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IS BARACK OBAMA BLACK?


[+] serious ballot by Corrupt
created Mon Jan 22, 07

According to the "intellectuals" at Salon.com apparently not.

Salon.com -- Colorblind by Debra Dickerson

... I didn't have the heart (or the stomach) to point out the obvious: Obama isn't black.

"Black" in our political and social reality,means those descended from West African slaves.Voluntary immigrants of African descent (even those descended from West Indian Slaves)are just that,voluntary immigrants of African decent with markedly different outlooks on the role of race in their lives and in politics.At a minimum,it can't be assumed that a Nigerian cabdriver and a third- generation Harlemite have more in common than the fact a cop won't bother to make the distinction.They're both "black" as a matter of skin color and DNA,but only the Harlemite,for better or worse,is politically and culturaly black,as we use the term.

Do you agree with Dickerson that Obama is not politically nor culturally "black", as the term is understood in the U.S?

Yes
No
He is the decider and no one else...
He sho' ain't White!
OH MY--..no he's asian -_-
He's mulatto, half black muslim, half white
He was white and then he had that disease like Michael Jackson and now he's black!


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COMMENTS:
huh?
by Kev24 on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:24pm [+]

he's obviously blue.
by seamus on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:27pm [+]

Voted : Yes
By the legal definition of race, *I'm* not black. According to U.S. law, a person's race is defined by the race of that person's father, and that of their father, and so on. My father's father was a Welshman, therefore I'm Welsh and considered White. Last time I put that on an application, I got stares aplenty.
by Truthseeker013 on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:30pm [+]

My thoughts exactly Kev, what the hell is this journalist talking about?Apparently according to some liberals unless you are a descendant of West African slaves borought to American in chains you are not culturally black.
by Corrupt on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:37pm [+]

Someone has been in graduate school studying social constructs, etc waaaaay too long.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:45pm [+]

I'm waiting for them to say "He's so well spoken" a-la Colin Powell.

You have the racial steroetype double-whammy, Truthseker. Tom (and his) Jones and Long Dong Silver. 107
by _Beelzebubba on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:46pm [+]

Apparently, according to "one" person, he doesn't fit the restricted definition of blackness that person proposes. Not all those racist liberal intellectuals at Salon.

So why does this put such a bee up your ass?
by cranky on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:49pm [+]

Voted : Yes
wtf??
by mojo on Mon Jan 22, 07 12:49pm [+]

Voted : Yes
Well, he ain't white.
by Gnomehunter1 on Mon Jan 22, 07 1:04pm [+]

I am disgusted by this article cranky because it serves no other purpose but to further divide African Americans from the rest of the nation.
by Corrupt on Mon Jan 22, 07 1:07pm [+]

^ YEP
by mojo on Mon Jan 22, 07 1:08pm [+]

My comment was in response to Gnomehunter.
by mojo on Mon Jan 22, 07 1:09pm [+]

Truthseeker..."Last time I put that on an application".

Do American applications ask what your race is?
by ClosetIguana on Mon Jan 22, 07 3:20pm [+]

Voted : No
Politically and culturally black? I'd like to hear him explain exactly what that means.
by herzog on Mon Jan 22, 07 3:32pm [+]

Voted : He is the decider and no one else...
I would venture to say that Mr. Obama will be the decider regarding this matter...Yes, his physical make up would suggest that he is a man of color...However, that could encompass many other racial additives, as we all know, he is of mixed racial background, as we all are...
by Barbara_Baby_Cakes on Mon Jan 22, 07 5:35pm [+]

Voted : Yes
I don't know. If you rub his skin will his blacness come off? Of course he's black. I hope that no one makes his race and issue in this election.
by TomSmith on Mon Jan 22, 07 6:14pm [+]

What I do think is that if he loses the Rev's Al & Jesse will say its because America is racist and if he wins, they'll call him an Uncle Tom sell out.
by TomSmith on Mon Jan 22, 07 6:22pm [+]

Voted : Yes
I've always thought "black" basically meant "of African descent," no matter where you are in the world.
by himself809 on Mon Jan 22, 07 6:56pm [+]

Voted : No
I never heard that before.
by skylab on Mon Jan 22, 07 10:32pm [+]

Voted : Yes
That was my immediate impression the first time I saw him.
by forgetmenot on Sun Feb 04, 07 10:16pm [+]

Obama is running for the president of the United States of America. Our energy should be spent on the issues that concern the American people and what contributes to their quality of living. This color issue is a gross distraction to the progress of this country and we should be using quality time and effort working togething for the common good of all the American People.
by Guest User from [69.209.194.225] on Tue Feb 13, 07 7:38pm [+]

Voted : Yes
If Obama thinks he is not, he is deluding himself.
by forgetmenot on Sun Aug 19, 07 11:15am [+]

Voted : He sho' ain't White!
He is what they used to call that mixture, "a mulatto". On the old census records, people were classified as "white, colored, or black".. Obama, being mixed, would have been "colored". Though at a later date "colored" came to mean any negro or black, and was a "polite" term for all negroes!
Either Hillary or Obama would certainly be 'a novelty', but what we need is someone who's Really Qualified to be our next president, not some 'novelty'!
Be they Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever, please make a sensible, rational choice for President!
(AND someday, I'd like to see a Native American as Presedent!)
by ForceCop on Wed Oct 24, 07 3:44pm [+]

Voted : No
Did you see clips of him dancing on Ellen? That's a white boy!
by _Beelzebubba on Fri Jan 04, 08 1:34pm [+]

Voted : No
Obama is an Arab. He has an Arabic name (Barack Hussein Obama) because he's an Arab.
by PolishUser on Sun Apr 13, 08 1:06pm [+]

Please type "Obama, the Arab-American liar" into a Google searcher.
by PolishUser on Sun Apr 13, 08 1:08pm [+]

Technically, he's Hawaiian. :) (He was born in Hawaii......................)
by piggie8 on Fri Jul 11, 08 12:51pm [+]

Wait though, isn't his mom white?
by piggie8 on Fri Jul 11, 08 12:52pm [+]






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