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It's not about being racist. It's about what Obama is seen as. He is seen as a black man, he refers to himself as a black man, he's a black man.
As another poster mentioned. During the election he was seen as a black man, no questions asked. But now that he won, he's now "mixed race". I'm sure the Presidents before him all weren't 100% caucasian, so I'm sure Obama isn't the first "mixed race" President.
In the history books, he will go down as the first African American President.
If I say I'm black, I'm black?
That's great news because I wanted to get into the U of M Law School.
Let me catch everyone up here. Obama is America's first Halfrican-American PE.
You can't "grow up 100% white" if you are, in fact, a black man.
I mean, come on...just look at him.
Regardless of his ethnic make-up and his racial heredity, he is quite obviously a black man. He has dark brown skin, black hair, and the physical characteristics of an African-American, for Pete's sake.
No one in his right mind can look at Barack Obama and claim that he is anything but a black man, regardless of the fact that his mom was white. He obviously inherited his father's African exterior physical appearance. If he had inherited his mother's white skin, he would be a white man who had a black parent. But, he did not, and he is not. He is a black man (duh) who had a white mother.
I mean, seriously, this is not difficult to comprehend.
its not black people trying to make a big stink out of this by attempting to justify his white mother and discredit a historical achievement for African Americans- its YOU white people try to turn him into your own personal "Webster" (poorly at that)
"It's A Different World" according to Dwayne Wayne, and Barack Obama is the current President-Elect of the United States of America
"He is of African ancestry and identifies as such. No matter what he looked like"
OK, then how is he not also a Muslim?
Because he never elected the Muslim faith. Religion is not genetic it is subscribed to behavior. Race to what ever degress it is significant is based on a genetic assumption that relates to government census definitions. They are available from the department. For those who desire a more simplistic differentiation of the two can consider the following.
Race is a defined condition of nature
Religion is defined condition of nurture and the individual elects their religion.
In modern life most of us are a mixture of a number of things and thats why we hopefully are moving towards a post racial society for the learned and forward thinking. However as you know there will be those who need to cling to whatever in order for them to be something of worth.
its not black people trying to make a big stink out of this by attempting to justify his white mother and discredit a historical achievement for African Americans- its YOU white people try to turn him into your own personal "Webster" (poorly at that)
"It's A Different World" according to Dwayne Wayne, and Barack Obama is the current President-Elect of the United States of America
Chill out and understand many of us White, Asian, Black, Hispanic etc see in Obama ourselves and identify with him as such and that is a very good thing and was helped by his being bi racial. I am Black and can understand that he is bi racial and White folks feel they can identify with him as well as I can and thats a very good thing. Don't you think his universality is a good thing and is part of his appeal pre-electin and will be part of the foundation for him to unite us moving forward?
Point blank, the only reason people are whining about him being mixed race is because he's the leader of the free world. There are thousands upon thousands of mixed race people all over the country who pretty much have the same skin tone as Obama, yet they'd get labeled as "that black guy" or "that black chick". The higher up on the ladder you are, the more people want to break down your racial background.
That's great news because I wanted to get into the U of M Law School.
Let me catch everyone up here. Obama is America's first Halfrican-American PE.
You totally missed my point
But in the end, Obama will go down in the history books as the First AFRICAN-AMERICAN President. You can slice and dice it anyway you please.
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