Analysis: President Obama Asserts His Blackness

By: Michael H. Cottman

Was President Barack Obama out of line when he told Americans that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts “acted stupidly” in the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates?

"I could've calibrated those words differently," Obama acknowledged at a surprise appearance before the White House press corps Friday afternoon.

Despite the president's back peddling on his choice of words, black America nonetheless witnessed a profound moment seven months into his term: Obama asserting his blackness from the White House bully pulpit while discussing the arrest of a fellow black man - a friend - by a white police officer.

Analysis: President Obama Asserts His Blackness....