the black guy stumbles

If anybody is following the Democratic nomination process, last week has been a hoot. Since the start of his campaign, the black guy hasn't stood for anything except being black and now a black preacher is threatening to derail him. The Americans may be ready for a black president or they may not be. One thing is for sure though, they aren't ready for one that is radically black. As long as he is just a light cafe colour he just may be palatable to a large enough segment of the public. He's very carefully trod the line so that the black constituency will vote for his skin colour and the white constituency won't feel that he is too black. But now here comes a strident BLACK preacher saying all the things that the black guy has carefully avoided saying and forcing the black guy to actually take a stand. What's informative is that he has moved away from his blackness by trying to distance himself from the famous preacher.

The media keeps painting this as a religious issue but it has very little to do with religion. It has everything to do with race and forcing the black guy to state who he really is and what he is really about. That's what the preacher is asking - "Who are you & what do you stand for?" That's what the Democrats should have been asking all along.

The Republicans meanwhile are staying carefully away from the fray and Billary is loving it, silently. She has tried to ask the question but a white person can't ask those hard questions of a black.