So Obama is being excused by Snopes as his use of "*****" was taken out of context.
Wow! How biased can that be?
And guess what... Obama was offended. BUT NOT BY THE word "*****"!
Because he hadn't read Malcolm X! Not the word... the context mind you!
"You guys talking about Malcolm? Malcolm tells it like it is. No doubt about it."
"Yeah," another guy said. "But I'll tell you what. You won't moving to no African jungle anytime soon. Or some goddamn desert somewhere sitting on a carpet. With a bunch of Arabs. No sir. You won't stop me eating no ribs, either. Gotta have them ribs. And ***** too. Don't Malcolm talk about no *****. Now you know that ain't gonna work."
I noticed Ray laughing and looked at him sternly.
"What are you laughing at?" I said to him. "You never even read Malcolm. You don't even know what he says."
FALSE: President Obama Demands 'Ribs and ***** Too'
And then the biased Snopes says it is MOSTLY FALSE!!!
Obama didn't have to put this passage in the book. He didn't have to READ this passage to a bunch of people possibly young children who read the book
or in the Cambridge audience.
His choice of using the word... NOT surreptitiously. Not in an off mic comment. BUT Deliberately and on purpose!
Obama said
"Gotta have them ribs and ***** too!"