Wow, Obama sure got his facial featuers and ears from his White Grandfather.
Posted on 03/29/2007 6:50:58 AM PDT by meg88
Free Obama's White Grandmother Andy Martin Wednesday, March 28, 2007
CHICAGO -- If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha.
But America's media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his "granny," and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet.
Now, the Chicago Tribune reports "the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available."
Is she sick? Not apparently. Bedridden? Hospitalized? Not apparently. She is the "Prisoner of Obama," and of Obama's racist myth that he is "Black" and not "Black and White."
What a disgrace.
And like whimpering puppies the media do not protest, complain or demand access.
Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!
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Barack Obama is one of the most racist politicians in America today. And we let him get away with it. We are afraid to confront Obama's reality, so we pretend that reality is not there, even though it is staring us in the face. Anyone remember "Miss Lillian?" Or Barbara Bush? Or Bill Clinton's mom, drinking, gambling card-playing gal that she was?
Noone else but Obama could get away with pretending that his paternal grandfather's second or third or fourth wife was his "granny" when she wasn't.
Maybe that's the core of the antipathy between grandson and grandmother. Maybe that's why Obama's white grandmother is locked in purdah. She is offended that Obambi shamelessly highlights his black relatives in Kenya and, equally shamelessly, pretends his white relatives in Hawaii who actually raised him do not exist. It would hurt me.
No one could get away with pretending his white grandmother didn't exist except a media witch doctor such as Obama.
I have been attacking Obama for months because of his racist exclusion of his white relatives from the campaign trail.
We finally smoked out a picture of Obama's sister in the Chicago Tribune. She had said she was his "adviser" but refused to be photographed. Did she plan to enter the White house with a paper sack over her head?
But the "segregation" of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen.
Mrs. Dunham lives alone in the same apartment where she has lived for many years. Thus, it is reasonable to assume she is not incapacitated or an invalid.
Granny Dunham told the New York Times she was not well enough to speak, but in reality the Obama campaign maintains Stalinist "control" over potential interviewees. Obama's minions tried to control access to Obama's friend who was recently released from prison. Since he became a candidate for U.S. Senator, Obama has locked his white relative away in his racist closet.
Madelyn Dunham raised Barry Obama. It was probably her money that got him admitted to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii and paid his fees. Her efforts were formative, perhaps even more so than those of Obama's mother Ann, Madelyn's daughter. And yet Madelyn is being hidden away.
All because she is white and Barry Obama is a "black" candidate for president.
What a lie. What hypocrisy. What cowardice. And this man wants to sit in the Oval Office?
Ironically, locking Madelyn away is going to hurt Obama more with African-Americans than with whites. Whites delight in drinking Obama's Kool-Aid. Reason and reality will only gradually descend on them.
But blacks are a lot smarter than whites when it comes to slights, because they have experienced racial slights all their lives. Blacks know who Obama is, and they know how he is trying to "pass" and ignore his past.
During the decade when crack devastated the African-American community it was the "Black Grannies" who were and are the backbone of the community. These grandmothers helped stabilize disintegrating families ravaged by drugs. Black grannies will not like the fact that their white counterpart is being treated badly by Obama.
Black and white grandmothers? My guess is they will stick together on this one. They will be offended by the way Obama is treating the woman who really raised him and was the stabilizing factor in his life, Madelyn Dunham.
I repeat: Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!
Chicago-based Internet journalist, broadcaster and critic Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of ContrarianCommentary.
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I you live in the USA you should know about the one drop rule in our country. The one-drop rule is an historical colloquial term in the United States that holds that a person with any trace of sub-Saharan ancestry (however small or invisible) cannot be considered white[1] and so unless the person has an alternative non-white ancestry that he or she can claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, Australian aboriginal, the person must be considered black.
This notion of invisible/intangible membership in a “racial” group has seldom been applied to people of Native American ancestry (see Race in the United States for details). The concept has been largely applied to those of black African ancestry.
