Is it accurate to describe Obama as an African American? It seems to me that he uniquely qualifies to be called an American African. His father did not share the experiences of American blacks. In fact my brother said yesterday that he had more in common with Obama than most blacks. Asked what he had in common he said a white mother.
There is no such thing as an African-American. Either you are American or African. Having dual citizenship would have ruled him out for the presidency.
Actually, “African American” as it has generally been used in the US means the descendant of Africans brought here as slaves. African Americans are from families that have been here for more than 200 years in most cases.
They’re not the children of wandering white hippies and foreign born African graduate students, as Bambi was. So in my mind, he doesn’t qualify as a real “African American.”
That’s one of his problems, btw. He’s a sociopath looking for an identity, and he latched onto the “African American” thing because it was convenient, brought him built in acceptance, and gave him a lot of power. What more could a sociopath want?
Not at all.
I don’t know if you listened to Rick Warren yesterday day, but he said in his speech yesterday before inauguration that 0bama was the son of an African immigrant. The 0’s father never immigrated here. All he did was go to College here in the States and then went back to his country Kenya