If Obama can be “black”, I can be “other”. But I might want to be “black”. It appears there are some advantages to being “black”, and lots of people are choosing it today.
When Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, and whose father was one eighth African Negro but majority Arab, can tell us in his autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
Frankly, I never think of BHO as “black” until he brings it up, yet again. But recall the old warning that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a discussion. Just what does he mean by “black”?
When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”?
As these expressions of “black” pile up in the mind of the public, more and more will wake up to this truth: with respect to BHO being black: it is not about the racial characteristics he was born with, it is about the socialist ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is.
Ten of the current Congressional Black Caucus are in the list of 20 biggest spenders in Congress. So, black must be the new red. I guess I’ll become “other”. That should sit well with the liberals, who are so concerned with “otherism”.
If you can choose to be whatever "gender identity" you want I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to identify as whatever race you want, too.
It’s ironic that the far left is so preoccupied with who is or isn’t black because that is exactly what the old slave owners used to do. Slaves were valued at least in part by their degree of blackness. Full-blood africans were the least desirable. Then you had mulattos, quadroons, octoroons, and the lightest which was often referred to as a high yeller. I used to work with one of those, he had red hair and freckles.
If people of African decent would ever wake up and realize that the left is grading them out like eggs or potatoes, it would be the end or their undying loyalty to the democrat party.