The big question is WHY isn’t Obama running as a WHITE CANDIDATE?
After all, genetically, he’s 50% WHITE and 50% BLACK. Yet his PERSONAL CULTURE is more WHITE than BLACK as a result of his upbringing in a WHITE FAMILY and mostly affluent WHITE Hawaii neighborhood.
Therefore the essence of OBAMA (genes & culture) on balance, is more WHITE than BLACK. Culturally he has VERY LITTLE IN COMMON with the AMERICAN Blacks!!!
genetically, he’s 50% WHITE and 50% BLACK. Yet his PERSONAL CULTURE is more WHITE than BLACK as a result of his upbringing in a WHITE FAMILY and mostly affluent WHITE Hawaii neighborhood.
Therefore the essence of OBAMA (genes & culture) on balance, is more WHITE than BLACK. Culturally he has VERY LITTLE IN COMMON with the AMERICAN Blacks!!!
Well, he does share with too many blacks (and too many whites, nowadays) the misfortune of having grown up in a family which did not include his biological father.But you are right in that his mother was white. Of course, she was also a liberal, and that's true of most blacks as well. But anyone with "a drop of" black genetic heritage will be considered "black." And benefit from the solidarity of others similarly categorized. Sowell has pointed out that American blacks consider Jamaican blacks to be "black Jews" because, tho racially indistinguishable from their American cousins, they are culturally distinct and have an entrepreneurial mindset. Colin Powell comes from a family of Jamaican immigrants, and that helps explain why he's more accepting of, and acceptable to, mainstream American culture than your typical "inner city" black is.