Just in Case You Thought Otherwise...
Fascinating take on what the author calls Elite Blacks; that is, African-Americans who have attended Ivy League Schools, have attained positions of power and responsibility, and live in tony suburbs. You know, the people who decide who is 'authentically black' -- while looking down their noses -- but who would be called 'Uncle Tom' (and worse...) is they ever entered a real ghetto?

Anyways, here it is:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/zdwightbillingsly/story/0F65A2211E2B470A862574EA007A0D75?OpenDocument

I say this: both your President-Elect, and his loudmouth wife, fall into this category.

As an interesting aside, yesterday at President-Elect Obama's Press conference he was surrounded by his flock of economic/financial advisers who will, supposedly, give him excellent advice on how to correct the nation's troubled economy. I noticed that not one of them was African-American, and when I read this article, I could see why.