How is Barack Obama "black"?

[Ironic Commando]

^
says U

says the brotha looking at the camera in my sig...but thats a whole other story in and of itself

 

[HERESY]

LOL. Your translation must be correct, because after all you are Heresy.

Now you're talkin.

 

[Gas One]

the charcoal blacks get it worse from you hi yellas. and thats worse than getting harassed by the white man...cant even find solace within your own community

im around the same color shade as the guy in the front of that picture. never said i was yellow. just saying that anyone who looks like a black man gets treated as one...unless youre a dominican or a haitan that dosent speak american at all..

when people see someone like wyclef and they dont know his international stance, they think black man

 

[HERESY]

So he may be black in skin tone, but is he black in culture and deed? I'm not saying he should speak ebonics and change his slogan to "WE BE'S CHANGIN", eat chicken and watermelon, ghost ride his presidential jet, blow trees and put 8 15's in the Obama tour bus. Not all blacks speak or behave in this manner.

Now if he wasn't Barack Hussein, the democrat leader and just some ordinary chap, would he suffer the same things you and I do? Absolutely. However, saying the man is black, and not giving any attention to his biracial heritage simply reinforces the one drop rule that was created to limit us in the first place. Yes, our society calls him black, but is it an accurate portrayal of who he is? Does such a label actually represent who he is and what he is supposed to stand for?

 

[Ironic Commando]

im around the same color shade as the guy in the front of that picture. never said i was yellow. just saying that anyone who looks like a black man gets treated as one...unless youre a dominican or a haitan that dosent speak american at all..

when people see someone like wyclef and they dont know his international stance, they think black man

shit dont change culturally. you can be a dark skinned asian and be ostracized from your community. its an unwritten rule worldwide...dark skin...bad. ever watch a bollywood flick? but im getting off topic..i digress

 

[|GOD|||ZILLA|]

c'mon.. the whities who even care about race think he's muslim.. the fuck black got to do with shit... in this day and age(right now bitch).. the hussein is far worse than the skin color.

 

[Foul Mouth]

He is as white as he is black.

In reality he is neither. He is mixed race white & black.

Isn't calling him a black man, reinforcing a racist point of view that white is "pure" any mix automatically renders the offspring non-white?

its just like Tiger Woods is a "Black" golfer............you can be any of two races,but whatever race you most resemble is what you are to society..........


a lot of people dont even know that Obama is half and half, at that, a lot of people dont know that he was raised by a single white mother...........

 

[EverReadyT9X]

wasnt he raised by his grandparents not his mother or father?

 

[REdRUM]

c'mon.. the whities who even care about race think he's muslim.. the fuck black got to do with shit... in this day and age(right now bitch).. the hussein is far worse than the skin color.

No.

It's going to be a long, long time before anything is worse than being black to certain people.

 

[Ethereal]

To society, race (white/black/brown/yellow) is characterized by physical attributes (heredity) whereas nationality is characterized by ones ties to their country of origin; where their ancestors are from. These are two different classifications. Obama could be German, but he is still a black man.

 

[Lordbyron]

^^^ I think Mr. Nice Guy is asking how can Obama be a Black man with a White momma...

 

[Ethereal]

I believe I answered that question.

 

[Lordbyron]

Nah, you brought up nationality...

 

[AKAZIE]

so what about all the shit that he's related to The Bush's and Brad Pitt.. and some other presidents.. do ya'll think thats true? cuz i don't really know what to think. Is Hillary, McCaine and Obama admitting or denying this.

 

[cronz_one]

"I uphold the one drop rule that has ostracized many people in our society and view him as a chocolate messiah that crawled down from a candy cross."

Thats fuckin hilarious.

 

[Ethereal]

Nah, you brought up nationality...

To society, race (white/black/brown/yellow) is characterized by physical attributes (heredity) whereas nationality is characterized by ones ties to their country of origin; where their ancestors are from. These are two different classifications. Obama could be German, but he is still a black man.

..

 

[Lordbyron]

Let me put it differently... If Obama had a Swiss (White) momma and a Kenyan (Black) daddy he'd be...? Of Swiss and Kenyan descent (half White half Black)... If his momma was German (White) and his father was Angolan (Black) he'd be..................? Of German and Angolan descent (half White half Black)... So the question is, how can he have a Black father (regardless of nationality) and a White mother (regardless of nationality) and be a BLACK man...?

 

[Foul Mouth]

cus you are what you look like............

 

[Gordon Gekko]

There's been a rule in this country for the longest time, even since slavery. That if a person has black in them, then they're considered black. But why is it that when a biracial black man has a real chance at winning a presidential election, now all of a sudden...that rule is questioned? But if he were on the streets selling drugs, gang banging, getting in trouble, etc., then they would consider him black without question.

 

[rekomstop]

No.

It's going to be a long, long time before anything is worse than being black to certain people.

naw, i dunno, i've gotten plenty of disapproving looks when i say my fiances name haha.