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“Twice As Good, Half As Black”

Aug 24 2012 @ 2:15pm

VIDEO .. yours is a top read, at least a couple of onion skins down ..

Ta-Nehisi's deeply thoughtful article on Obama and race deserves your time. An excerpt:

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The election of an African American to our highest political office was alleged to demonstrate a triumph of integration. But when President Obama addressed the tragedy of Trayvon Martin, he demonstrated integration’s great limitation—that acceptance depends not just on being twice as good but on being half as black. And even then, full acceptance is still withheld. The larger effects of this withholding constrict Obama’s presidential potential in areas affected tangentially—or seemingly not at all—by race. Meanwhile, across the country, the community in which Obama is rooted sees this fraudulent equality, and quietly seethes.
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More reflections on this soon. I'm still absorbing it.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/08/24/reflecting-on-the-first-black-president/