Obama's Wife Decries Blackness Question

Is this question ever going to go away? It is very irrelevant. What does whether he is classified as black or biracial have to do with what kind of president he would be? :crazy:

==CHICAGO -

The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who question her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling the issue "nonsense."

"We're still playing around with the question: Is he black enough?" Michelle Obama told a campaign event on Chicago's South Side. "Stop that nonsense."==

==She added that raising the specter of whether her husband - whose mother was white and whose father was Kenyan - was sufficiently black sent a confusing message to kids.

"We are messing with the heads of our children," she said.==

Read the rest at http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/13/ap4013815.html

and ask if they are white, black or whatever color enough.

Or maybe even ask the questioner if they are faithful enough to their spouse, spend enough time with their children, properly respect their parents, did they earn every grade they received for their degree or did they cheat, did they ever intentionally use false information in any of their stories?

"Are you (insert color here) enough?". Um, um, yeah, well, I guess I am.

stupid and pointless - at best

I believe he's been doing a good job with it so far. He's managed to answer it without turning off whites or blacks--and understand that the question keeps getting raised because it creates a trap for him to do just that. I liked his New York taxi cab answer. I like the way he criticizes the question without sounding too angry about it. And recently there was a story of him turning the question into a wonderful answer on race in America.

In short, so far Obama has used this question brilliantly to his advantage, despite it being obnoxious and annoying. He needs to continue to do that, and not get so frustrated with the question that he starts snapping, or trying to come up with more creative, more definitive answers. He needs to understand that the question will be with him the rest of his career, even if he wins in 08. It's subtle code, it allows racism into the race by seeming to reverse the normal focus of the attack. Instead of asking "Will white people vote for a black man?" his opponents can ask "Is Obama really a black man? Does he really share the black experience? Is he really black enough to win the black vote?" They are really asking "Can a black man win?" without having to make white people seem like the intolerant ones. That will stay around as long as he is in public office.

I'm sure he knows this, and I'm sure he understands how to answer the question. He's a pretty smart dude. I'm sure he also understands the potential for opening a race discussion that doesn't center on blatant forms of racism, but addresses the more subtle forms of racism that presently infect the nation, and presently keep disproportionate numbers of African Americans in jail or off voter registration roles or out of the top paying jobs or just plain-old unemployed. Post-Civil Rights racism, if you will. By letting others ask "Does a rich, successful, almost white-seeming black man like you really share the black experience?" he opens the discussion on just what that black experience is, and in what ways he shares it. It's a discussion this nation needs to have at times other than when hurricanes wipe out "chocolate" cities or morning talk show hosts spout racial hatred, because racial inequity is alive and kicking not just on those occasions but at all other times as well.

My thoughts on it.

by some white person. I do believe Obama took the bait and is out there trying to convince black folk he is black enough. If Obama has done all of what he has said in the past( i believe him) about him not forgetting where he came from and helping inner city youths and the poor and disabled then he does not have to prove he is black enough. This is old school, where if a black person succeeds then there is always someone out there that hollars loud that so and so has not helped the black community. Why would he even let himself be dragged into this mess.
I have said all along the racist gop would love to run against Obama and if he and his wife are spending time trying to convince the black community he is black enough then think what the white folk are thinking. Especially the gop. They did this in Tenn. to Harold Ford Jr. and all the gop had to do was run an add with a white, blond headed woman that at the end of the ad said, " harold, give me a call". (note: this was in reference to Ford going to the Playboy mansion)

IN THIS ELECTION, WE ALL ARE GOING TO SEE FINALLY WHO THE RACIST AND SEXIST REALLY ARE IN THIS COUNTRY.......

I do thank you
Ben David

Because you are educated you no longer fit into your race. The media was wrong for bringing this question up in the first place.