“....I am beginning to get tired of hearing that President Obama is black. With apologies to King Lear, blackness is apparently all. Every radio bulletin and TV report laboriously emphasised his blackness above all else. Historic? Certainly. Overkill? Undoubtedly.
The media's fascination with his quasi-messianic negritude is on one level emotionally understandable - but it also mawkish and intellectually facile. To drone on ad nauseam about his blackness is reductionist, offensive even, telling us far more about the media's perceptions of black people than about Mr Obama himself.”