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# The London - and Obama - effect: back to being black
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-obama-effect-back-to-being-black/
- Published: 2008-02-28T14:02:29.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:58:05.000Z
- Author: KA Dilday
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:46

I'M black again. I was black in Mississippi in the 1970s but sometime  
in the 1980s I became African-American, with a brief pause at  
Afro-American. Someone, I think it was Jesse Jackson, in the days when  
he had that kind of clout, managed to convince America that I preferred  
being African-American. I don't.

[Read on](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/opinion/27dilday.html?ref=opinion) \----