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Obama was not the "first black president". This is another falsehood perpetuated by the left.
Notice he wasn't referred to as the first half white president...............
The issue of skin color being the only difference between whites and blacks.......another lie. People live in a dream world of lies. Ask any doctor or med student if there is a difference in the skeletal formation of a black vs. a white.
O.K .........I'll answer it for you, yes. Blacks have different skeletons than whites.
even grew up in Indonesia where there are no African/Black
Obama was a black boy growing up with a grand mother who was confused by this. When he stepped foot on the mainland he was seen as a black man and was treated as one. When he moved to Chicago he was embraced by the black community there.
In fact had he started his political career in a predominantly what area n Chicago he would NOT have won office as that was a deeply segregated city in the 90s when he began his political career.
In fact Obama is an illustration of the fact that in the USA black=black, regardless as to the background of the person. Certainly did when Obama was growing up even if it isnt as obvious today.
Barack Obama says that he is a black man. One day people will quit telling him what he is.
You cannot win the presidency "based on the African American vote". In fact if being president was his goal he would have found some wealthy white liberal to marry, maybe one of the Kennedys.
I know people who knew him at Columbia U. He did NOT mix with white students. He saw himself in fact more as a non white foreign student. We can debate as to what point did his "non whiteness" morph into a specifically black identity, but what we do know is that when he was a student at Columbia he wasn't embedded among the white students.
Obama left NYC to move to the Chicago inner city. This is BEFORE he met Michelle. I very much doubt that a kid in the 80s with Obama's background saw himself as presidential. Up to that time one had to have a wealthy background to achieve this.
Unfortunately, I agree with your first paragraph, Antonio. I would not be surprised if the Obamas are staying married because of appearances and the children. .
If Michelle had her way Obama would have stopped the "community activist foolishness" and did what most Harvard Law grads do and that is get a good job in a prestigious law firm. The fact that he didn't do so risked his divorce as she was tired of having to bear the full financial burden of maintaining the family. Married women rarely admire men who force them to play this role.
I suggest that you research Antonio R better and you will learn that he considers anyone who thinks that blacks should assertively voice their views is a radical black Afrocentric militant. Just debate with him about the Dominican skin color issue and you will see his true colors.
I suggest that you research Antonio R better and you will learn that he considers anyone who thinks that blacks should assertively voice their views is a radical black Afrocentric militant. Just debate with him about the Dominican skin color issue and you will see his true colors.
Unlike the majority of people on CD, I don't write people off because I might vehemently disagree with them on some (or most) issues. That's what's wrong with the world today. People unwilling to hear you out because they "don't like" you. That makes you close-minded, and I try not to be that way.
I'm going to add one more thing then I will go away. The term African American means nothing. Civilization started in Africa.......period. Africans come in all colors......not just blacks. Another falsehood invented by the enemies of America.
If you have ever traveled in Africa you know exactly of what I speak.
Unfortunately, I agree with your first paragraph, Antonio. I would not be surprised if the Obamas are staying married because of appearances and the children. No judgment, because many people do. But based on Michelle Obama's background, I wonder what attracted her to Barack Obama in the first place. I don't think Obama is totally faking it. I honestly believe he doesn't really know what space he fits in. In addition to the weight of being the first black president, I think his "people pleasing" nature comes from wanting to be accepted by everyone. People with a strong identity don't feel the need to be accepted by everyone. You know that's impossible. You focus on those who accept you and forget the rest. Obviously you can't do that as president (and certainly not a black one), but look at Trump. Say what you will...you can tell he has a strong sense of self (even if a lot of it is ego) by the way he leads. He makes his decisions wit confidence. I can even point to Serena Williams who, like Obama, spends her entire career navigating a white space that's hostile to her. But she is unapologetically herself, for better or worse. She gets that from her father. There is a great clip on YouTube of an interview with Venus as a child. Richard Williams stops the interviewer when he realized the man was trying to show seeds of doubt in Venus (Venus confidently expressed that she could beat a player, and the interviewer kept questioning her about it). It is an awesome lesson for any parent of any race about not allowing people to ruin your child's self-estreem. Richard Williams's influence is very apparent in Serena and Venus. It is why people can't stand Serena and seek to tear her down. She behaves like a white girl on the court (asserts herself) and doesn't know her place.
I wrote all that to say...I don't think Obama "using" the black community is as sinister as people believe. Calculating? Yes. But I honestly think he's just trying to fit in where he can. It's hard being a black man who grew up "white" but will never be fully accepted because of the color of your skin. And you can't really relate to the experiences of your skin color brethren who accept you. Not a fun place to be.
I don’t doubt that Barack and Michelle love each other.
It’s very hard for me to say what lead Michelle to unite with Barack, mostly because I haven’t researched her aspect of this.
With Barack, and based on all the information that exist regarding who he picked to be his spouse, its certain to me that from his part it didn’t start with love but interest. The love part probably grew on him with time, if not durig courtship and marriage then definitely after the daughters were born. None of this negates that Barack initially picked Michelle not so much due to a love of her, but rather his desire to become president. At that particular moment of his life he decided to sacrifice his own full happiness because his desire to be president was greater. Had the US been a different type of society where people’s allegiances aren’t based on race/color/with whom they date or marry, that’s one sacrifice Barack would had never done.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think the US has ever had an interracial presidential family. The reasons for that probably has nothing to do with many of the presidents themselves but rather the racism that permeats US society.
I don’t doubt that Barack and Michelle love each other.
It’s very hard for me to say what lead Michelle to unite with Barack, mostly because I haven’t researched her aspect of this.
With Barack, and based on all the information that exist regarding who he picked to be his spouse, its certain to me that from his part it didn’t start with love but interest. The love part probably grew on him with time, if not durig courtship and marriage then definitely after the daughters were born. None of this negates that Barack initially picked Michelle not so much due to a love of her, but rather his desire to become president. At that particular moment of his life he decided to sacrifice his own full happiness because his desire to be president was greater. Had the US been a different type of society where people’s allegiances aren’t based on race/color/with whom they date or marry, that’s one sacrifice Barack would had never done.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think the US has ever had an interracial presidential family. The reasons for that probably has nothing to do with many of the presidents themselves but rather the racism that permeats US society.
I think it is very true that many Americans, independent of race, would have held Barack Obama suspect if he had married a white woman... and that this would have prevented his political ascendancy.
It's interesting... the woman in the video says that blacks built America... you hear that a lot among Afro-centrists... negating the contributions of other people.
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