Read One Drop - Bliss Broyard - New York Times
His Grandmother is elderly and ill. “I am not giving any interviews,” Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, curtly interjected when a reporter phoned. “I am in poor health.”
The one-drop rule,” which defines as black a person with as little as a single drop of “black blood.” This notion derives from a long discredited belief that each race had its own blood type, which was correlated with physical appearance and social behavior. The antebellum South promoted the rule as a way of enlarging the slave population with the children of slave holders. By the nineteen-twenties, in Jim Crow America the one- drop rule was well established as the law of the land. It still is, according to a United States Supreme Court decision as late as 1986, which refused to review a lower court’s ruling that a Louisiana woman whose great-great-great-great-grandmother had been the mistress of a French planter was black—even though that proportion of her ancestry amounted to no more than three thirty- seconds of her genetic heritage. “We are the only country in the world that applies the one-drop rule, and the only group that the one-drop rule applies to is people of African descent,”
I was making a somewhat joking remark. If you look at the date of my remark, you would notice that several contemporary articles were asking if Obama were black enough. I reversed the old phrase about “passing for white”. In the era of the “one drop rule” it was not uncommon for people with African ancestry who looked white to deny their African ancestry and “pass for white” and even marry whites and have children.
Despite the one-drop rule being held illegal (ever since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 overturned the Virginia Racial Integrity Act), as recently as 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a decision by the federal Office for Dispute Resolution to refuse to hear a case attacking Louisiana’s "racial" classification criteria as applied to Susie Phipps (479 U.S. 1002) (In 1985, the fair-complexioned Phipps had checked "White" on her passport application. It was denied because, decades before on her birth certificate, a midwife had checked "colored" for one of her parents. Phipps sued, testifying that "this classification came as a shock, since she had always thought she was White, had lived as White, had had twice married as White." 479 So. 2d 369). In addition, several authors and journalists have found it very profitable to "out" as black famous historical mulattoes and whites, who were regarded as white in their society, who self-identified as such, and who were culturally European-American, merely because they acknowledged having (often slight) African ancestry (Anatole Broyard, Patrick Francis Healy, Michael Morris Healy, Jr., Sir Peter Ustinov, Calvin Clark Davis, John James Audubon, Mother Henriette Delille — a Louisiana Creole).
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were shown in the crowd at the NC/Duke basketball game last week...I swear in one of the shots, he was running his hands thru his hair...
Thanks for the information!
BTTT!
If Newsmax has any evidence to the contrary, they carefully avoided presenting it.
His father married at least four women, he didn’t even meet this “grandmother” until he chose to do so for his political benefit. She happened to be one of his father’s wives.
This thread makes me wonder if any previous Presidential contenders had a grandmother (or grandfather) living at the time of the campaign. I don’t think any President has had a living grandparent—very few have had a father who was still alive when they were Presidents (or had any inkling, when they died, that their sons would later be President).
Are you kidding? Old black woman are as racist as they come. They couldn't give two shiites about her.
Fascinating..... innocent mistake or part of the propaganda campaign? I still don’t quite get what the big concern of Obama’s campaign is about suppressing info on the white grandparents who truly raised him..??? Is it that he thinks Black America will not fully embrace him if he is not seen as “black enough”?? But surely everyone who knows anything about him knows he is bi-racial?? But he’s trying to pass more specifically as “first black president” material so he doesn’t want to be thought of as bi-racial?? I really don’t get it since it makes no difference at all to me, I truly think of people in terms of their ideas and character, not in terms of their skin color.... so I just “don’t get it” why there should be any concern from within his campaign to hide his white grandparents and practically erase them from his past????
Wow, Obama sure got his facial featuers and ears from his White Grandfather.
Will the real Barry White please stand up?
Time to wake this thread up.
BTTT
Or perhaps the wealthy Obamas are paying her off to stay out of sight. Hawaii is an expensive place if all you have is Social Security
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