Blackness Defined

Recently Governor Rod Blagojevich ruffled some feathers and basically proved he's an ass by claiming he should be considered "blacker' than President Obama because he grew up poor and once shined shoes to make money. Since Obama's election there have been a number of similarly foolish and controversial remarks, such as Harry Reid's "negro dialect" commentary when noting that the absence of one (except when convenient to turn it on) plus having light rather than dark brown skin made Obama...