Anatomy of a Black Mind: How Black is Black Enough?

I was deeply troubled recently by Jesse Jackson's Fox News comments on Barack Obama.

Some of our Black leaders would rather see an incompetent, warmongering, criminal white President in power who cares nothing except how to enrich his already rich friends (e.g., Bush, McCain, etc) than to support a progressive brother who is both Black and White, but chooses to identify himself as Black, taking on our struggles voluntarily. When Pres. Clinton was elected, Blacks across the country voted over 80% for him, and Black "fans" called him "The First Black President" without EVER questioning his "Blackness". Now that we have someone who could legitimately make the government "by the people, for the people" a reality for the first time since FDR, it seems we can't go a week or two without some Black figure wondering publicly whether Obama is "Black Enough."

Apparently unless you agree with the world view of EVERYONE who is a major Black figure, you can't expect their support. ...Not realizing that to a Eurocentric culture, we're ALL the same (Black Americans, non-American Blacks, Indians, Caribbean people, Hispanic/Latinos, Arabs, etc.) If Blacks stuck together, we could be THE most powerful voting bloc in American politics, far surpassing Latinos, Jews and other voting blocs who tend more often to vote for those that represent their views.

Yes, these things are symptoms of hundreds of years of the Willie Lynch Theory being propagated throughout American society. However, with education and knowledge/self-awareness at our fingertips, we have no one to blame but ourselves if we don't get IT right!