Originally Posted by sidney

This is the problem with us. We are forever deciding who is black enough...

I went to Kindergarden, first to third grade in a small town in Massachusetts. I was the first black kid in my school. I remember fighting EVERYday... I am not exaggeratting. I mean EVERYday in the first grade. I was called nigger to my face by parents. My mother had to bring some representatives from the Nation of Islam and Black Panther party, in NY, to stem some of the issues my brother and I were having. This was normal for that time (as I have said before, I don old small...)...

This is the type of racism that Barack always recieved. How black he is, was never in question when police would pull over his car when he was in high school. Or the institutionalized racism that overtly existed at that time.

It is deeply insultive, amongst other things, to constantly question someone's blackness because they don't wear a kinte koffi. Especially to those that grew up in that time. When being called a nigger was not only politically correct, but commonplace.

Black America.... Crabs in a barrell...

When the white man hates us, it's because we are black, when he likes us, it's because we are not black enough...

It is well...