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I read this new review of Seth A. Forman's "American Obsession: Race and Conflict in the Age of Obama." It is highly recommended. You must scroll down a little to view it. I read the book this summer for a college class. It was great. But I hadn't seen any reviews yet. Bookviews I think is the first.
1 posted on 09/15/2011 5:35:33 AM PDT by Kim Dylan
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To: Kim Dylan

And the race baiting and outrageous declarations by the CBC certainly aren’t helping. They sound like lunatics.


2 posted on 09/15/2011 5:37:46 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (New Day In America November 03, 2010)
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I don’t think race enters into it. He has divided us by normal folk and the stupid. (or elites, either one is interchangeable in my mind.)


3 posted on 09/15/2011 5:38:35 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Sanitized for your protection)
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To: Kim Dylan

Bamster seems to care less about the content of one’s character, IMO.


7 posted on 09/15/2011 5:58:47 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Kim Dylan

The only people that care about his race are his supporters and the KKK type remnant. The latter is rare indeed.

And since he is mullato, when he starts crashing and burning his supporters can start calling him white. 8->

After all, everybody knows that Bill Clinton was the first black president.


11 posted on 09/15/2011 6:07:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Race relations in the United States has been set back by a least a century by CZAR B.O.!


15 posted on 09/15/2011 6:17:44 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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Bitter divided “by race”?? ROFL!! No, it is bitterly divided by ideology. Recall that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a debate. It is about the liberal meaning of “black”.

When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, can tell us in a widely read autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?

When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.” During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,” he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”

“Black” in all these contexts, as well as Juan Williams’s complaint on Fox News that the extraordinarily lopsided expression of Missouri voter sentiment in August of 2010 rejecting ObamaCare was really about race, is clearly not about “race”.

As these expressions of “black” pile up in the mind of the public, more and more will wake up to this truth: with respect to BHO being black: it is not about the racial characteristics he was born with, it is about the socialist ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is.


16 posted on 09/15/2011 6:36:15 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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