The headline of a recent article by the Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten capsulizes, inadvertently, the supreme paradox of the Obama presidency.
“Obama struggles to balance African America’s hopes with country’s as a whole,” it says.
The story documents Obama’s struggles over the last four years, which continue today, to avoid overplaying his hand as the first black president, yet to also not ignore this fact.
But nowhere does Wallsten note the irony that four years ago many understood the meaning of Obama’s election as the beginning of the end of the perception of black America as a world apart from the...












I think most young kids are like that. But later on they pick up racial tensions from their parents and from politicians. I wish adults would stop insisting that young children grow up to fight the same battles the adults fought.
The Civil Rights struggle was a success. But for the older generation of black leaders like Ben Jealous of the NAACP, even in the 21st century, every day is still Bull Connor and the KKK, without end.