Obama: "African Americans Are More Fundamentally Rooted In The American Experience"

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 20, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

President Obama tells Anderson Cooper on CNN: "That’s part of the African American experience. You are, in some ways, connected to this distant land, but on the other end, you’re about as American as it gets in some ways. African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on. It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation."

[BenLurkin]

What is he saying?

[noexcuses]

Huh????

[RinaseaofDs]

Guy should stick to the TOTUS. TOTUS is going to chew has ass when he gets back on AF1.

[abishai]

Then why still call them AFRICAN Americans?

[alexander_busek]

African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.

Glad to hear that Obama has now officially acknowledged that he is NOT an African-American.

Regards,

[bagman]

And when were Obama’s forebears enslaved and brought to these shores?

[Vasilli22]

huh?

[Sparko]

bttt

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation."

Apparently George Washington was a Soul Brother.

[bareford101]

the guy sounds illiterate. What history books did he read? Did he ever go to school anywhere that taught true American history? What a dumbbell

[pissant]

I guess all those whities and Indians are 2nd fiddle to the American experience?

[Boiling Pots]

That blacks are the “real Americans” and that whitey needs to stfu.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

[Adder]

Ditto

HUH????

Is this some inherited thing?

[Allegra]

ways. African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on...

But YOU do, Barry, don't you?

What's up with this rambling, anwyay? Did the teleprompter break again?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Does sly Stone know this ?

[Signalman]

Is a white guy from Johannesburg who emigrates to the U.S. and “African-American”.

[pissant]

At the same time his parents were marching in Selma and deciding to have a baby Barack, I guess.

[listenhillary]

“African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience”

So drop the African and call them Americans. That is what I call them unless I know they were born in Africa and have since become citizens. Or Kenya...