Salih Booker from Africa Action recently spoke to BlackElectorate.com publisher Cedric Muhammad. "...not only are these identities hardening in Darfur, and I would say throughout Sudan; if you look at the East African press, you will see it happening more broadly now. So yes it is being framed as an Arab-African split, as a racial conflict, and this is gathering momentum in ways that I think (sigh) are troubling."