What's even more odd is the black community identifying

There are many in the black community who don't consider OTHER people of mixed white-black races to be black - meaning, truly black. (Remember George Jefferson?  Hated Jenny, his son's girlfriend, because she was a "zebra", as he called her.  He also directed most of his disdain toward her MOTHER, regarding her as a traitor to her race for marrying a white man.  Like Archie Bunker, George wasn't an oddity, and that's why we all recognized them.  They were both social archetypes whose roles were created to make a statement about common racial attitudes on both sides of the line.) 

But the same people who don't believe OTHER mixed-race people are "truly black" have made an exception for Obama, which is bizarre when you think about it unless you take the foibles of the human mind into account.  We see what we want to see, and we think what's convenient to think. 

This isn't a black problem or a white problem - it's a human problem that has caused enormous mischief in a society that has, as its basic premise, the idea that we should be governed by citizens who can think properly and who will make wise decisions accordingly.

Mischief like this:  Segregated schools.  White people whom you would not have believed to be unsympathetic toward black people actually convinced themselves that black students would be "happier" if they had their own schools. We see what we want to see, and we think what's convenient to think.

In 2008, it was deplorable but understandable.  In 2012, it doesn't make sense as more and more blacks are on the unemployment rolls and sinking into poverty.  Yet, in November, many people will vote for Obama for the main reason that he's "black".   I can say this because it's freely admitted - not merely a matter of opinion.   We see what we want to see, and we think what's convenient to think.

And if there is any human failing that will ultimately bring an end to the American Experiment in self-governance, it will be this:  That we saw what we wanted to see, and we thought what was convenient to think.