Not So Sir.

Yesterday I read an article on one of those multimedia websites that really got my goat! It seemed to me that like everything that is black and phenomenal someone attempted to make history more palatable as he pronounced Presidential Candidate Barack Obama multi-racial. I mean as a child I did not know that Egypt was in Africa, or that the missing nose on the Sphinx (also in Africa) could have shown clues to the Pharaoh’s African heritage. Egypt in the text books of my childhood had been successfully extricated from its place of rest on the “Dark Continent” and just seemed to be floating out there as an entity all on its own. Similarly, it has been said that when Napoleon saw this obviously Afrocentric nariz on the glorious structure that is the sphinx he had his troops remove it because it offended. Well did this blogwriter, in my opinion tried to take the black out of an African American…yes he did.

Mr. Obama has defined himself as an African American from always and has had experiences, allegiances and offspring that are black. True he has a multicultural identity but I ask you if he was still perhaps less vaingloriously the Senator from Illinois would he be anything else except an African American Senator? I think not. Now he is a Presidential candidate and it seems to me that in order to vote for a black man some folk have to go to any lengths to soothe their consciousness. Well whatever Mr Blogwriter sir, just as long as you exercise your right to universal adult suffrage on Election Day. Selah.