Update: The Illinois chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women) is calling on Barack Obama’s political mentor Emil Jones "to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for calling an African-American Hillary Clinton delegate an 'Uncle Tom.'"
"Last night, I was called an 'Uncle Tom' by Emil Jones," charges Delmarie Cobb, an African-American delegate for Hillary Clinton. Emil Jones is Barack Obama's political mentor, reports the Chicago Sun Times.
"If people are still making digs at the Hillary Clinton people because we supported her, that is not going to bring us on board. It makes us feel as though we're outsiders, and we're Democrats," Cobb said. "The litmus test for being black is [seen as] supporting Barack."
Cobb said she saw Clinton supporters walking into an Illinois delegation meeting at the Marlowe Restaurant on Sunday and being handed Obama buttons, only to put the buttons in their pockets. That prompted the greeters to say, "You can tell the Hillary Clinton people, they never take the buttons."
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