Shelby Steele on Obama's Accent

Shelby Steele is their 'boy', making sure to keep any attempt at social progress well undermined. It is far from surprising that they would choose the most vehement, ferverish, mixed-race person to derail this Black president 'crazy talk.' "Look at how Obama brushes his teeth in the morning!" might be next. It's amazing how, like countless others, Mr. Steele seems to believe he gets a 'white man pass' for negating someone who has more in common with him. But I've been told about scared negroes before who hide behind veils of pseudo-scholarly, pseudo-objective and pseudo-sociological 'analysis' to quell their bosses' fears. Don't worry, Mr. Steele - we won't call your name out while this new generation tries to fix up the mess of the past. Massa'll still love you.

I can understand your anger - you support the mainstream press' view that this kind of support for a Black candidate is nothing more than style-over-substance cult campaigning (how could a Black candidate be more successful utilizing the same methods as his white counterparts if not so, right? Especially with Michelle out-Hillarying Hillary.) In being a politician for change, Sen. Obama has to play on this chessboard, and he is doing so with more success, and none of the cynical hypocrisy of his opponents.

But, Mr. Steele, at least have the forthrightness to acknowledge that your priviledge to stick up for your and white America's disdain for Sen. Obama is the result of you playing the game too - albeit for goals to keep 'the good ol' days' exactly the same. I hope your children will have a greater appreciation and scope of vision, and maybe Dr. King and Malcolm X's visions wouldn't seem as incongruent.

There's more than one way to assassinate a leader. Congratulations, Mr. Steele, on crafting your method. Just make sure to concurrently design your own armor, because, whether you believe it or not, you'll always be half-Black in a land in which that has carried a death sentence. No amount of holier-than-thou, frightened and dismissive pundit-pounding will ever change that.

Good point Mr. Steele. I guess Obama can have any type of accent he desires (i.e. Southern, New England, East Indian, English, etc.), since the country has more important issues to tackle.

However, it is okay if he or any other White, Oriental, or Black person speaks proper English.

Language has nothing to do with skin color. If I moved to Germany I would try to learn the German language as it is spoken there.

An accent is simply vowels pronounced incorrectly
in the particular language being spoken.