Please Mr. President, More "Jackass" Outbursts

To me, President Obama is in a similar situation Jackie Robinson was in when he broke the color line in Major League Baseball. Jackie was not the best player in the Negro Leagues, he had the temperament necessary to deal with the abuse he would receive. As the first black President of the United States, he is subjected to a great deal of abuse simply because of the color of his skin as was Mr Robinson when he broke the color line. I'm sure there were some who wanted Jackie to "stand up" for himself and fight back, however, had he done so, he would have been branded an "angry black man", banned from baseball and integration would have been further delayed. Similarly, there are those as evidenced by previous posts, want President Obama to "stop being Mr. Nice Guy", or "get black" - whatever that means, on the segment of the population that has issues with his skin color. What they fail to realize, is that doing so would cause him to be written off as an angry black man for the rest of his presidency and marginalized as such. It takes more strength of character and courage to respond as President Obama does than to react in anger. Personally, I think our current situation calls for careful and thoughtful deliberation rather than reflexive, knee-jerk, shoot from the hip cowboy antics.
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