By: Deborah Mathis, BlackAmericaWeb.com
For Barack Obama, or anyone else, to be asked to explain black American culture is not unlike being asked that old empiricist question, “What is the meaning of life?”
The answer requires another question: How much time do you have?
In at least two instances, Obama has been faced with this dilemma -- first, three months ago, after his wife, Michelle, told a Milwaukee audience that “for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country;” and now, in the relentless hoopla over his former pastor’s sermonic thunderclaps.
His attempts to elaborate about the how’s and why’s have only been frustrated by the media and public’s infamously short attention span and a craving for the short, sweet kernel that’s wrapped in a 10- to 20-second sound bite.
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