Posted on 05/23/2009 3:48:39 AM PDT by Scanian
received an email from a black man who was attempting to convince me that, though I am completely black, I have no experience growing up black in America. The bulk of his theory on my ‘blackness' was based on the fact that I constantly lampoon Obama in my blog. He counseled me to embrace Obama, as Obama could help me to "rediscover the black experience." He warned that "whites would never see me, as I see me."
Touting Obama as the poster child for blackness is a ridiculous notion. Further, the idea that Obama can teach me "blackness" is equally ridiculous. Unlike me, Obama is only half-black -- as much white, as he is black. Obama's formative years were spent mostly in the white world. He was raised by his white grandparents in upper middle-class lifestyle. He attended expensive mostly white private schools in his youth, his education culminating with Harvard.
Like Obama, I am a product of a father who abandoned me. My story departs with Obama in that my father spent most of his adult life incarcerated, bouncing in and out of my life mainly by phone. When my father wasn't incarcerated, he was strung out -- chemically dependent -- his drugs of choice being alcohol (a vice he inherited from his father, making me a carrier as well) and crack cocaine (an acquired addiction). Surely a father like this qualifies me for the black condition?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bingo.
The hustlers speak of “healing racism”. But, who keeps picking at the scab?
Trapped inside your own skin. Sounds more like a mental disease.
Great article! One of the thing that annoys me most about Obama is that he is trying to horn in on the American black experience, about which he knows nothing. He’s the child of a well-off leftist white hippie and a Muslim-Marxist foreign graduate student, who has simply managed to parlay what looks like a suntan into a crucial component of this giant fiction that is his life.
Glad you liked the post.
...I like this guy.
A man who refuses to be just a color.
ping for later enjoyment
Thanks for posting this excellent article with Texas roots.
Good article catch/post - - I heard Alan Keyes speaking to this exact point on the radio the other day. Saying Obama is any part of the “black American experience” is miles beyond stupid...
What possible reason would I have for wanting to think like a feminist or a black person if that would mean I would be limited to a narrow, exclusionary point of view? I prefer to think freely, to imagine, to empathize with others, not to limit myself to a racial or sexual stereotype.
Excellent article. Thanks for the introduction - I’m going to watch this gentleman’s blog with interest.
Black Experience? The Jimi Hendrix Experience!....oooops-They were 2/3rd’s white also.
My buddy of several years at work, Manny and I were talking light politics with some other guys one day. Manny's either mulatto or light black, but I just think of him as Manny. Making a casual point, he start saying "As a black man, I..."
I put my hand on his shoulder and said "When did that happen?"
The coffee stains from the laughter are still on the wall.
W O W!!! The author of this piece has laid it all out for all the race baiters out there! BHO decided to become black during college, to take advantage of the victimhood status and to advance his career-he said so on this autobiographies.
Now, turning to Michele Obama, if you read any of the hundreds of magazine interviews or ever heard her speeches, you will find a common trait: she is always claiming that “such and such person/college/employer/institution/entity “...did not REACH OUT TO ME”, or “...MADE AN EFFORT to accomodate my needs.” Has anyone read her Master’s Thesis?
This woman thinks that just because she is black, the whole world needs to cater to her. Even her employer at the Chicago hospital where she worked said in an interview (source?) that she was always complaining. Not to mention she was not proud of the country that allowed her to ride the affirmative action wave all the way to the top, until, of course, her baby’s daddy (her words-not mine) became President. What a joke.
B HUSSEIN Obama would never, I repeat NEVER turned out the way he is had it not been for the fact that he was raised by his white grandparents. P E R I O D. Now, you tell that to the next person that wants to bring up BHO’s blackness. Of course, they will call you racist-so what?
And yes, his Marxist father, son of a tribal slave holder, and grandson of a revolutionary whom was tortured by the British (which is why BHO hates the Brits) was NOT an “immigrant” as he keeps affirming in all his speeches since the campaign. That’s an outright lie! But of course, the MAM will not call him on it. If Michele, BHO, Sharpton, and those types have it soo bad here, let them go back totheir ancestral land (bet you not one of them, except BHO knows where that is) and see if their life story would be anything like it is now had they been raised in a slum in Kenya.
To this date, I do not understand race relations in this country, and the mantra of white guilt . I grew up overseas (Caribbean) where we have 1,000 skin colors and races, but we all have the SAME culture and the SAME language. Maybe that’s what is wrong with the USA for a long time now-NO COMMON SENSE OF PURPOSE!
Thanks. I’m going to do the same!
Of course the black experience has also caused blacks who are experiencing it to never admit that.
It should hence be renamed "experiencing whitey".
Some people are just so afraid of being perceived as a race or group traitor—by people who wouldn’t pee on them if they were on fire.
ML/NJ
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