On Biden And Obama (If Biden was wrong, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would already be president)

Post Chronicale ^ | Feb. 11th, 2007 | Jonathan David Morris

[Rodney Kings Brain]

Senator Joe Biden shot his presidential campaign squarely in the foot recently when he referred to fellow senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

It's interesting how people are all up in arms about this comment the same week we're celebrating the first black head coach to win a Super Bowl. The only reason Biden's remarks made people uncomfortable is because they happen to be true.

No one wants to hear this, because everyone wants to believe a black man can become president while looking, talking, and acting like a black man. Maybe that will be so in the year 2044. However, it isn't true now, and most of us know this.

When Biden said Barack Obama was "mainstream" and "nice-looking," he was basically saying Obama is acceptable to white people. No one wants this to matter, but face it: It has to. Whites are the voting majority.

[TeenagedConservative]

ROFL.

The author of this piece is basically saying that "talking like a black man" is being inarticulate.

[Rodney Kings Brain]

What else can he say? Remember, it's racist to tell a black man that he IS articulate.

[Vigilanteman]

Biden didn't even consider an authentic African-American who ran for president in 2000 and even managed to get 26% of the primary vote in a western state with virtually no African-American population.

He was also I guy I could support enthusiastically. His name was Alan Keyes.

[Rodney Kings Brain]

You are correct and Biden's comments would most definitely apply to Keyes. I can only assume that BIden forgot about him or didn't consider him a serious contender. No one marketed Keyes the way Obama has been marketed which is a shame because I think Keyes is the better candidate.

[Vigilanteman]

Keyes also has something on his resume besides:

Stand-out law-student
Good speaker
Affirmative action professor based on black sperm donor
community activist
Lamestream media idol

[BallyBill]

Unfortunately I'm unable to comment because of my skin colour.

[Graybeard58]

I live in Illinois and I voted for Alan Keyes and we got osama obama. The Keyes bashing that went on here was unbelievable. Carpetbagger being the least charge against Keyes.

Absolutely anything negative that could be said about Keyes was said, even if it were all true, he's still infinately better that obama.

[I see my hands]

To: Jonathan David Morris

"everyone wants to believe a black man can become president while looking, talking, and acting like a black man"

I don't want to believe. I couldn't care less. The concept never occurred to me.

Perhaps you're projecting. How do you feel about different expressions of blackness?

I know it's fiction but just for a baseline.. Was David Palmer looking, talking, and acting enough like a black man for your satisfaction?

[TeenagedConservative]

He could tell the truth and say that the majority of African-Americans speak in a manner that is considered inarticulate by these standards.

But I forgot, he wants to keep his job.

[IIntense]

He could tell the truth...and consider the fact that Obama is a white man! One-half of his parentage is of the white race, so when is society going to give up the fabrication of determining one's race, based on whether a person has 1/16th, or 1/32nd (whatever the hell the fraction is nowadays) of the black race in his/her background.

Their white ancestry is completely ignored, as though it doesn't exist.

There is no room for logic here...the whole theory is based on racial prejudice.

Lest anyone might wonder, both my parents, all my grandparents, and their predecessors belong to the white race.

[Vigilanteman]

consider the fact that Obama is a white man! One-half of his parentage is of the white race . . .

Actually, it is higher than that. His black blood is solely due to his sperm donor. I don't think you can call the man who abandoned him and his mother at age 2 a father.

When his mother remarried, he was raised in Indonesia. His step-father was a Muslim supremicist, but not black. When that didn't work out, it was off to Hawaii to be raised by mama's rich white parents and attend a preppy finishing school. Neither of which are black credentials.

[IIntense]

I don't think you can call the man...a father.

Not to argue with you but, if his biological father belongs to the black (Negro) race, B. Obama is part black.

He's also part white. Again, why are those of mixed race considered black?