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Posts: 384 (01/24/2009 7:04 PM) |
sugarshaker wrote:Barack Obama calls himself black. The END. "My view has always been that I'm African-American," Obama told Chicago Tribune reporter Dawn Turner Trice back in 2004. He was black during the primaries and everyone wondered, would Americans get pass his race and choose a Black man for president? For 18 months thats all we
heard... he can't win, cause he's black.
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Posts: 1097 (01/24/2009 7:08 PM) |
lolaVici wrote: yep! |
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Posts: 12300 (01/24/2009 7:17 PM) |
Natee471 wrote: Which was an extremelly smart move of him. He was a Harvard grad Hawaiian who had moved to Chicago and tried desperately to fit in the African-American community in order to advance his political career. Look, I like Obama, I really do. But never underestimate a politician. They can make you believe night is day. |
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Posts: 385 (01/24/2009 8:15 PM) |
Marsen wrote: If Obama calls himself African American I respect that. If he wants to be called mixed, I'll respect that, too. I'm not going to tell that man what to identify himself as. Obama is claiming African-American, because our country has made it a requirement that we choose which race we are from. It would be a perfect world if everyone were noticed for their abilities and achievements only. Really, I don't think he had a choice. The funny thing is whites didn't claim him under Jim Crow law but suddenly, they do. They want him to claim and embrace his white family. He's done nothing but claim, honor, and embrace them. He just felt that he was black in this world due to society demanding that he's black. So he seeked answers as a black man. He chose to embrace, celebrate, and "deal with" his blackness and I'm proud of him for standing tall and standing strong. Being African American is not about the percentage in which you are - It's about the experience, it's about the individual, it's about where you fit in. No one is denying or trying to take the "white" out of him. He publically acknowledges that his mother is white, as well as his grandparents. If the 'one-drop' rule/statue hadn't been adopted by whites in southern states, staring in 1910, this may not even be an issue right now. White
people made the rules and by those rules he is African American.
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Posts: 2174 (01/24/2009 8:45 PM) |
Natee471 wrote: I read your comment and everything you said I agree with, especially the part about the one drop rule that statement alone explains well and detailed why He says he is black IMO....... |
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Posts: 2666 (01/24/2009 8:46 PM) |
Can we all just say Our President (regardless of race), instead of doing this black, black and white, biracial, green, purple, blue bull shit.
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01/24/2009 10:36 PM.
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Posts: 2738 (01/24/2009 8:54 PM) |
Rysi wrote:Amen to that. The color of his skin shouldn't have any bearing on how he's going to run our country. He's OUR President... THE END.
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01/24/2009 9:00 PM.
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Posts: 20917 (01/24/2009 9:04 PM) |
sugarshaker wrote:African-American. He goes by that. |
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Posts: 20918 (01/24/2009 9:05 PM) |
Natee471 wrote: 
Isn't it amazing how motherfuckers try to spin shit around? 
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Rysi |
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Posts: 2669 (01/24/2009 9:22 PM) |
kellyilla wrote:Does it really matter? He is human like everyone else... |
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Posts: 6269 (01/24/2009 9:28 PM) |
Natee471 wrote: THANK YOU! He is BLACK. Deal with it bitches. |
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lilSS |
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Posts: 10988 (01/24/2009 10:33 PM) |
That man considers himself black and according to law, he is black. when he was just a senator, everyone else considered him black....Im going to go with his
being black. Cant have it both ways, you know, claiming people when it suits you to do so.
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Posts: 18958 (01/24/2009 11:44 PM) |
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Posts: 18959 (01/24/2009 11:45 PM) |
green lights 30 wrote:I love your avatar.
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Posts: 19848 (01/25/2009 12:07 AM) |
I LOVE that elevator pic! I saw those pics this morning on the NY Post site and I just smiled when I realized she was wearing his jacket. Such a cute
couple!
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Posts: 4229 (01/25/2009 12:58 AM) |
I am white and in my opinion.....he identifies himself as being black so he's black.
BTW, He's not just YOUR president...he's OUR president!! THANK GOD!! LOL! edit to clarify: When I say ours...I dont mean black or white, I mean all of us together! edit again: Wanted to add one more FACT. If you didnt know that man...and you saw him walking down the street you would see him as being black. For that fact alone, and the obstacles he has faced on his path to the white house because of it, he can certainly identify with the struggles of the black man in todays society.
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01/25/2009 1:06 AM.
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Sleepn |
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Posts: 15611 (01/25/2009 1:02 AM) Most Mysterious '08 |
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Posts: 11001 (01/25/2009 1:31 AM) |
well put Tanner.
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Posts: 5644 (01/25/2009 2:12 AM) |
The category of race is socially constructed so it's not a matter of biology and what the percentage of your genetic make-up is. Race is about the way
other people in society see you and if they see you as black and treat you as if you're black, then you're black. Barack Obama looks black, so
therefore he is black.
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Posts: 20735 (01/25/2009 2:54 AM) |
Babydoll04 wrote: Dear gracious. OUR president... |
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