Color Commentary Story aired: Tuesday, February 06, 2007
We spend some time today on a provocative question of race in American politics. It's been burbling along in parts of the black community and it bubbled up like a rude burp when Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden called Barak Obama, the first mainstream African American candidate who was "articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."
Writer Deborah Nickerson says in a recent essay in Salon that many African Americans feel the Barak Obama isn't black. We speak with Dickerson, who worked on the first Clinton presidential campaign and has written the book "The End of Blackness."
