Wow, Obama sure got his facial featuers and ears from his White Grandfather.
Posted on 03/29/2007 6:50:58 AM PDT by meg88
I you live in the USA you should know about the one drop rule in our country. The one-drop rule is an historical colloquial term in the United States that holds that a person with any trace of sub-Saharan ancestry (however small or invisible) cannot be considered white[1] and so unless the person has an alternative non-white ancestry that he or she can claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, Australian aboriginal, the person must be considered black.
This notion of invisible/intangible membership in a “racial” group has seldom been applied to people of Native American ancestry (see Race in the United States for details). The concept has been largely applied to those of black African ancestry.
Read One Drop - Bliss Broyard - New York Times
His Grandmother is elderly and ill. “I am not giving any interviews,” Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, curtly interjected when a reporter phoned. “I am in poor health.”
The one-drop rule,” which defines as black a person with as little as a single drop of “black blood.” This notion derives from a long discredited belief that each race had its own blood type, which was correlated with physical appearance and social behavior. The antebellum South promoted the rule as a way of enlarging the slave population with the children of slave holders. By the nineteen-twenties, in Jim Crow America the one- drop rule was well established as the law of the land. It still is, according to a United States Supreme Court decision as late as 1986, which refused to review a lower court’s ruling that a Louisiana woman whose great-great-great-great-grandmother had been the mistress of a French planter was black—even though that proportion of her ancestry amounted to no more than three thirty- seconds of her genetic heritage. “We are the only country in the world that applies the one-drop rule, and the only group that the one-drop rule applies to is people of African descent,”
I was making a somewhat joking remark. If you look at the date of my remark, you would notice that several contemporary articles were asking if Obama were black enough. I reversed the old phrase about “passing for white”. In the era of the “one drop rule” it was not uncommon for people with African ancestry who looked white to deny their African ancestry and “pass for white” and even marry whites and have children.
Despite the one-drop rule being held illegal (ever since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 overturned the Virginia Racial Integrity Act), as recently as 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a decision by the federal Office for Dispute Resolution to refuse to hear a case attacking Louisiana’s "racial" classification criteria as applied to Susie Phipps (479 U.S. 1002) (In 1985, the fair-complexioned Phipps had checked "White" on her passport application. It was denied because, decades before on her birth certificate, a midwife had checked "colored" for one of her parents. Phipps sued, testifying that "this classification came as a shock, since she had always thought she was White, had lived as White, had had twice married as White." 479 So. 2d 369). In addition, several authors and journalists have found it very profitable to "out" as black famous historical mulattoes and whites, who were regarded as white in their society, who self-identified as such, and who were culturally European-American, merely because they acknowledged having (often slight) African ancestry (Anatole Broyard, Patrick Francis Healy, Michael Morris Healy, Jr., Sir Peter Ustinov, Calvin Clark Davis, John James Audubon, Mother Henriette Delille — a Louisiana Creole).
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were shown in the crowd at the NC/Duke basketball game last week...I swear in one of the shots, he was running his hands thru his hair...
Thanks for the information!
BTTT!
If Newsmax has any evidence to the contrary, they carefully avoided presenting it.
His father married at least four women, he didn’t even meet this “grandmother” until he chose to do so for his political benefit. She happened to be one of his father’s wives.
This thread makes me wonder if any previous Presidential contenders had a grandmother (or grandfather) living at the time of the campaign. I don’t think any President has had a living grandparent—very few have had a father who was still alive when they were Presidents (or had any inkling, when they died, that their sons would later be President).
Are you kidding? Old black woman are as racist as they come. They couldn't give two shiites about her.
Fascinating..... innocent mistake or part of the propaganda campaign? I still don’t quite get what the big concern of Obama’s campaign is about suppressing info on the white grandparents who truly raised him..??? Is it that he thinks Black America will not fully embrace him if he is not seen as “black enough”?? But surely everyone who knows anything about him knows he is bi-racial?? But he’s trying to pass more specifically as “first black president” material so he doesn’t want to be thought of as bi-racial?? I really don’t get it since it makes no difference at all to me, I truly think of people in terms of their ideas and character, not in terms of their skin color.... so I just “don’t get it” why there should be any concern from within his campaign to hide his white grandparents and practically erase them from his past????
Wow, Obama sure got his facial featuers and ears from his White Grandfather.
Will the real Barry White please stand up?
Time to wake this thread up.
BTTT
Or perhaps the wealthy Obamas are paying her off to stay out of sight. Hawaii is an expensive place if all you have is Social Security
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