Caucasoid Like a Mug
If Jesse Jackson has already endorsed Barack Obama’s candidacy, then what is this stuff about Obama being too white? Is Jackson actually opening a window for Obama to defenestrate the old race-baiter to show we may know real racial transcendence? Hmmm. I doubt that they’re that clever —although that shouldn’t still the approving nods given to Obama’s eloquence and, if I may say, cleanliness.
But if it happens that Jackson did make such remarks with anything like an awareness of how crucial it is that Obama be the transcendent black man of destiny —a level which I absolutely do not believe he has yet achieved— then that speaks volumes more about the old lion in winter than anything I have seen in a very long while.
If audacity has bought Obama this experience, it will almost certainly serve him well in the long run. But he must grow up ideologically. He’s not even close to being ready yet for the Oval Office.
