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President Obama: Black and more so
LA Times ^ | 3 Apr 2011 | Gregory Rodriguez

Posted on 04/03/2011 6:26:13 PM PDT by mandaladon

By checking 'black' as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic teaching moment. Instead, President Obama, the most famous mixed-race person in the world, checked off only one race — black — last year on his census form. And in so doing, he missed an opportunity to articulate a more nuanced racial vision for the increasingly diverse country he heads.

The president also bucked a trend. Last month, the Census Bureau announced that the number of Americans who identified themselves as being of more than one race in 2010 grew about 32% over the last decade. The number of people who identified as both white and black jumped an astounding 134%. And nearly 50% more children were identified as multiracial on this census, making that category the fastest-growing youth demographic in the country.

To be sure, the number of people — 9 million, or 2.9% of the population — who identified themselves as of more than one race on their census form is still small. But the trend is clear.

It has been only since 2000 that the federal government allowed Americans to identify themselves as of more than one race, and the change was one more step away from the sordid days when racial mixing was frowned on and even criminalized in much of the country. The increase in the number of Americans who now identify as racially mixed suggests not only an increase in absolute numbers, but also that people are growing more comfortable with the idea of racial mixing.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ashamed; biracial; blacks; census; obama; racism; typicalwhitewoman
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'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' ...This tells us a lot about his feelings towards his White side.
1 posted on 04/03/2011 6:26:15 PM PDT by mandaladon
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'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' Barack Obama
2 posted on 04/03/2011 6:29:44 PM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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To: mandaladon

Votes. That is all it was about.....


3 posted on 04/03/2011 6:30:44 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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To: mandaladon

Children rarely come up with racial hatreds on their own. They almost always have to be taught.


4 posted on 04/03/2011 6:30:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: mandaladon

Given his mother’s politics— not to mention her choice of sexual partners— I daresay that white (self-)loathing was fully ingrained in little Barry long before he filled out any census.


5 posted on 04/03/2011 6:31:06 PM PDT by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’ ...This tells us a lot about his feelings towards his White side.’

Well, she WAS a typical white woman....


6 posted on 04/03/2011 6:32:30 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)
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too bad POS wasn’t an option -


7 posted on 04/03/2011 6:33:08 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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Since when has the Kenyan Con Man ever thought the rules applied to him?

He's NOT the first black president, Bill Clinton was. Obama-lama-ding-dong is the first MULATTO president.
8 posted on 04/03/2011 6:33:48 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: mandaladon
The number of people who identified as both white and black jumped an astounding 134%. And nearly 50% more children were identified as multiracial on this census, making that category the fastest-growing youth demographic in the country.

Yeah, I'd be curious to know how many people checked the "multi-racial" box in order to take advantage of some set asides or get a leg up on a job application or something along those lines. There have been times that I've been tempted in this rotten 0bama job market to check "White Hispanic" on a job app, and then let them prove that I'm not at least on my mother's side.

9 posted on 04/03/2011 6:35:24 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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He's half black.. half white.. that's not the issue.

It's all about his half-ass politics.

10 posted on 04/03/2011 6:37:20 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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98% of the black vote went for the black King Obama. Guess he is really black.
11 posted on 04/03/2011 6:38:20 PM PDT by Logical me
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"Obama made the politically correct choice," San Francisco State University political scientist Robert C. Smith told me last week. "If he had come to Chicago calling himself multiracial, he would have had no political career. And I think if he called himself multiracial now, black people would see it as a betrayal."...Just political convenience for Barry
12 posted on 04/03/2011 6:39:18 PM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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He is clearly only “proud” of his black side. Plus Moochelle would beat him up if he picked white.


13 posted on 04/03/2011 6:39:41 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mandaladon
There is some question as to whether he actually wrote that ....
14 posted on 04/03/2011 6:41:53 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: mandaladon

As far as i can tell, the sole purpose of this article was to make the reader dumber.


15 posted on 04/03/2011 6:42:59 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: mandaladon

The bigger story here is that he has finally released a government record on himself.


16 posted on 04/03/2011 6:46:39 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in.)
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To: NWFLConservative
the first MULATTO president.

"Mulatto" is half-Caucasian, half-Negro.

Looking at The Won's genetic background, he's a lot closer to half-Caucasian, half-Arab.

17 posted on 04/03/2011 6:46:58 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: NWFLConservative

P.S. - That’s probably what his birth certificate says, and that’s why he won’t release it.


18 posted on 04/03/2011 6:48:08 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mandaladon

A jump in biracial responses could also be becuse this year’s cencus was far more invasive.

As far as I can see, the Constitution justifies a census for representation reasons. But the census is a tool to determine what areas are more special than others, which ones need more of my money and so on.

There are lots of white Mexicans. So I am atleast half Hispanic. That single hispanic with no kids and 6 figure income must have skewed their curve a little.


19 posted on 04/03/2011 6:51:22 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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A jump in biracial responses could also be becuse this year’s cencus was far more invasive.

As far as I can see, the Constitution justifies a census for representation reasons. But the census is a tool to determine what areas are more special than others, which ones need more of my money and so on.

There are lots of white Mexicans. So I am atleast half Hispanic. That single hispanic with no kids and 6 figure income must have skewed their curve a little.


20 posted on 04/03/2011 6:51:25 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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