Link: Obama tiptoes through nation's racial minefield | Chicago Tribune.
Nevertheless, the question of whether Barack Obama is "black enough" to win the Democratic presidential nomination never seems to go away. It has only been joined by the rival question of whether he might be "too black." Of all the constituencies to whom Obama must reach out, his fellow black Americans -- like me -- pose a special challenge. We expect him to connect with us in a way that shows he, as candidate Bill Clinton used to say in 1992, feels our pain. At the same time, we know he has to reach out to white voters and others for whom race as an issue falls way behind Iraq, terrorism, jobs, schools, immigration or countless others that I could name
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