Despite the beautiful speech the night of his South Carolina victory where he proclaimed that he "didn't see a black South Carolina or a white South Carolina." Well apparently since times are getting rough in Pennsylvania, his campaign have put on glasses that allow him to see the tint of people's skin color more clearly.
Here's the link:http://www.thetartan.org/2008/4/7/news/o bama
But the pertinent part is as follows:
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama's event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan's correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though."
"I didn't know they would say, `We need a white person here,' " said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright."
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