This last week has brought a number of pundits questioning the "blackness" of at least two of our presidential candidates, on "black", the other white. That wonderful right wing pundit, Tucker Carlson, started the debate off. Mr. Carlson started off by saying that he felt uncomfortable discussing the blackness of others, nevertheless, he waded into said debate with a white female journalist and a white male journalist. There were no blacks there to defend their "blackness." You can watch that discussion here. The hit MSNBC TV, select Tucker and Obama's "blackness" questioned.
NPR's Michele Martin had a different take on the story, on which involved a forum of black journalists during the association's convention of the National Black Journalist Association, which also included questions and responses from the audience. I don't know about you, but I for one, do not want my blackness, or anyone else's defined by whites. For too long whites have defined who and what we are and this has to stop. Carlson defining what is and is not blackness is nothing more than code to the whites out there in wing nut land that hey, watch out because this man might be too black for you, no matter what he says. The question of blackness was also asked by Suzanne Malvo, wearer of Kabuki makeup(real pancake white makeup) so that you couldn't actually tell her race. (I only discovered she was black by studying her hair line.) Although Michel's discussion is an hour long it was well worth the hour, and can be found here. Malvo asked this question of former first lady Hillary Clinton, and there were just too many questions within that question to even chase after.
NPR's Michele Martin had a different take on the story, on which involved a forum of black journalists during the association's convention of the National Black Journalist Association, which also included questions and responses from the audience. I don't know about you, but I for one, do not want my blackness, or anyone else's defined by whites. For too long whites have defined who and what we are and this has to stop. Carlson defining what is and is not blackness is nothing more than code to the whites out there in wing nut land that hey, watch out because this man might be too black for you, no matter what he says. The question of blackness was also asked by Suzanne Malvo, wearer of Kabuki makeup(real pancake white makeup) so that you couldn't actually tell her race. (I only discovered she was black by studying her hair line.) Although Michel's discussion is an hour long it was well worth the hour, and can be found here. Malvo asked this question of former first lady Hillary Clinton, and there were just too many questions within that question to even chase after.
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