France’s respected daily, Liberation, has a very idiosyncratic article entitled, “Immaculate Blackness”. It begins (in translation) thus;

Barack Obama is going to win the next presidential election because he is not black.

Barack Obama isn’t black? No: and it is not because his mother is “as white as milk” in accordance with the “proper” description of the candidate. The reason that Barack Obama is not representative of black America is because his father is Kenyan.

This is true by the way. One does not say “black,” one says “African American.” And truly, black Americans are not “African” except through a long ago memory of their origin which passed from them by way of the original American sin of slavery.

To make sense of it, read the rest of the Liberation piece, translated into English, here on Watching America.com. Suffice to say, the French think Obama may hold a lesson for them.

Thought for the day: Bob Marley, a “black” cultural icon, wasn’t black, either. He was half-black, just like Obama. And one clue to our having achieved true racial equality is when we begin using that term.