Michelle Obama's ambivalence about America, and what it portends by Lawrence Auster

From a CNN story:

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)--Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, Friday called questions early in the campaign about whether her biracial husband was "black enough" to appeal to African-American voters "silly."

"It's silliness and it's about part of the silliness of our culture," she said.

Now that's a sentiment that would probably seem unobjectionable to most of us. The general American culture has no stake in black people's obssession about whether individual blacks are "black" enough. Anyone who considers himself black, regardless of how black his ancestry or how "black" his personality, is black, period. And Obama in particular is a black man who is not (or so we're told) presenting himself or running for President as a black man, and he should not be made to give an account to anyone about his blackness.

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