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In one scene, the play’s pivotal character, Clo, comes down hard on America’s first black president, essentially asking “what has he done for blacks lately?”
“There’s a fine line between courageous and crazy and to take up the issue of President Obama is not easy, especially in his hometown,” Anderson-Cobb admitted during a telephone interview on Wednesday.
“But he comes to Chicago in the midst of some kind of killing spree, collect money from a fund-raiser and leaves. We as a community have to do more than just pay for him to get re-elected,” she said.
