Comments on: Biracial = Black?

By: 1p3

1p3 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:57:45 +0000

Perhaps it's merely because his skin colour is darker than that of most of his fellow Americans.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:37:04 +0000

Boyd;
Probably only when "Rat's patooties" reach $135 on the futures market??

By: Steve Plunk

Steve Plunk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:27:13 +0000

Obama is black? All I see is liberal.

Tiger is black? All I see is golfer.

Halle Berry is black? I better not say what I'm looking at.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:05:02 +0000

When are we going to get to the point where we don't give a rat's patootie about anyone's race?

When we find something that is more different than us than we are to each other.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:51:38 +0000

When are we going to get to the point where we don't give a rat's patootie about anyone's race? Frankly, I'm getting pretty sick of all this race-identification.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:39:14 +0000

I guess Obama would rather be judged by the color of his skin, rather than the content of his character??
In his case that may be a good choice!

By: od

od — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:21:12 +0000

Quite frankly, if he was 0% black and 100% anything else, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic Party's nominee.

Based on the phenomenal success black candidates have had in gaining presidential nominations in the past? Just because Ferraro says black politicians have an easier time getting elected than white men or women doesn't mean its true ... Hillary Clinton is not the democratic party's nominee because she ran a horrible race, running as the establishment candidate at a time people were looking for change, and with no contingency plans for the race continuing after Super Tuesday. I don't like a lot of what Obama says, but its hard to argue against his statement that being a black politician named Barak Hussein Obama isn't an advantage in US elections, nor is it a disadvantage. The people who will automatically vote for him because he's black more or less cancel out those who will automatically vote against him because he's black.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:41:06 +0000

I have faith in the American electorate that superficiality won't play a part and that Barack Obama will not receive votes solely based on his skin color.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:06:04 +0000

Read his first book. His reconciliation of his roots and his choice to self-identify as not just a black, but an African-American, is a major theme. It's one of the subjects, frankly, on which I have no fault to find with Barack Obama.

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:37:58 +0000

The interesting thing about Obama's background is the thought his African forebares could have sold ancestors of his constituents into slavery. Wonder how that sits with the African/American community? Better yet, has anyone ever investigated the possiblility?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:11:44 +0000

Obama himself has embraced his black-itude. He went to that church for 20 years to build up his cred with black folks in the South Side. He's married to a black woman. He got Oprah to campaign for him.

Quite frankly, if he was 0% black and 100% anything else, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic Party's nominee.

He's black, he knows he's black, he self-identifies as black, and he's counting on his blackness helping him to get votes.

I think that defines him as black, more accurately than any numbers game we can play with percentages.

By: Patrick T. McGuire

Patrick T. McGuire — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:46:00 +0000

...despite having a white mother.

Not to mention that he is related to Dick Cheney!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:34:26 +0000

Biracial = Not really Black

Hence all that talk about "Is Obama Black Enough?"

How many non-white people were actually saying that?

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:33:35 +0000

There's also the flip side of the coin

Biracial = Not really Black

Hence all that talk about "Is Obama Black Enough?"

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:47:31 +0000

Biracial = Black?

Should be "Not White == Black", and it's not a new phenomena in cultural identities created by white people.