Black Intel

Reid is making a point that describes how if Obama’s skin tone was darker and his speech resembled a more Negro dialect that he wouldn’t be accepted as president because his perception as a darker skinned Black with a Negro dialect would vastly differ from that of what mainstream America is capable of tolerating. I think Reid is onto something RACE which is still a taboo topic for most Americans regardless of the tone of their skin red, white, yellow, brown and BLACK.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice…If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself,” a quote from author, orator and journalist, William Pickens.

Issues of colorism and visibility would no doubt be a larger part of the public discussion if that discourse paid more attention to the intersection of race and gender. As it is, the many ways colorism—along with racism and classism—affect women of color is obscured and marginalized. Yet the impacts are felt personally, professionally and politically.