While I think Stringfellow is a bit soft on Obadele ("a fascinating scholar???"), he should be commended for speaking up against this event.
The truth is Kenneth Stokes is acknowledged as an extremist and a racist by many blacks in Jackson. It is a very good thing that influential blacks are not sitting by and ignoring Stokes' provocative actions. By contrast, I think many white liberals are perfectly content to ignore his actions. Heck, just look how much attention this incident has received in the Jackson Free Press (NONE as far as I can tell!).
Stokes would have been dead man walking dead once upon a time.
just an odd thought....guess we can call that progress.