Look at all the self-hating white people who pass for black, or try to by dint of constant noise-making. Look at Eric Holder. Every day he's more sneering at Whitey, because he seems paler by the week. Colin Powell--first black Sec of State? No, that was Condi Rice.
Ben Jealous is the funniest because he is the whitest and the most jealous of black people
It's all the reverse of that old melodrama with Clark Gable and Yvonne DeCarlo, "Band of Angels." Where she was passing for black, now we have all these people passing for black to try to cash in on the race hustle.
The whole story of the Trail of Tears doesn't tell an interesting part--that many of those displaced by force from their land looked as white as Yvonne deCarlo. They owned farms and slaves in the Blue Ridge and Smokies. But land-grabbers found a pretext and managed to corrupt Jackson. So a lot of those along the Trail of Tears were simply white people who failed to "pass."
Just how much cream can be in that coffee before it's cream instead of coffee?
Correction: in the old movie, Yvonne deCarlo’s character was unintentionally passing for white until her white father died and she became subject to the the slave laws of antebellum Lousiiana.
It was the discovery of gold on Cherokee lands which led to the removal of the tribe. This was one of the most disgraceful acts in US history where a president told the highest legal authority to stuff it. Jackson was a great general but a miserable person so his illegalities are no surprise.
People who visited Arkansas in the formative stages of the state often commented that the Cherokee who had relocated there were more civilized than the whites. As one born and raised in the state I can report this without censure. And there is some Cherokee blood in my veins so have some sympathy there.