The First Black President?

Campus Report ^ | February 21, 2008 | Emmanuel Opati

[ozzymandus]

What about black people in Canada??

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Afrinooks?

[ozzymandus]

Frostycans?

[sport]

I still believe that at the ight time the Clinton slimew machine will knock Obama off.

Hillary has planned and schemed,[I had better let it go with that] for too long to be President to go out this easy.

I believe that the November ballot for President will read John Mc Cain, Republican and Hillary Roddam Clinton, Democrat.

[zipper]

Have you ever been to Egypt? There are lots of arabs that look very similar to Obama, that are not negroes.

[evets]

[LWalk18]

Have you ever been to Egypt? There are lots of arabs that look very similar to Obama, that are not negroes.

I am not talking about Obama, who is half white, but his father, who looks very black based on every picture I have seen. That blog's contention is that Obama has only 1/16 Sub-Saharan black or Negroid DNA, thus his father has 1/8 Sub-Saharan black DNA with the remainder being "Arab" or Caucazoid. Having seen his picture, I really doubt that his the case.

[zipper]

I have seen that picture, and it does look like he is a black African. But having traveled around Africa, including Egypt, I am not going to conclude that his father was majority Negro.

The picture I think we are both referring to is here, just below Obama's picture:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=431908&in_page_id=1770

That said, it would be nice if the blogger would make his research available, instead of just citing it:

Need proof? Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as "Arab African" by the Kenyan government.

As Mr. Lamb says, if Obama is not Negro, and is actually minority Arab-African, and his ancestors were Arab slave traders, then his whole persona is called into question, and his identity with Blacks will be seen as a cynical ploy, with his identity as composite as the characters in his books.

[Americanexpat]

I do not mind a blackman or woman as president. But I do not want a black president I want an American president.

[bs9021]

My view exactly! Check out Obama’s “people” section at http://www.barackobama.com/index.php#

He lists

- Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
- African Americans
- Americans Abroad
- Environmentalists
- First Americans
- Generation Obama
- Kids
- Labor
- Latinos
- LGBT
- People of Faith
- Students
- Veterans
- Women

Wouldn’t this be better termed, “special interests”?