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Delmarie Cobb, a Chicago political consultant, says State Senate President Emil Jones called her an "Uncle Tom" at hotel where the Illinois delegation is staying in Denver. Cobb, who is black, is a Hillary Clinton delegate, and says she and Jones were arguing about Clinton vs. Obama.
"Then he came up behind me. He said 'Thirty-five thousand people went to Springfield [to support Obama on Saturday],'" she said. "I said, 'Then 35,000 people drank the Kool-Aid.,' He said, 'Barack is a clean-cut guy. He never liked gutter politics, that's why the Clintons did so-and-so. ...' I said, 'I don't want to get into this. So I went over to the elevator, and he said, 'Uncle Tom!' Then he grabbed me and hugged me and started laughing. I said, 'What did you say?' I turned to Freddrenna Lyle, and I said, 'What did he say?' She wouldn't say anything, That's when I said some bad things to him."
Cobb was with Aldermen Freddrenna Lyle, Leslie Hairston, and Latasha Thomas, and Lyle says Jones was just joking around.
Jones denies using the term Uncle Tom and says Cobb may have misunderstood what he says was a reference to Doubting Thomas. [Trib, S-T]
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Did everyone miss the part where she compared the people at the Obama rally to the mass suicide at Jonestown? Sounds like Delmarie is very selective in what she finds offensive.
Who cares?
Sounds like she sees through the cult of obama.
I love this! Look at the kettle calling the pot white! I wonder did Emile Jones clear his statement with Daley first? Emile Jone's has been shuck'n and Jive'n and shinning shoes on the Daley Plantation since hector was a pup yet that Tom'n House N*gro" has "audacity" to call some one an Uncle Tom!
NOW is calling for Jones to resign IMMEDIATELY.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/dnc/1125006,emilupdate082508.article
Oh noes! Will Threemil have to stand on his own?
Frankly, I think this woman and Emil both sound like putzes who insulted each other. Yay! Democratic Unity! Yay!
to the post -- the uncle tom thing is so out of control ... i can't imagine how or why someone would call someone else that, but i also am not in that culture/race, so i'm a little bit of an outsider there. i'm sure there's a lot of levels of stuff going on there that i can't really grasp. needless to say, i think it's for shit.
@ albanyparkour: i don't think i've had the presence to remember what "drinking the kool-aid" really refers to. i know it always gets the hairs on my neck to stand up, but ... yeah. nice catch.
Can't black people use racial slurs? Isn't that the rule?
It isn't like me calling Clarence Thomas or Colin Powell an "uncle tom".
Because that would be insulting.
"that's when I said some bad things to him" Like what exactly?
good god children, if you can't say anything nice then shut the hell up. You're supposed to be on the same side.
@smussy:
Why? Because they're politicos used to getting their way who are easily frustrated.
I love Evil's response about "doubting thomas".
Just watch the right wing hate machine make this a big story. Again, putzes.
Spook, I think emil jones shucks and jives on the stroger plantation which is leased from the daley clan. Hopefully their will be a few Ricky Hendon qoutes coming from Denver, that man knows how to turn a phrase. I wonder if Obama is embarresed by his friends from Crook Co.. Kinda like the relatives you dont talk about.
Fed up HOPEFULLY the only qoute( now word on the street) coming from Hendon will be him lying infront of TV cameras saying "I'm not guilty" despite of a mountain of rock solid federal criminal evidence. And no its not like relatives, because you can't choose relatives, Obama choose these friends when he didn't have too. Heck maybe he could have been a Senator for a while longer and actually built a real grassroots movement like Paul Welstone was doing. He could have taken on Daley. Funny how Emile Jones is getting a Chicagoist pass on this one because its related to Obama. Yup Gooo Gooo Liberals