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60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough." The Senator articulated inter alia that: "I ... notice when I'm catching a cab, nobody's confused about that." In a later segment of the interview, Mrs. Obama joined her husband. Did she worry, as Alma Powell famously had, about some crazy person with a gun? Replied the lady: "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station." Thus was revealed a depressing truth about ...