John Blake's Screed About Why President Obama Can't Become the "Angry Black Man" Amounts to Racebaiting

CNN columnist John Blake's article on why President Obama cannot afford to become the "angry black man" amounts to racebaiting.

So, here we are, talking about how dangerous it is for President Barack Obama to be perceived as an angry black man, as though that was a sin before God. John Blake wrote an article, entitled Why Obama doesn't dare become the 'angry black man' and its link occupies a prime spot on the Drudge Report. White America is scared of the "angry black man" and President Obama dare not go down that slope. Can I ask, how do you describe an angry black man? Here's an excerpt from the article:

Who would have ever expected some white Americans to demand that an African-American man show more rage?

If you've followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you've heard the complaints that Obama isn't showing enough emotion. But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men. It's the lesson Obama absorbed from his upbringing, and from an impromptu remark he delivered last summer. Yet it's a lesson he may now have to jettison, they say, as public outrage spreads.

"Folks are waiting for a Samuel Jackson 'Snakes on the Plane' moment from this president as in: 'We gotta' get this $#@!!* oil back in the $#!!* rig!' But that's just not who Obama is,'' says Saladin Ambar, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Some of the same people crying for Obama to show more emotion would have voted against him if he had displayed anger during his presidential run, says William Jelani Cobb, author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress."

I would have expected a lot better from CNN instead of racebaiting and trying to perpetuate negative stereotypes about the so-called angry black man. I could include some stereotypes about other races, but that would be counterproductive and not in my nature, as I embrace the goodness in all races and my friendships embodies this belief. How did we get to this place, where race has occupied much of the analysis of President Obama's mannerisms and his reaction to the apocalypse playing out in the BP oilspill in the Gulf?

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