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On the edge of a potential Obama triumph, Ta-Nehisi Coates says light skinned brothers are making a comeback:
That's what the I'm talking about. All you Morris Chestnut chocolate boy wonders. All you Denzel Washington mocha macks. All you Mekhi Phifer/Omar Epps/Michael K. Williams/Derek Luke/Pete Rock mofos, I got two words for you--Time's. Up.
Honestly, did we ever leave? Because between Colin Powell, Benjamin Jealous, Sean Paul, Wentworth Miller, Damien Marley, Ludacris, Terence Howard and Warhawk I feel like the comeback, if it happened, preceded Obama. And I mean, LL never left.
Besides, the news that Terence Howard was bounced, without being told, from his role in Iron Man by Don Cheadle may be a harbinger of the eventual backlash. Alan Keyes is waiting in the wings...
--A. Serwer
