Obama Not Universally Accepted By African Americans

Peter Penn

[Uncle Peter]

Not All African Americans Embrace Obama

Rev. James David Manning Presents An Alternative View of Senator Barack Hussein Obama

For all of the emotion coming from Pastor Manning's lips, everything he said was factually true, albeit personal. He actually spared Sen. Obama more humiliation by not discussing more important subjects.

He never spoke about Obama's connection to openly racist Minister Jeremiah Wright, or to an indicted real estate scammer Tony Rezko, or his endorsement by Lewis Farrakhan and The New Black Panther Party or his intimate association with a former fugitive bomber from The Weather Underground.

For a Post-Racial candidate whose entire platform is predicated on being race-neutral and uniting, it is troubling that he exhibits stunningly poor judgement by surrounding himself with and refusing to dis-associate himself from bigoted, xenophobic nationalists who preach Black Liberation Theology, which is unquestionably separatist.

Now we hear that his Passport records were breached. What motivated this intrusion? Why is the State Department interested in where Obama traveled abroad? What is he suspected of? What is Obama hiding now?

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

[mc5cents]

OK. Not all Afro-Americans but how about Black Americans?

[not2worry]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Clinton's little black book came out to find a contract worker at the State Department to hack into O's file.

It should get interesting when the culprit is found and his or her background is checked.

I wonder if the State Department could legally access a United States Citizen's passport if there was verifiable evidence that treason was in play or if an individual was suspected on sleeping with the enemy.

I had heard several months ago that Obama had secret meetings with Iran's Great One. The story just faded into the sunset.

[not2worry]

Not all Afro-Americans but how about Black Americans?

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Interestingly enough you never hear Americans calling themselves Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Mexican Americans, Latino Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans, etc., etc.

I haven’t visited any other Country where their citizens identify themselves by their ethnic origins.

[Lizavetta]

My mom is Danish and my dad is from South Carolina. What shall I call myself? Please help - I need a label by which I can gain an identity.

[reg45]

If only your dad were from Wisconsin. Then you could be a cheese danish.

[TexanToTheCore]

Danish Cracker?

[rintense]

Yeah, but Manning is equally offensive.

[HerrBlucher]

You are a Danosolina American!

[ottbmare]

True. My BFF is a black professional woman and she has no use for Obama. She regrets it, but she is conservative and is going to hold her nose and vote for McCain. Anything to keep a Democrat out of the White House. Other black friends feel the same way.

On the other hand, I have a black friend whose office is filled with pictures of Obama. He’s in seventh heaven about this candidacy. Then the other day I heard him complaining about his income taxes. I want to grab him by the lapels and say, What do you think your income tax return is going to look like when President Obama is shovelling 847 billion of your dollars to cure poverty in the rest of the world, you idiot?

[Wil H]

How does Obama claim to be “African-American” anyway?

His Father was African-American, his Mother was European-American, so he is Half American, quarter European, quarter African...

[Polybius]

My mom is Danish and my dad is from South Carolina. What shall I call myself?

Ethnicity is separate from nationality.

Joe DiMaggio was 100% American and 100% ethnically Italian.

Assuming he is not a carpetbagger, your father is 100% American but probably ethnically Southron to the core. If he is an "old" South Carolinian, he may further define himself ethnically as "Lowcountry" or a "Piedmonter".

Assuming that your mother knows an æbleskive from a hush puppy and knows that "æbleskiver" and not "æbleskivers" is the plural, she would still be ethnically Danish.

Once you are raised in California and your Southern relatives are shocked that you actually said to Aunt Holly when she offered you grits for breakfast, "What's a grit? Can I try just one of them?", then you have lost all ethnicity.

You then become

[Lizavetta]

My dad tried to do the grits thing a total of one or two times. Everyone was grossed out.

[Godwin1]

No, not universally. But 90 percent is pretty damn good.

[Polybius]

My dad tried to do the grits thing a total of one or two times. Everyone was grossed out.

Now look what you've done to Aunt Holly!!

Don't you DARE say anything like that to your Bedstemor about æbleskiver. ;-(

[Lizavetta]

Aebleskivers rock!

We ate them until two of our children were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. And turbo carb foods like aebleskivers are OUT.

[Levante]

“I haven’t visited any other Country where their citizens identify themselves by their ethnic origins.”

No sir.

Because, what little I learned from my travels, anyone outside of the US who tries that (i.e. Spanish-Moroccans, German-turks, etc.) tends to get their ass kicked...

[patriciamary]

99% of the black vote will go to Obama,plain & simple.

[LouAvul]

Not All African Americans Embrace Obama

Yeah, both of them.