equal parts of white and black mixed usually look gray...
Posted on 07/08/2008 4:59:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Sen. Barack Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. So why is he "black"?
He is, to be accurate, biracial, equally black and white. Mr. Obama could choose to identify himself in a way similar to golfer Tiger Woods, who describes himself as "Cablinasian" — a mix of his Caucasian, black and American Indian father and his Asian mother (although "Kensan" or "Kanyan" don't have the same ring).
Or Mr. Obama could label himself with obvious legitimacy as white - he was, after all, raised by his white mother and white grandparents after his father abandoned the family when he was 2 years old.
Yet he describes himself as black, and news organizations around the world have followed suit.
The Associated Press said June 3, when the Democratic candidate secured enough delegates to win the nomination, that the biracial senator is "the first African-American to lead a major party ticket" as he seeks to become "the nation's first black president."
But a debate over the topic of race has been raging since he entered the presidential race a year ago. Throughout the primary campaign, political pundits have addressed the question of whether Mr. Obama is "black enough." (A Google search of the candidate's name and the phrase pulls down 152,000 hits.)
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Ferraro was absolutely right. This empty suit, with 143 days of experience in the Senate before deciding he was ready to be President, would never have been taken seriously if he were white.
“American” would be nice. Of course, that would decidedly exclude the “dreams of my father” (which decidedly excluded the existence of the son).
The same people who decided to call Tiger Woods black, despite the fact that he's 1/2 East Asian, 1/4 black, 1/8 American Indian, and 1/8 (white) Dutch.
Many American blacks consider anyone with even a small fraction of black ancestry black. ...except for those they don't like.
Changing the sheets and pillowcases is always a confusing time of day.
It's rare to find a person who isn't mixed in some way.
Half French/half American Iroquois thus... American mutt...
Obama himself decided to be called "black" by becoming obsessed over perceived racial slights or made up inequities.
If Obama had chosen to correct all writers right from the start, he would now be referred as the biracial candidate.
As it is, he believes he can gain more political ground by identifying with and joining up with the opressed slave mentality.
equal parts of white and black mixed usually look gray...
How’s that post racial thing working out.
Because he is black. If his skin was "white" (Caucasian color), and if he still called himself black, you could legitimately ask your question. But suppose Obama, with his black skin, called himself white. Imagine how much flak he'd receive from blacks for dissing his black genes. What's the guy to do?
EXACTLY!!
It’s screwy out there. Reminds me a colleague who got an interview mainly because he was “African born”-—that’s what it said on his application and it was true—he was born in Morocco — but he was as white as the driven snow.
Another case was an applicant who had a very “latino” sounding name..we were advised strongly to hire her...even though she was born in Spain!
Because the leftists use the same system as Hitler. Black genes are considered to fully contaminate the person. So just as Hitler saw a person with one Jewish grandparent as Jewish, Democrats see a person with one black grandparent as 100% black.
The first court case of a white skinned person claiming minority status based on one officially black grandparent should be interesting.
As a black, he gets 92% of the black vote.
I agree. Actor John Wayne had this to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuzLTrwVbc
Obama is not black, he is brown, as most American "blacks" are. I've worked with black sub-saharan Africans, and they are jet black. A black you just don't see in America.
My daughter has apparently got a bit of coloring from a great grandmother who was Cherokee. She is darker in complexion than one of her friends who's father is Puerto Rican. Guess which one will be considered a minority.
As justice Roberts said, if we desire that people stop being discriminated against by race, we should stop discriminating by race.
If Obama had chosen to correct all writers right from the start, he would now be referred as the biracial candidate.
As it is, he believes he can gain more political ground by identifying with and joining up with the opressed slave mentality.
I'm confused. Is Obama black or isn't he? Maybe he's black on Monday Wednesday and Friday and not Tuesday and Thursday. Maybe he shifts depending on the way the political winds blow.
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