Wow! Barack Obama is African-American? Let's Be Honest About Race By Herman Cain

The New Voice ^ | February 18, 2008 | Herman Cain

[Sundog]

You might like to see the rest of Obama's father's relatives. That's his dad next to the boy with the red circle.

[LWalk18]

So a guy with a black father and white mother is “black?” If his father was white and his mother was black, would Obama be “white?”

The one drop rule has always determined racial classification in this country. Anyone with any known black ancestry is black in this country, and prior to the Civil Rights Movement they were subject to the same Jim Crow law- Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld segregation was 1/8 black and 7/8 white.

[debboo]

One of the men is wearing a Kentucky t-shirt. That’s strange.

[metesky]

You win! (so far)...
:O)

[Sioux-san]

I recall reading somewhere that the Salvation Army/GoodWill bundle up clothes donations and send them over to 3rd world countries. Then you can go to a local market and buy yourself a Harvard (or Kentucky) teeshirt that someone in America donated to charity.

[nascarnation]

You’re correct about the logo clothing donations.
Often in poor African coutries you will see children with USA sports logo clothing. Often they don’t have a clue what it means.

[Horkster]

Correct me if I’m wrong. I though Obammy was 1/2 white, 1/4 African, and 1/4 Arab.

It's more like Obama is 50% caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% arabic, and 6.25% african negro from his father's side, according to the article posted later.

That makes him 1/2 white, 7/16th arab, and 1/16th african.

Oh, and the 43.75% might be descended from muslim african slave traders. Can anyone else see the irony?

[sheik yerbouty]

“JihadoAmerican”

[sheik yerbouty]

if he catches the wind he can fly!

[swain_forkbeard]

My understanding is that everyone alive today shares a relatively recent African ancestry.

[cherry]

and Tiger Woods is African/Thai American or is that Thai/African American.....one of the two...

remember, if your skin is darker, or even sallow, or olive, you are African American, because as we all know, its the the skin color, not the parentage....

maybe its going to be like those blonde headed, white skinned "native Americans" who can prove that they are 1/8th native American so as to get all the bennies.....

its definately advantageous to be "something" other than white these days......

[cherry]

there was a notorious and horrible murder many years ago of a red headed "white" child by the child's white father.....her mother who had deceased was black....

the girl would never have been considered half black by skin color or by hair color, but some of her facial features were telling.....

its not about skin color.....race is a deeper than that......

[debboo]

Makes sense. I noticed it right away because I live in Kentucky.

[Young Werther]

Charlise Theron was the guest host on SNL. She was proud when she was granted US Citizenship. She then said, "I'm a proud African American!" since she was born in Cape Town the apellation is appropriate.

Isn't it interesting that Tiger Woods has eschewed that term!!!

Since the Mitochondrial DNA studies have shown that all us folks can trace our ancestry bact to "Eve" who lived in the Horn of Africa 100,000 years ago all of mankind is AFRICAN WHATEVER!

[Shade2]

“Arab” denotes an ethnicity, not a race. His father would generally be considered 100% racially “black”.

[Beckwith]

In modern America, only liberals notice or care about race. They are the last vestige of racism in the US.

Cultural Marxism depends upon racial politics to exist.

[ThePythonicCow]

I though Obammy was 1/2 white, 1/4 African, and 1/4 Arab.

As Horkster posted in Post #47, and as is explained at Kenneth E. Lamb. "Reading Between the Lines" Blog on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Obama is 1/2 White, 7/16 Arabic and 1/16 African. He descends from slave traders (Arabs selling Africans into slavery) on his fathers side, and as documented at freedomsenemies.com, he maintains close ties with and support for the Marxist Odinga who would overthrow the elected government of Kenya.

Speculation:

Perhaps it was Obama who unleashed the Reverand Wright controversy at this time. Thanks to the ugly fight he's having with Hillary now, he could do so easily enough and have the publicity presumed to be Hillary's dirty politics. One always wants to get ones dirty laundry out early in the game, when there is time to respond and "move on". And how better to cement in the American votes mind that you are African-American than such a controversy.

As he has done before, he is posing as an African-American. He's only 1/16 African-American. He's mostly white (from his mother, as we know) and Arab (from his father, but for one great-great-grandparent.)

Given America's great race guilt, especially amongst liberals, he will likely win the Democrat nomination, and might win the Presidency.

I doubt that even multi-cultural politically correct leftists are ready to put an Arab in the White House, however.