State Rep. Doesn't Consider Sheriff Clarke Black

Here we go again.  Another Black Politician who disagrees with another Black Politician so he must not be black enough?

JSOnline:

Clarke is the best known African-American elected to countywide office.
But one local lawmaker won't even concede that.

In a forum held earlier this week, state Rep. Mandela Barnes refused to acknowledge that the controversial sheriff shares the same race as the black legislator.

"We have one black countywide elected official . . . and I don't even accept him as black," said Barnes, a Milwaukee Democrat, prompting "oohs" from the crowd at the forum hosted by The Capital Times at the High Noon Saloon in Madison.

"All right -- are you tweeting this?" Journal Sentinel columnist Christian Schneider, another panelist, asked a Cap Times staffer, according to audio of the event (the exchange begins at 43 minutes).
"You can tweet -- you all have my permission to tweet that," Barnes said.