I wish someone would please explain to me what ‘Black Enough’ means…
Lately I have heard this bandied about in regards to Barack Obama…
Our first Black presidential candidate in years…
I am so confused by this…
I guess it would make sense if it were because of his lineage…
Having a Caucasian mother, but it doesn’t seem to be that…
His grasp of the English language…
His ability to show a love for education…
Family values…
Seems to be the things that make the brother…
Not ‘Black Enough’…
I hope to hell not…
Because those kinds of things…
Transcend color…
Or they should…
I can remember being a little Negro girl…growing up in…
Ocala, Florida…
I loved to read…write and could talk my butt off…and talk well…
I had been educated by family members and teachers…
Who taught me to speak properly…
Lord, the mess I heard…
“Stuck Up”
“Acting White”
“Proper Talking”…
Even as a child I didn’t listen to that mess…
I saw my penny brown face…in the mirror…
Looked around my hood and saw nothing but black faces…
I was as Black as anyone else…
Please…
Somebody better hurry up and tell me what ‘Black Enough’ is…
Otherwise, leave it alone…
Black is and should be as diverse as anything else…
Isn’t it and shouldn’t it be???
Angelia, acVernon Menchan
