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.
Posted on 02/21/2008 9:42:57 AM PST by K-oneTexas
Wow! Barack Obama is African-American? Let's Be Honest About Race By Herman Cain
February 18, 2008
A few weeks ago, I heard Dick Morris, former advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton, say in an interview that if Hillary falls behind Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary elections, then Hillary's campaign would play the "race card". Not directly, but through her surrogates.
Dah dah! After last Tuesday's primaries, Barack Obama took the lead over Hillary Clinton in delegate votes for the first time in the Democratic presidential nominating contest. On Wednesday, a quote by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat who supports Clinton, appeared in the media:
"You've got conservative whites here (Pennsylvania), and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate."
Wow! I didn't know Barack Obama was African-American. I must have been living in a cave for the past year. And I am sure millions of voters may not have given much thought to Obama's race, but they might now!
I first saw the quote on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday, and could not believe that Dick Morris's prediction would materialize so quickly. Coincidentally, the Pennsylvania primary is on April 22. That's about two months for voters in Pennsylvania to ponder Gov. Rendell's comment. It may not matter by then, but it could matter at the Democratic National Convention next August or in the general election in November.
Let's be honest about race.
Populist race hustlers such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have been exposed for their hypocrisy time and time again. Selective media outrage over racially insensitive comments is not even a debate. But when most of us believe we have come so far from civil rights to equal rights to equal opportunity, the Democratic establishment candidate plays the race card to remind some people of old attitudes.
Let's be clear. Barack Obama is not my presidential candidate of choice. My intent is to remind people how easily it is for their attitudes to be tainted and distracted for someone else's quest for political power.
This country is only temporarily color blind, until someone uses the power of suggestion to bring race from the back of the bus of someone's consciousness to the front of the bus. The good news is that only a small percentage of people, black and white, fall for this age-old psychological tactic.
Gov. Rendell's comment was not racist, but it was racial. And for some people, a racial comment is all that is required to stir up racist feelings. Or at a minimum, it is enough to cause someone to hesitate when they get ready to cast their vote for the next president of the United States of America.
Some people will always have racially inspired motives for their actions. But I firmly believe that most people have gotten past those attitudes. This is not based on a poll or survey or media sound bite. This is based on the personal experiences of my successful career in corporate America, and my impressive second place finish in the 2004 Georgia Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
I am black, and I did say I ran as a Republican in Georgia.
This country has a lot of strengths. But one of its greatest strengths is its ability to change for the better. And no matter how much we move forward, there will always be some people who will try to stir the attitudes of the past.
Now let's get back to the presidential race.
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.
One of the men is wearing a Kentucky t-shirt. That’s strange.
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.
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.
“JihadoAmerican”
if he catches the wind he can fly!
My understanding is that everyone alive today shares a relatively recent African ancestry.
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......
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......
Makes sense. I noticed it right away because I live in Kentucky.
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!
“Arab” denotes an ethnicity, not a race. His father would generally be considered 100% racially “black”.
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.
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