etee's Blog

No, this isn't about Michael Jackson.

There are reports that Presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill) is not Black, after all. According to this statement from eyewitness ashley Morris,

Did you see Thursday’s Colbert Report? Stephen was interviewing Debra Dickerson, who says that Obama is not “black”.

We must remember, of course, that whether or not Sen. Obama is black was rendered a moot point long before he entered the national political scene, when Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morisson declared Bill Clinton to be the nation's first Black President, for which he was honored at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Awards Dinner back in 2001.