I think that's bullshit Jarod. He grew up in America looking like a black male. That says it all.
I think, even in Hawai, he would have faced some ugliness by being biracial. That said, I also understand the claims that his family did not have the experiences that many blacks did in the US. And that would have shaped some of his views. But to say he is not black is a stretch.
Yep, and to claim he's not our first black President, I don't even know why anyone would want to make that claim. It's weird.
I find it racist to ignore the fact that he is born 50% white. Its based on the idea that the white race is so pure that even a drop of black blood makes you one of them.
I think Freeman's words say a lot about the social position of the biracial. The fact that Obama has a white mother means he is not accepted as black by many people, especially other blacks. It is a more subtle form of racism, but it comes from both sides. He is too black to be white, but his white mother means he is not 100% black.
I think Freeman's words say a lot about the social position of the biracial. The fact that Obama has a white mother means he is not accepted as black by many people, especially other blacks. It is a more subtle form of racism, but it comes from both sides. He is too black to be white, but his white mother means he is not 100% black.
No Jarod. Actually and historically the reverse is true.
I think Freeman's words say a lot about the social position of the biracial. The fact that Obama has a white mother means he is not accepted as black by many people, especially other blacks. It is a more subtle form of racism, but it comes from both sides. He is too black to be white, but his white mother means he is not 100% black.
I'll defer to BAC as this as I'm guessing from his screen name he is a dark skin brother. But in my experience (as a white conservative male) I remember the darker black woman complaining that many black dudes favored lighter skinned black women and that there was a definite division between dark and light.
So it wouldn't surprise me if a darker skinned black person thinks there's a difference between them and a lighter skinned mixed race black guy who was raised by a white family.
I agree with Morgan Freeman, Ive been pointing out that the President had a white mother for a long time and that the president is as much white as he is black. I am not critizing the President for this, I am simply pointing out that fact.
Additionally, the president does not share a lot of ancestral history with the bulk of African Americans. He is not the decendent of slaves, (he is married to a decendent of slaves) his family did not suffer the opression the Average African American family suffered. (His wife's family did)
He grew up in a world that considered him black, and in that experience he understands what it means to be a black American, but his experience is very different.