"I I I I I. Me me I me I I I me I me me."
Posted on 07/31/2010 9:30:27 PM PDT by A chemist
There are hndreds of comments on the president's quote from his interview on "The View":
When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people."
"I mean we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it."
And people quickly point out the obvious poit - imagine if (Fill in conservative / Republican name here) had said "Blacks are sort of a mongrel race". The roar from the media would be deafening. There could be a second BP spill and you wouldn't know it because all you would see and hear would be the above comment for weeks and weeks. The offender would be driven from public life and made a laughingstock of for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, yeah. We know buddy - the media is biased. Get over it. If you had any doubt about it, just look at the Journo List controversy and those leaked emails. Life isn't fair. Stop complaining.
That's not the point.
Read the above quote again: "WE are sort of a mongrel race. WE'RE all sorts of mixed up. That's actually true of WHITE PEOPLE as well, but WE just know more about it."
Never in my life have I seen a president of the United States declare such an US vs THEM attitude based on race. Sure, you'll see it based on ideologies and political philosophies, but never, and I mean never, have I seen a president of the whole country espouse such a racist attitude.
I am shocked. I fear for our country under this man.
And yeah, I'll say it - "And the media said nothing."
"I I I I I. Me me I me I I I me I me me."
“I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up,” Obama said. “That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it.”
That is a weird thing to say, in a conversation about how he has a white mother. You want to say, ahem, you ARE white people. At least as much as you’re black. But we all know he sees himself as black—either because anyone who looks black is treated as black, or because that’s the way he chose to identify himself. So no more of that crap about how he’s in a special position to heal the racial rift, or whatever, due to his split soul. If you’re not white, than you’re not the Great Racial Bridge.
Very astute observation there. Obama, although he is exactly half white, is clearly identifying himself as a black person.
If he were as "post-racial" as initially claimed by his boosters, he'd hardly think of himself as black, nor would he conduct his life on such strict terms of racial identification.
If anything, he'd probably try to steer all such conversations past the subject of race, and toward the concept of purely American identity.
it is the WE just KNOW MORE
you crackers just don't know as much.
FUBO!!
Clean and articulate mongrel bump.
>> Obama: “That’s actually true of WHITE PEOPLE as well, but WE just know more about it.”
Thanks for pointing that out. I ‘unfortunately’ missed that episode of the View.
good point
as my innocent 6 yr old kid said yrs ago in a school sponsored diversity painting class.....â€I need more white paint!...I mixed the black and the white together so now i cant paint the white kid..which happened to be on the end...(they were labeled)
Excellent observation.
Very good point. Yes, he had a white communist mother, but there is no way in this country or any other country that he could pass as remotely white. To me he doesn’t even look biracial
Of all the things I despise about Obama, this sure isn't one of them.
Some people are so eager to point the finger and scream "Racist!" at a black person that they don't grasp what the point SHOULD be--which is that pointing the finger and shouting "Racist!" is freakin' stupid no matter who does it 99 of the time.
Obama has lived his life as a black guy like many black people who have some white blood in them, and here he said "us" as in black people and "them" as in white people--so freakin what? It's no more offensive or pointless to me than all the white people who talk about "we italians/Irish/whatever".
I mean, of all the stuff this boob has done, this rates about 11,752nd in terms of ofensiveness, or importance.
Why would black people know more than white people about being “all kinds of mixed up”? If he’d ever get past his racialism, he might start to see straight.
did he possibly think that wouldn’t cause problems?
This brings up something I’ve been thinking about lately—are we all descendants of black people? There is apparently some good genetic evidence that we all came from a relatively small group of humans (about 3,000 to 10,000) that survived some very difficult times about 70,000 years ago That’s apparently why humans today have very little genetic variability as compared to other species.
What I’m getting at is that if these people came out of Africa, as is widely believed, weren’t they probably black? And therefore, aren’t our great-great-great-great...-ancestors black as well? Which makes us all, well, Negroes or African-Americans or something like that?
Alas, the very people who have ancestors who bled and died to free the slaves in this country are now the target of the very same democrat party that owned the slaves, created the Jim Crow laws when they had lost the war, and have put the black folks back on democrat run plantations. The question is, will folks realize the real problem and finally completely eliminate the Nazi democrat party the same way Germany outlawed their national socialists.
Regards
It's a strange term to use.
What have you been doing your whole life, Obama and where have you been doing it?
This is a really thought provoking article. I thought that you might be interested in it.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html
Well, to be fair, he IS black. He’s not white.
Understand, I’m not talking about his race. Obviously, he’s mixed race, being the child of Ann Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis, but his skin color is black. So, assuming he was using black as a descriptive adjective of skin color, rather than indicating biological heritage, his statement loses much of its offense.
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