(August 7, 2007) New York, NY-Award-winning journalist and CNN contributor, Roland S. Martin, will launch his new blog on essence.com today with the notorious question, “Is Obama Black Enough?” Martin will post to the site, the online home of ESSENCE, the preeminent lifestyle magazine for African-American women, twice daily and will cover a myriad of issues including politics, race, religion, relationships, parenting, and more.
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Now Roland Martin, former editor of the Chicago Defender, has joined the fray.
And then 1960! What a proud time to be an American! “Americans didn’t elect John F. Kennedy president because he was just a little bit Catholic,” the candidate will say. “Any more than Americans elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he was just a little bit crippled.
This message will resonate especially well among southern white voters who used to be Democrats but have migrated in recent years to the party of Lincoln. It will also find favor among northern black nationalists. These two blocs could form the basis of a grassroots coalition that will make this candidacy the talk of Sunday morning television.
