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Obama: Still Not Black Enough?

Remember way back when there was much discussion about whether Obama was ?black enough,? when that well-known black leader, Ralph Nader, said Obama talks white and ignores black issues?

You don?t hear that so much any more, since President Obama continues to embrace race preferences and has elevated identity politics to the Supreme Court. But you do still hear it, such as from Mary Mitchell, the Chicago Sun Times race columnist we last encountered here defending Rev. Jeremiah Wright from ?fear-mongering? whites.

In her column today Mitchell criticizes the Obama administration for being too ?colorblind? and says, endorsing a version of colorblindness herself (probably the only time she has ever done so), that

the NAACP and other civil rights organizations must be as colorblind as the Obama administration. By that, I mean the nation?s oldest civil rights organization has to hold the nation?s first black president as accountable as other presidents.

Some might think such actions are not necessary with a black president in the White House, but not Ms. Mitchell.

Hold on a minute. There is not a black president in the White House. There is a president in the White House who happens to be black.

As such, like all other presidents, he will have to be pushed into paying attention to the black agenda.

Consider this: When Bill Clinton was in the White House, Jackson practically had keys. But who from the grass roots of black America is speaking regularly to Obama about the issues that specifically relate to black people?

Jackson is on the outside looking in. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been banished. Minister Louis Farrakhan won't get an audience. The Rev. Al Sharpton is operating on the fringes.

Geez, she should give Obama some credit. True, he may not be having Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, or Farrakhan over for tea, but he will have a quota-supporting wise Latina on the Supreme Court.

Full post as published by Discriminations on July 18, 2009 (boomark / email).