let's spawn an obamma-nation. i'm voting by race.

[quixdraw]

is obamma black or white? isn't he 50/50? so why do we call him black as opposed to white? is it a glass half full/half empty thing?
i don't want to vote for obamma because he's black. i'm just tired of voting for white guys- but if obamma is really as white as he is black...??
that's my quandry.
disclaimer- i'm not enthused by either candidate really. i've got no pony in this race- [or burro- although babalooie has expressed aspirations].

[Captain Jack]

Obama is mulatto (spelling?). But black people are voting for him because he is black. See the lines on television of all those people in Florida and in other states? See all those people in his rallies? Mostly black.

[itsthescizzy]

and old white haired rich people are voting for mccain, if they live to see nov. 4th.

some places like brazil consider half white/black people as white.

[Brickboy240]

Obama threw his "whiteness" under the bus a long time ago. It was not helping him in Chicago inner city political circles. To those leftys, white people were the cause of all their problems.

I don't really understand why Obama hates his white side. Certainly, he and his have benefitted greatly from actions and assistance of many white people. Why such disdain for a race of people that has largely led to his success? It wasn't like Obama was a slave or even the descendant of a slave. He also did not grow up in the so-called racist South, either. He truly has no reason to dislike whitey like he does.

You can tell that Obama struggles with this one alot. While he was a community organizer and IL Senator, I am pretty sure that it was always cool to hate whitey. While running for President...well...the hate-whitey thing has to be suppressed, because he knows that without the votes of many guilt-ridden white leftys...he is not going to make it.

Right under his socialist economic views...this is the next biggest problem I have with this guy. It is hard to separate Obama from his obvious anti-white past. I don't know how his white supporters look past this. How can one vote for a person that spent a large part of his past, associating with groups and people that hate your race? Its totally bizarre.

- Brickboy240

[jmichna]

Per Michelle Malkin:

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
By Michelle Malkin • October 30, 2008 10:26 AM

Sigh.

Obama suppporter Charles Ogletree, Harvard professor, says that even if you vote for Obama, you’re still a raaaaaaaaaaaacist!
Ogletree is rumored to be Obama’s pick for Assistant AG in charge of civil rights.
We’re Screwed ‘08!
Posted in: Barack Obama, Race relations

From OpenMarket.org:

You’re Still A Racist, Obama Advisor Says
Posted by Hans Bader

Even if you vote for Obama, you’re still probably a racist, according to Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, in his remarks at a recent panel discussion at my alma mater. Ogletree, Obama’s top advisor on race issues, explains that since Obama is “biracial,” his election won’t prove that racism has receded. White America won’t vote for blacks, Ogletree argues, and Obama’s election is possible only because he’s partly white. The ABA Journal predicts that Ogletree, who has long advocated race-based reparations, will be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division during the Obama administration.

Legal commentator Walter Olson notes that Ogletree has attracted controversy over his association with Al Sharpton and history of plagiarism.
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So... it really doesn't make a difference if the glass is half-empty, or the glass is half-full... still not playing with a "full glass" (to badly mix the metaphors )

[Delija]

Brickboy,

I always considered you one of the more intelligent and thoughtful people here. Still think you are intelligent, but not so sure about how thoughtful you are.

Why? Because your posts have become so predictable it's almost as if anyone who has read a half dozen of them could write the rest for you. Not quite as bad (or simple-minded) as say those of "yeahYeah", but getting too close for comfort.

I don't remember the last time you have not used the term "lefty" (or "lefties") in a post. Which would be fine, except you don't give the word any context (other than "socialist", which is another term you use in virtually every post).

This time, you made the very rare exception and forget to throw in the term "class warfare", but I'm sure it was an oversight.

You used the word "hate" so many times I thought I was reading an "XDFunny" post.

You tell us about how it is "cool to hate 'whitey' " in Chicago, but have you ever actually heard Obama use the word? Ever? In any context?

As a racial "mongrel" myself, I take offense (not a lot, because I'm used to it) at the allusions to mixed race. Besides, it's all pretty much BS. When Mohamed Ali went to Africa the first time he said he was amazed at how black the skin of the natives was. Unlike America, they did not have 400 years or so of interracial breeding like we did.

You say you are fair skinned and blue eyed. Well, me too. But in my case I know it's a matter of genetic chance. My immediate family has mostly dark skin and dark eyes. My dad's brother is somewhat Asian looking and his daughters (my first cousins) even more so. In fact the older of the two sisters has a birthmark common to most Mongols. "Rape and plunder" was the way military victories were celebrated through most of history. Leaving very little (if any) "pure blood" anything. People are not dogs, we don't have pedigrees. Not even fair haired Swedes.

Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes? Does it matter?

I never would have guessed you have such deep underlying perceptions of racial significance.


"Right under his socialist economic views...this is the next biggest problem I have with this guy. It is hard to separate Obama from his obvious anti-white past. I don't know how his white supporters look past this. How can one vote for a person that spent a large part of his past, associating with groups and people that hate your race?"

"Anti white past"? This is based on what? Rev. Wright? Anything else? Yesterday I heard Rush Limbaugh carrying on about how Farrakhan prefers Obama....as if Obama has sought out his "endorsement". If Charles Manson endorsed McCain, would that in any way be a reflection on McCain? Can anyone have contol of what another says or thinks of them?



What DIDN'T you cover here? He's a "socialist", you have a major "problem" with his race. You "don't know how his white supporters look past (blah, blah, blah). You say the guy spent "a large part of his past associating with groups and people that "HATE" your race" (I'm obviously no genius, but I can't make any sense at all as to what this even means).

Whatever......

I think you lost me when you explained how Ivy League graduates were (in your experience) less educated (or whatever your words were) than those who went to school at Podunk Community College.

Peace,
D.