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John McLaughlin of TV's Sunday morning political roundtable show "The McLaughlin Group" referred to Sen. Obama as an "Oreo" during a broadcast over the weekend.
While discussing recent comments made by the Rev. Jesse Jackson about Obama, McLaughlin said to his panel: "Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?"
Panelist and Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Peter Beinart answered: "Who knows what Jesse Jackson is thinking? But that's a completely unfair depiction of Barack Obama."
Later in the show, Michelle Bernard, president of the Independent Women's Forum, said: "I want to go back to the point you made about whether or not Obama is an Oreo, because if Barack Obama is an Oreo, then every member of this generation of African-Americans is an Oreo, because we stand on the shoulders of the people who fought for our rights, and all of us say that you cannot blame 'the man' or white racism for everything that ails the black community.'"
