[LottiFurmann]

Steve Cohen is a Democrat who serves as the representative for the Ninth District of Tennessee. He happens to be a Jewish politician in a heavily black district. This year, he's being challenged in the Democratic primary by Nikki Turner. Turner has refused to distance herself from a campaign circulating this piece of trash:

She is also running ridiculous ads linking Cohen to the Ku Klux Klan. Barack Obama has intervened in local races before, but he's silent on this one. Will he oppose this anti-Jewish Democrat? After 20 years of silence at Trinity, I don't think so.

http://guidetotheperplexed.blogspot.com/

Note: the strongest objection to Cohen came from the black churches who objected to Cohen's objection to the anti hate speech bill. The local coalition of black ministers stated that this would impinge on their right to curse the gays.