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Obama Gets Elbowed in the Face, Isn't Black Enough
As if an actual elbow to the face wasn't enough...
In the wake of the pickup-game-elbowing President Obama received last week, Washington Post Metro columnist Courtland Milloy raises the question of whether President Obama suppresses his personality to please white America, a topic we haven't heard much about since the early days of Obama's presidency. (The definitive mainstream media discussion point on Obama's racialized perceptions, as far as I'm aware, was Nia-Malika Henderson's story in Politico in March 2009.)
Here's Milloy:
By most accounts, Obama acts like a black man behind closed doors. He talks trash while shooting hoops, talks Chicago South Side tough with his aides and conveys a range of emotions, including anger.
Once in public, though, he demurs - as if upholding some unspoken bargain with white America to never look like an angry black man in exchange for continued off-the-charts "likability" ratings and a shot at reelection in 2012.
It's bad enough that there are so few black men in public life who can be thought of as feared and respected - except for athletes such as, say, LeBron James. No black "Hammer" in the House, as Tom DeLay was called. No black arm-twisting Dick Cheney or in-your-face Rahm Eman•
Obama should no longer avoid the race issue
By Courtland Milloy
President Barack Obama has something important to say about race in America. You know he does because he has devoted much of his life to studying its significance. As a university professor, he spent more than a decade lecturing on race and racism. In Chicago, as a community organiser, he saw firsthand how poverty gets exacerbated by race and he knows the disparate toll that this problem takes on poor black children.
So why does the cat have his tongue?
Enough with people making excuses for his silence on race: He’ll just upset the “white man,” some say. Or he’s not the president of black America.
But there has never been a good reason why the nation’s first black president had to be so reticent about race — having uttered fewer words on the subject during his first two years in office than any Democratic president since 1961, according to a study by Daniel Gillion at the University of Pennsylvania.
If racism in this country is so bad that Obama dares not broach the subject, what effect does he think this backlash is having on everyday black people?
Does Obama know that he is being used by whites as proof that racism in America no longer exists? Forget racial discrimination in the workplace;