Bobin’ and Weavin’

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Before I mentioned BET founder Bob Johnson’s already notorious comments about Obama’s youthful drug use. But just after those comments he said this …

That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”

Still not racially charged? Reasonable? Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

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