red states rule
08-11-2007, 04:39 AM
Who was making his race an issue?
If anyone was syaing Obama was not black enough - it had to be other liberals. From the party that claims not to be racist
Obama confronts 'blackness' as issue
By Brian DeBose
August 11, 2007
LAS VEGAS — Sen. Barack Obama used a speech to black journalists yesterday to try to put to rest criticism that he is "not black enough."
The Illinois Democrat and fundraising leader in the race for his party's presidential nomination said his appearance is black and that his work as a civil rights lawyer, a community organizer in Chicago and a state senator make him much stronger on black issues than any other candidate.
Mr. Obama opened his remarks to the National Association of Black Journalists with a joke that he was intentionally a "little late" to prove his "blackness," in keeping with an age-old stereotype that blacks are not concerned with being punctual.
During a question-and-answer session, Mr. Obama turned the tables on the journalists, asking them why they continue to pepper him with questions about his "blackness."
"This is a troubling question, for it to be perpetrated though our [black] press, and we should ask ourselves why that is," he told a capacity crowd of nearly 1,500 at the group's 32nd annual convention.
Mr. Obama went on to say that blacks don't want to get too excited about his prospects of winning the presidency because they don't want to be disappointed if he loses.
"And my attitude is let's try it," he said. "Why defeat ourselves ahead of time and why say we can't do something before we even attempt to do it?"
Mr. Obama's chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, attended the event Thursday and was asked whether she could relate to and represent the issues important to blacks better than a black man.
for the complete article
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070811/NATION/108110044/1001/NATION
If anyone was syaing Obama was not black enough - it had to be other liberals. From the party that claims not to be racist
Obama confronts 'blackness' as issue
By Brian DeBose
August 11, 2007
LAS VEGAS — Sen. Barack Obama used a speech to black journalists yesterday to try to put to rest criticism that he is "not black enough."
The Illinois Democrat and fundraising leader in the race for his party's presidential nomination said his appearance is black and that his work as a civil rights lawyer, a community organizer in Chicago and a state senator make him much stronger on black issues than any other candidate.
Mr. Obama opened his remarks to the National Association of Black Journalists with a joke that he was intentionally a "little late" to prove his "blackness," in keeping with an age-old stereotype that blacks are not concerned with being punctual.
During a question-and-answer session, Mr. Obama turned the tables on the journalists, asking them why they continue to pepper him with questions about his "blackness."
"This is a troubling question, for it to be perpetrated though our [black] press, and we should ask ourselves why that is," he told a capacity crowd of nearly 1,500 at the group's 32nd annual convention.
Mr. Obama went on to say that blacks don't want to get too excited about his prospects of winning the presidency because they don't want to be disappointed if he loses.
"And my attitude is let's try it," he said. "Why defeat ourselves ahead of time and why say we can't do something before we even attempt to do it?"
Mr. Obama's chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, attended the event Thursday and was asked whether she could relate to and represent the issues important to blacks better than a black man.
for the complete article
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070811/NATION/108110044/1001/NATION