Obama is a man who has not only moved well beyond anything that affirmative action could do for him, but well beyond anything that almost anyone in the USA could achieve - being a party nominee for president of the most powerful nation in the world.
It comes as no surprise, then, that the race-mongers like Jesse Jackson and the NAACP view Obama's candidacy with ambivalence. They see everything through the filter of "race first," so they love that Obama is black (or at least half so); on the other hand, they despise him for not playing the victim using the "race card."
The civil righteous (meaning those who exploit real rights issues for their own purposes) should correctly see this as a threat to their tyranny over minorities, as those like Obama tout American values such as personal responsibility, hard work and achievement, over feeling victimized.
And good for Obama. Let's just hope he doesn't change his mind about that, too.
Behind Jackson's outburst -- baltimoresun.com:
"'There is a lot of debate within the civil rights community about Obama,' said J. Whyatt Mondesire, a member of the NAACP board from Philadelphia. 'A lot of the old war horses like Jesse and I have had serious questions about his orientation to race, given his words about transcending race. Saying that he didn't believe there was a systematic racial problem in this country - that goes to a very core of the way we see racial issues in this country.'"
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