Malik Zulu Shabazz, one of the defendants in the trumped up New Black Panther voter intimidation case, has recently apologized to President Barack Obama for saying this:

He said: “He represents the CIA, set-up, sabotage, lie on an African leader and bomb [sic] that man like he’s George Bush … And his wife should leave the n***er tonight. She should walk out, and his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom. Oh yeah, I said it. We’ve held back on this Negro for a long time … You should have listened to Louis Farrakhan a long time ago when you were at his table.”

Obviously that whole “buck-dancing tom” thing was code for “we have your back in the next election.”

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer