"To be fair, these questions about Obama’s 'blackness' are not originating from white opposition to Obama. A few black writers and leaders are raising the question: Is Barack black enough? Put him in a three year old Toyota and send him driving in an all white upper middle class neighborhood and see how long it takes before he is pulled over by the police. Or let’ s put him out front of the Indy airport among similarly dressed white guys and see if it takes him longer to get a cab. Let’s change his name to George Jefferson, and have him apply for a mortgage on a $100,000 home in a predominately black neighborhood and see if he has any problems getting the loan. In those situations, I’ll bet he is black enough"
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Booker T. Washington said:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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