What does "half-black" have to do with the point he's making?
Blacks have never liked “half-blacks”, uless they are 100% Marxists. Ask what they call “half-black” conservatives?
I'm not one to see racism around every corner but that phrase being thrown in there has no revelance and smacks of it.
It's called racism... I have no problem disliking Obama for a long list of reasons unrelated to his genetic makeup.
Just a hunch here, but I don't think the author is being racist. It's a rhetorical device: he goes from "half-black" to "100%" (Marxist).
Now I could be wrong — he may be a racist — but nevertheless it is a rhetorical play on words. And probably ill-advised.
Well, I guess he could have went with the much more politically correct term, 'mulatto'.
I think the phrase was intended to contrast the half with the 100%, not imply anything negative as to Barry-O’s racial makeup,
I read it like saying, “He may be only half-black, but he’s 100% Marxist.”
I note that the “he’s not ‘black’ enough argument has been a prior point levvied against Barry-O from some on the Left, and if that’s a remark at all tinged with racism, it is a “reverse” sort of racism of a “black on half-white” nature, not the white-on-black variety that is the Left’s usual favorite. The bottom line on that, though, is that Barry-O’s being half-black has been fronted as a strike against Obama by some on the Left, not by Conservatives.
So, I’d reword the phrase something like this:
“Being half-black may make him ‘not black enough’ for some Americans, but being 100% Marxist makes him too far left for any Americans.”