Michelle LaVaughn Robinson's undergraduate thesis cites Stokey Carmichael's 1967 Black Panther propaganda as part of a sociological survey on the attitudes of African-American Princeton alumni in the mid-1980's.

I would think the thesis advisor did right by asking that any survey take into account the context in which Princeton alumni would regard their college experiences some 20 years after the 'black-liberation' days of the 1960's.

Chris Hitchens instead makes the remarkable claim that this college paper is reason enough for the electorate to demand that Senator Obama clarify for the record that he isn't married to a vicious racist (it would have been nice if we'd known this about Barbara Bush though). Maybe Obama should also tell us when he stopped beating his wife?

Moreover, it's perfectly possible for anyone--including Stokey Carmichael--to write a coherent argument and later turn into a demented sociopath. I have no interest in reading Black Panther propaganda to prove that this was the case, but I do own a copy of Hitchen's book on Kissinger. Again, an example of how someone can write thoughtfully early in their career before alcoholism, drug abuse, narcissism, etc., take their toll.