Dan Riehl, arbiter of Blackitude:

Unfortunately For Obama, He "Triked" Out

ObamatrikeYes, Jeremiah Wright probably does present a path to victory over Obama in the Fall. But maybe not why some think. I’d suggest it isn’t because Obama is black. It’s because, by half, he isn’t and never has been black enough.

It’s worth noting some pertinent background and history in the wake of Obama’s recent speech on race. For example, that image of Obama on a tricycle at right: not quite the stuff of a disadvantaged black youth, now is it?

There are probably millions of white individuals Obama’s age who can’t claim to have had as refined a look, or as nice a "trike" as Obama when young. So, what exactly is this "authenticity" we here so much about?

It’s suggested he tossed his Grandmother under the bus, citing her previous racial remarks. Has anyone stopped to think that she was mostly catching buses in Kansas, and then Hawaii in her time with Obama? She may, or may not have made some racial comments that had nothing to do with what we would consider black men at all.

Point being, when Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s church, he wasn’t even close to being entitled to the angry young black man mantra Wright has professed for the last twenty or so years.

Try as I might, I’m not sure I get what Dan’s point is (possibly because it is in some sort of whitebonics with all the slang and words spelled funny) but I think that he is saying that Obama can only be black if he looked like this in his childhood.

Obama family. Barry fourth from left. In Dan’s mind.

Even then Dan would probably point out that he’s never been on a cruise and that the Obama family probably got to go on it for free because they’re black.

Life is so not fair.