the thing I'd dislike the most, though, is being subjected to rap, and rap by a white guy, who thinks it's an appropriate thing to do just because the candidate's black.
I'm sure it's hard to take in bits and pieces of discussion and have them make sense, but Selby's rap had nothing to do with Obama. The scene was taken from Selby's book, "Lincoln's Better Angel," and was of Lincoln and the book's main character watching the performance of a black choir member who was rapping "The Gettysburg Address." Selby's point was that words NEED to be SPOKEN, not just read, and the young man in the book was doing just that.
If you're interested in the book, Pansity just posted a review in a separate thread.
I'd go find it now, but my computer would probably crash.
Judy