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Originally Posted by jsarno
There was a guy on CNN (a black man, can't remember his name cause I saw him in the Phoenix airport back in late January) that said that there just isn't the white racism in the world that people think. I tend to believe him. Sure it still exists in certain areas...there are always racists about every race, but overall it's just not there like it used to be. Maybe it's due to P.C., maybe it's due to awareness...who knows. But white people are just not as racist as people think.
You do have to ask yourself why Obama is getting well over 90% of the black votes, but yet across the country, there is no real correlation of who the white people are voting for. If white people were THAT racist, then Hilary would be running away with most states.
ps- I could safely assume that a lot of people do not in fact know that he is part white, and do not in fact know his middle name is Hussien. Most of you guys in the DC area know this stuff well cause politics are shoved down your throat 24/7. The rest of the world is not as educated (as a whole) when it comes to politics.
I never said he wasn't "black enough". Just that he's not black. Just like Tiger Woods is not black.
Be very careful as to how you lump your assumptions because the "majority" of people believe it.
The majority of older Christians believe that evolution is not true.
The majority of the population used to believe the world was flat.
The majority of scientists believed the atom was the smallest thing in the world.
Kind of reminds me of the Lincoln quote:
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
The majority is not always right.
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Geez. What is he if he ISN'T Black? Leopard print?
As soon as there's a bi-racial baby, everyone wants to try to tell them how they should identify themselves. If Obama wants to identify himself as a Black male, fine. Honestly the majority of bi-racial kids I knew lumped themselves into the Black category, which was fine. And those that didn't try to identify with a race.. that was fine as well.
I think people need to stop trying to say if you aren't 100% Black, then you aren't black or if you aren't 100% white, then you aren't white. That's why so many bi-racial kids always have such a hard time growing up.
My family tends to be staunch against "racial-mixing" and after this, I can see why. (Though I don't really give a damn and I'll continue to enjoy dating outside of my race
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It's kinda like that episode of Family Guy, where Stewie was conceived by Nate Griffin and Lois LauraBushCheneyPewterschmit and Stewie says something on the order of, "Since I'm half black and half white, now I'll be accepted by both races."
In the end, nobody's really going to accept you, racially. Especially when people aren't as colorblind as they think.