■   “Which brings me to the main reason I delayed writing about Obama. For me, it was a trick question in a game I refused to play. Since the issue was always framed as a battle between gender and race (read: non-whiteness — the question is moot when all the players are white), I didn’t have the heart (or the stomach) to point out the obvious: Obama isn’t black.” I’ve seen several articles with similar themes in recent days. They bring to mind a story I did while a student a Columbia on the relationship between black Americans and African immigrants … a story that, in part, had (white guy) me walking around Queens asking black people if they were from Africa … .  [#]