The blackness of Barack Obama (liberals' hypocrisy, true racism nailed)

National Post - Canada ^ | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | Andrew Coyne

[GMMAC]

PING!

[DeFault User]

Barack Obama's campaign for president has barely begun, and already the questions are mounting. Is he experienced enough? Is he tough enough? And, bizarrely, is he black enough?

Not one word about his character or his politics, huh?

[Jeremydmccann]

Obama is a disgrace and a fraud! His white mother brought him up while his black father hit the road. The man is neither black nor white. He should be ashamed of himself for first disrespecting his mother, and secondly becoming no diffferent than the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, Duke and all the other disgusting race pimps of such caliber.

[llevrok]

And, bizarrely, is he black enough?

Drop him off at 125th street in Harlem and he'd be more out of place there than Joe Biden.

[Post Toasties]

Was he, in effect, a self-hating black, while the gangstas, with their invocations of pimps, drug-dealing and other aspects of street life, were the true standard-bearers of racial pride?

Who says 'acting white' has to do with being Caucasian or even originated exclusively with 'white' people? If that's all Al Sharpton can hold up against Bill Cosby's criticism, Sharpton is in automatic self discreditation mode.

[adorno]

Barack Obama's campaign for president has barely begun, and already the questions are mounting. Is he experienced enough? Is he tough enough? And, bizarrely, is he black enough?

Why is this man even a candidate with any kind of audience to begin with? If his views are what some people want to hear, then I'm pretty sure there are plenty of other people in the democrat party that are just as far-left as Obama. Why aren't those other people getting the same kind of attention as Obama? Hmmm? Perhaps they're not black enough? As an example, Dennis Kucinich is just as far-left as Obama but he doesn't stand a chance. Why is that? Because he's not black enough? Is it that the democrats want to impress upon the voters, especially black voters, that they are the party of diversity? Shouldn't it be policy and experience that gets a candidate the attention that he deserves? If experience and policies were to be the major criteria for a candidate, then Dennis Kucinich has the same far-left agenda as Obama and with a lot more experience. So, why are democrats wasting their time with Obama? Is it the color of his skin? Is he more articulate than Kucinich?

[marron]

Its my contention that to even ask the question locates you squarely in the Democratic Party, the party of race obsession.

If you inquire about his positions on defense, tax policy, the constitutional role of government in America, its a fair chance you're a Republican. If you agonize over his ethnicity, its dead-bang certain you're a Dem.

[billybudd]

Obama is definitely a liberal, but how is he a "race pimp"?

[hosepipe]

[.. "Just because you're our colour doesn't make you our kind," the veteran racebaiter warned recently. ..]

Boy is that the truth.. Al spoke the truth...
What kind are you Al Sharpton?..

The answer could freak out everybody even the darkies..
Which does not include many many BLACK PEOPLE.. that are NOT black at all..
Many that are as white as they are black.. like Obama..
Parasites of affirmative action..

[headsonpikes]

I feel blue.

;^)

[Free ThinkerNY]

Osama Obama has giant chip on his shoulder. Many so-called black people who are of "mixed race" grow up feeling a need to prove to other blacks that they are one of them. Some are subjected to insults from black kids that they are not really black. To prove their blackness they adopt radical black nationalist views and express contempt for "white America." Louis Farrakhan for example, claims that white people are spawns of the devil, yet he is partly white. You could make a long list of famous black nationalists who are of mixed racial makeup.

[mel]

I hate to admit it, but Obama is articulate that is unless he is putting on phony accent as he did for his announcement.

[RushingWater]

His white mother brought him up while his black father hit the road.

Still moving up!

Uh, you would have to have seen SNL last Sat. night.

[Bommer]

In policy terms, it was nonsense. For Barack Obama, it is probably enough: if you feel black, you are.

"For me it's worse! I'm a half black failure of a liberal Democrap trapped in delerium of a great White Republican! Damn I hate being a legend in my own mind!"

[Uncle Miltie]

Sounds like the Libs want to re-instate the paper bag rule.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

In the Federal Government, ethnicity is determined by the individual. If an individual believes that they have native American or some other minority ancestry, they simply fill out a form and are identified as such.

[syriacus]

Barack has had little sympathy for either the unborn or the Shi'ites. Both groups have been "savaged," tortured, dismembered, and murdered.

Barack is no Abe Lincoln, either.

It's apparent that he would have said, in 1861, "Civil Wars are dumb. If the South wants Fort Sumter, let them keep it."

[GMMAC]

If "race pimp" can be defined as one using his/her race in an attempt to gain an advantage - electoral or whatever - which likely would otherwise be unavailable to them, Obama fills the bill. Although, with his Harvard background, etc. he certainly goes about it with considerably more subtlety than a more typical old school inner-city race-baiter like Al Sharpton.

Given, in most respects he's arguably got less going for him which would serve to justify a run for the Presidency than John Edwards had in 2004 & yet is generally taken far more seriously, indicates it for him at least to some extent works.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The New York Times ran an interesting article the other day on the growing trend among American blacks to refuse to identify as such on the census form, on the grounds that the very concept of belonging to "a race" was rooted in disturbing notions of racial purity.

About time.