Ain't Black Enough?

What's good America? Today we are here to talk about that phrase you see above this first couple lines of text. The reason I brought it up today because we've got an election coming up, probably one of the biggest and most historically relevant in recent decades and one of the candidates Barack Obama is of African American decent (if you like that term.) One of the ideals that propaganda machines think up to slight Obama is that he "isn't black enough" or that he is "too white bred for blacks to relate with him and his policies". What in the blue hell does that really mean? Is this refering to his skin or his bi-racial heritage? No not at all, the context that these naysayers are speaking of is the way that he carries himself.

What I percieve of Obama is that he is a family oriented, articulate, intelligent and successful black man; Someone a young person can look up to and idolize from any race. Basically by saying he "isn't black enough" is stating that a black person cannot be synonymous with being intelligent, articulate or success oriented? A black person can't be a good father or husband? I'm guessing what people mean by being "black" goes beyond the skin color and history of the race and is pigeon holed to perpetuating the stereotypes that are depicted in the media? Maybe speaking broken english, being dumb as a box of rocks and having several different baby mommas confirms a persons blackness? Maybe it's a jail record or eating fried chicken that explains your blackness? Does this make any sense to you because it makes no sense to me. Maybe someone needs to explain what being black is first before saying a person can't qualify because last time I checked being black does not define my intelligence level, or how I carry myself on a daily basis. Yes, I love fried chicken and speak slang from time to time and no I don't have a baby mother or a prison record; Does that make me more or less black than a person who shares my history and skin color?

We have to quit allowing people to subtley insult us, tt happens all the time. Look at the recent KFC commercial where there is a black family. They live in what looks to be an apartment and the father is nowhere to be found in the commercial. That's a quiet form of how people view us as a people. Fox News blatantly acknowledged his wife Michelle Obama as his baby mother. Look how they treat us but it's only because we allow it. We can't let them do that anymore.