Some of us Will Never be Black Enough.

Russell Wilson, quarterback of Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks , is the latest African American to be accused of not being black enough. Some of his teammates have even called him an “Uncle Tom” in the locker room. Yet, here is the great-great grandson of a slave, a guy whose grandfather is a former president of Norfolk State University, a historically Black College and both of his parents are African-American. Now, how black can a guy like this be?

The question then is who really are black enough? Are they those who Bill Cosby describes as absent fathers, women having kids for six different men and “babies” having babies, the young thugs with pants sagging irresponsibly and the young women whose bodies are covered with tattoos and piercings?

Charles Barkley, once voted the NBA’s Most Valuable Player and named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History stated only recently that: “For some reason, we are brainwashed to think that if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligently and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”

I guess some of us will never be black enough!