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This Week: Obama is called a racist; we give Channing Tatum his credit; and there’s a call for lots more Mishka Shubaly and cock dancing (go figure).

Obamalot of Lies
Russ Smith is correct about Obama’s speech (“Obamalot,” March 26-April 2). The media predictably over-praised his dreary, self-serving lecture on race in order to pump up his campaign. It was not an act of courage, it was an act of expediency by Obama in order to salvage his presidential campaign. However, Obama did not disavow his racist church and minister, and he publicly humiliated his grandmother who is still alive and deserves better.

Obama is a divider, not a uniter, who is increasing the racial divide. Obama does not transcend race, which is a media myth. The fact is that Barack Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother. Based on the black separatist church he belongs to, the incendiary Jeremiah Wright who is his spiritual advisor and the fact is that he married a belligerent white-hating woman makes Obama a militant, black extremist who is not suited to racially unite this country.

If Obama’s goal was to reach out to people who feel uncomfortable about his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ and his relationship to Jeremiah Wright, he failed big time.
—Reba Shimansky, NY


Channing Tatum Time
The review of Stop-Loss (“A Hero’s Welcome,” March 26-April 2) included a photo that identified one of the main actors (Channing Tatum) by his character’s name (Steve Shriver). Please correct, the poor guy did a pretty good job!
—Barbara Glover


More Mishka
Dear New York Press, Mishka Shubaly can actually write!  “Lost in Texas” (March 19-25) has great sentences like “Damien has texted me a picture of his naked ass pressed against my unconscious face in the alley.” I don’t remember ever admiring the prose style of a New York Press writer (OK, maybe Jonathan Ames), but Mishka evokes double-whoops of delight.
—Sparrow, Phoenicia, NY

More Cock Dance
I’m writing to tell you how much I enjoyed Margeaux Baulch’s “Making Love to the Camera” (Flavor of the Week, March 19-25). It was so real and honest that I think many people can relate to it, myself included. So many people fantasize about experiences like this and might actually try them out; but they are rarely brazen enough to tell anyone besides their best friend, much less write a delightfully entertaining column in the NY Press. Give my regards to Margeaux & Alex...and I want to hear more about the cock dance!
—Clair Wholean