Quite a few of my friends and neighbors growing up were black.
Big deal. I never once thought to myself, "How black do I have to be to be accepted by them?"
So, having ZERO experience understanding this apparent dynamic, I ask Jesse Jackson and his friends.......
"How black does Barack Obama have to be to be an "acceptable black" candidate? Or person, for that matter?"
His off-color comment about Obama was childish (not knowing a "mic was live" is no excuse for a man who's made a living talking into microphones), but the whole "talking down to black people" thing.
Telling men to be fathers. That's not talking down, that's just speaking the truth.
I wonder out loud when Bill Cosby went into the "not black enough" category by raising the same issues??
We'll never be a colorblind world until EVERYONE stops looking through their "insert color here" colored glasses.
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If they x rayed Jessie's brain, they would find out that it was actually the size of.......a nut!
Obama's not black enough for some
Americans because he has dignity.
I think Bill Cosby should run for president.
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