I was always under the impression that she was very close to her mom. When she won the Academy Award, her mother was prominently seated in the front of the auditorium and, through her tears, HB acknowledged her. It was touching.
Posted on 03/29/2007 6:50:58 AM PDT by meg88
OMG... his mother the in HS yearbook looks like a female Kerry!!!
The people complaining that the media is "lying" by calling Sarah Hussein Obama Barack's "grandmother" are actually the ones who are saying that their view and terminology for family is the only valid view and the media should identify his family by their standards. You are directing your complaints to the wrong person.
If Obama identifies her as his grandmother, she's his grandmother. If a man identifies his adoptive mother's step father as his grandfather, that's his grandfather. Family bonds don't need special qualifiers and aren't trivial just because they don't come from blood. A family in which no children are related to each other or their parents is still a family full of brothers and sisters with a mother and a father. And no one should be chastized for excluding "steps" and "adoptives".
Where is the information that proves this is Obama's idea?
How do we know whether or not Obama's white relatives want to be a part of his campaign anyway?
Invectives are slung, based on opinion, with nothing to support them.
Certainly, I dont want Obama to be President, but this article smacks of what you can find any day on DU or Kos.
Totally unfair and beneath this forum.
Uh, he has to have two. But she'd presumably be the only one living.
A stepfather who never raised the child and only became a stepfather after the child was grown, would not be a "real father" no.
Historically, white against black racism was targeted at anyone who had any black blood. Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson was only 1/8 black, yet the laws of Jim Crow applied to him just as much as if he were 100% black. A white person who hated blacks, would, in all likelihood, refuse to vote for Obama, white mother or no white mother. I don't think that being only 1/2 or 1/4 black makes a difference to whites- the few who are still racist would hate him anyway and the majority who are not would not care about the color of his skin. Of course, being non-white I can only speculate.
For blacks, in general, oftentimes someone who is half black and half white is looked at with a degree of suspicion. There is a fear that someone who is only half black will run away from their blackness, so there is a lot of pressure placed on someone like Obama to associate with blacks and disassociate from whites in order to be accepted by the "black community". Contrary to the last lines of this article, sadly I think that if Obama associated mostly with his white grandma he would have an even harder time gaining black support. It is black racism and insecurity that fuels this attitude, IMO, but it is the current reality.
I was always under the impression that she was very close to her mom. When she won the Academy Award, her mother was prominently seated in the front of the auditorium and, through her tears, HB acknowledged her. It was touching.
"That's because he's trying to pass for black"
Unless it's near March 17th, then he hauls out the bones of his Irish great-great grandfather...
My mistake then, must've confused her with someone else.
Or the black mother of his son.
LOL
we Irish can scoff at Barry Obammy just as easily as we do at the scummy Kennedys.........
Well. . .he did successfully hide his 'black son'. . .if one is inclined to believe he has one. . .
Would if they could. . .they would beat a path to her door. . .
What a beautiful smile his grandma has. And yes, he does very much resemble his very white grandpa.
Wonder if Andy forgot about Connie Chung's
. . . “just whisper it to me, just between you and me,” interview with Newt's Mother. . .
The answer may be in another question. . .did they retract their error and offer the correct id of person in picture. . .or offer one of his 'real' Grandmother? (. . .probably we can guess the answer in one try. . .)
My respect for this guy just dropped from slim to none. If he is not enough of a man to show public gratitude to those who raised him and gave him the leg up that got him where he is, then he's not man enough to do the right thing as president.
It would disenfranchise more black voters than white. . .Not 'going there' is the better political calculation.
Hardly. She cried because ~as she said~ she was the first African American actress to win the Best Actress award.
With tears streaming down her face and gasping for breath, Berry dedicated her award to all the African-American women who had struggled before her to make their way in Hollywood.
"This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened," she said.
BBC News
It was way back in 2002, but I'm trying to remember if she even ~acknowledged~ her mother. I remember at the time thinking she was gushing about her paternal heritage while all along it was her white mother in the audience, not her absentee father.
Say what you like about Denzel Washington, but his acceptance speech was much more classy. He acknowledged Sidney Portier, but didn't gush about it.
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