Gregory Kane: "A Black President Is Nice, Not Necessary"

"But I’ll stick to my position: black folks need more doctors, engineers, mathematicians and scientists. We don’t need a black president. He’s nice to have; we just don’t need the guy. Now, before some readers – you know who you are – go off on one of your 'there goes Kane being an Uncle Tom again' rants, let me point out that I have some interesting company. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been saying the same thing for decades. Of course, we never listen to him when he says it. If he’s dissing Jews, we’re all ears. If he’s talking about Uncle Toms or evil white folks, we can’t get enough of it. If he’s running down that Willie Lynch nonsense, we sit in rapt attention, clinging to every false, misleading word. But let him say that more black folks need to focus on math and science, and we tune him out faster than Tiger Woods rushing to date the nearest white woman. Math? Science? Engineering? Aren’t those things for white folks and Asians? Hrabowski and a superb group of black students at UMBC are proving those things most certainly are not."