARE muslim, the type of turban worn, irrc, indicates your tribe, which likely has some intra-muslim sect lineage involved, but as I understand it is more about clan affliation, and intermarriage between clans/tribes is part of the social fabric. Whatever. I've hoped the could trace the circulation of this (public record, as I understand it) photograph, but apparently are left with simple accusation of "GOP tactics"

  Disturbingly, the NYT has an op-ed today -- The Red Phone in Black and White -- saying some of us missed the racist underlying message of the "3 am phone call ad" -- link on my name -- apparently, he seems to say, the Clinton campaign consciously or unconsciously plays to our latent and/or unconscious racism ... this is the first I've heard of this particular accusation.

  Author: "Orlando Patterson is a professor of sociology at Harvard and the author of “The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s ‘Racial’ Crisis.”

  Let the games begin. (I am so sick of this campaign season)

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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