"I have a friend who is, to use anachronistic Southern venacular, quadroon (he's 3/4 white and a 1/4 black). Somebody in college once challenged his blackness to which he elegantly replied, "I may not be black enough for you, but what matters is that when I'm walking down the street or at a job interview, all people see is another n****er." As a former public school teacher, I love the idea that my former students could conceivably see someone who looks like them become "the most powerful man in the world."
-- Bryan
"Stick that where the sun don't shine, Debra Dickerson (http://chittlintalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/annnnddddd-thump-on-head-to.html)...and next time you're trying to figure out WHO the REAL 'Black' people are listening to, rest assured, it's NOT you.
They're listening to your favorite 'not black, but African African American,' Barack Obama."
-- Anonymous
"Obama black enough? I don't get this argument that the media wants to drum up: 'Is Obama black enough'?
"I don't hear you asking Hilary or John E. if they are 'black enough'? Why is it that the media wants to make Obama jump through hoops-(or make him think that he does) when he is -THE ONLY BLACK CANDIDATE! It's such a stupid argument. I don't understand why he is being singled out for something so idiotic.
"I hope Obama won't be drug into the middle of these "stereotypical" arguments. I think he is much more than that.He can define himself and doesn't need anyone help.
Bethincary
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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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