Obama First Bi-Racial President — Not African-American (identities, Hispanic, states)
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his father was african, so he is african american, his mother was white, so he is biracial. He is not the decendant of slaves, however. Which makes some of the rhetoric around him a little awkward for me. But his election to POTUS is still historic.
Sorry. He's African-American anyway you put it. I am sure you haven't bothered to research race classification in this country. However, there was a standard called the "one-drop rule" which said that if a person in this country has one drop of black blood in their body, that they were to be considered black.
Because you don't sweep history under the carpet? Racial discrimination was as still IS a huge part of America. As much as you and others want to sweep history under the carpet in a poorly executed attempt to take this moment away from millions, you can't. Sorry.
i dont know, whats a full blooded american? full blooded puerto rican etc
same thing different story,since AA re an ethnic group out of many black groups in america one could assume though when someone says this is that their fully ethnically/culturally AA!
why does AA only get a bad rap but others who use those phrases do not?
The only full-blooded Americans are the native Americans who have not inter-married. The rest of us have some European, African, Asian, etc. blood in our mixtures. I am a European-American because my ancestors came from Belgium and the Netherlands.
PPPlease!!!! how have the blacks suffered? I wish I could lay on my ass in a house paid by hud, have 5 kids so I can reap the federal benifits and not do a damn thing with my life...blacks suffer becuase they choose too!
You know, when I visit my local Wal Mart near my house, I see just as many if not more white people using food stamps. Our government subsidized apartments have whites and Hispanics in them--more often than they have blacks in them. Most of these people--of all races--are having to take food stamps and live in government housing because their salaries are so low or they have health issues and have been bankrupted paying for health care. I have worked in public administration for a good number of years in the late 80's and early 90's. The families I dealt with sometimes included lazy people who abused the system. Guess what! They were of all races.
More often, we helped people who had two or more minimum wage jobs between the mother and father and were working their asses off but could not get ahead because minimum wage just doesn't cut it. I could tell you hundreds of stories and give you hundreds of examples of hard working people of all races who could not catch a break. Often they hated being on welfare and/or food stamps, and they worked as hard as they could to get off of it.
Don't paint a whole race of people with the same brush. This is racism in its purest form.
It is so funny how black are calling him the first black president...I couldn't care less, but I'm laughing about it....
Oprah the women who always wants to get rid of racism and on the other hand is doing nothing than holding "black celebraty days, black woman day, etc...", was showing up with her hubby, Gail, Jzee (or whatever you might write that name), Jesse Jackson jr, etc...all black...so much for her way of getting people together and forget about race issues!
She is #1 on the list of hypocrite people!
I also laugh about the Dem. who wants to rub it in that they have a president and Rep. have to shut up and don't whine about it....while they whined and bashed for 8 years and never took it as decent people...but we have too...very easy, because most Rep. arent behaving as Dem. and spent their days better than whining...
It is so funny how black are calling him the first black president...I couldn't care less, but I'm laughing about it....
Oprah the women who always wants to get rid of racism and on the other hand is doing nothing than holding "black celebraty days, black woman day, etc...", was showing up with her hubby, Gail, Jzee (or whatever you might write that name), Jesse Jackson jr, etc...all black...so much for her way of getting people together and forget about race issues!
She is #1 on the list of hypocrite people!
I also laugh about the Dem. who wants to rub it in that they have a president and Rep. have to shut up and don't whine about it....while they whined and bashed for 8 years and never took it as decent people...but we have too...very easy, because most Rep. arent behaving as Dem. and spent their days better than whining...
This idiocy doesn't even deserve a response..............
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