Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilemma

“Barack is caught between two worlds and struggles for acceptance by either side–Black enough? White enough? It’s a fine line that he must walk,” writes Illinois state Senator Rickey Hendon, in Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilemma, a personal memoir of the historic 2008 presidential election. Hendon, an African American senator from Chicago’s blighted West Side, was a veteran politico firmly aligned with other Black leaders when the man who would go on to become the golden pres…