Ake:

My apologies if I misinterpreted your expression about Obama that "he is a token black man set up by the $yStem as a foil to the discredited right."

However he is not a token, he is a candidate; and he is much less a black man than he is a human being. He is also a father, husband, Constitutional scholar, community organizer and a Senator in the United States Congress.

As for being a "foil", you imply he is somebody's knowing or unknowing puppet. What facts do you have in support of this idea, if that is what you think?

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