http://www.thetartan.org/2008/4/7/news/obama
Some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama=92s
event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs.
Obama. The Tartan=92s correspondents observed one event coordinator say
to another, =93Get me more white people, we need more white people.=94 To
an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, =93We=92re
moving you, sorry. It=92s going to look so pretty, though.=94
=93I didn=92t know they would say, =91We need a white person here,=92"
said
attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the
crowd behind Mrs. Obama. =93I understood they would want a show of
diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn=92t know it
would be so outright.=94...
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Two Muslim women who attended Barack Obama's event Monday in Detroit
were told they couldn't stand behind the candidate, Politico re****ted.
One was told her head covering was an issue, and another was told by
an Obama volunteer that for political reasons they didn't want Muslims
appearing with him on TV. Melissa Block talks with Ben Smith, senior
political re****ter at the Politico...
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