I know I'll be attacked but

[allalone]

Obama is half white. his mom is white and so are his gramma and grampa on her side.
I have that famous 1 drop that makes me black in the south, so I think I can post on this.
Are we not supposed to notice it?

[gateley]

1. I don't understand your point. nt

[allalone]

5. some people never get the point of anything

[mtnsnake]

9. "some people never the the point of anything"?

:wtf:

[allalone]

15. well blow me, typing is shit

[mtnsnake]

19. That's an odd thing for a female to say. No wonder your worried about being "attacked" (snicker)

[allalone]

20. it's a british expression- try to get out more

[mtnsnake]

21. Oh. I forgot that "blow me" is unique to the British. I bloody well should've known (snicker)

Now, did you ever decide what you were trying to tell us in your post that we don't already know about Obama's ancestry?

[allalone]

25. my profile is a lie hahahahahah

[saltpoint]

2. It seems like that Dr. King guy gave a speech once... I think in Washington, DC...

something about the content of people's character...

[ErnestoG]

3. Who gives a shit?

[DesertFlower]

4. i'm not going to attack you.

of course, it's noticed, but it shouldn't matter.

[allalone]

7. well they sure jump up and down on the african aspect

[DesertFlower]

10. some people will.

like it or not, this country still has many "racists".

BTW. i'm an obama supporter.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Are you an Obama supporter? This isn't supposed to be about race!

So, his mother and maternal grandparents are Caucasian. So what?

[allalone]

8. so his father is black

so fucking what but that's all his supporters ever bring up.

[DesertFlower]

13. i'm his supporter and i don't

bring it up.

[1corona4u]

17. Yes, and Obama himself....

decided a long time ago, that he felt more comfortable on the black side, as opposed to the white. It's in his book, 'Dreams From My Father'.

[GoldieAZ49]

11. doesn't matter

I am not voting based on race or gender

I support Obama because I believe he is the right candidate at the right time to unite this country and lead us in a much better direction

[angie_love]

12. Odd

Odd OP. whats the point of this?

[mtnsnake]

14. So can you please tell us what your message is?

What are you trying to tell us here? Most people already know he has a white mother and a black father. Is there something besides that that you're trying to add? Just curious.

[allalone]

28. because every time a person sayd they don't like him

racist, racist. no, sometimes you just don't like a
person. there's something about him I don't like, ok?

[EffieBlack]

16. Obama didn't make the rules. White folks decided a long time ago that one drop made

him black. And he has considerably more than one drop. In fact, he's half-African - which probably makes him genetically "blacker" than most African-Americans descended from slaves.

Bottom line - Obama is, by all rules of society (at least the rules that applied until Obama came along) black, regardless of the fact that his mother was white. And he's not just black because of the "one drop" rule - he is clearly black in appearance. I'm sure that everytime he has faced discrimination as a black man in America, the people doing the discriminating weren't the least bit concerned about his mother's bloodline.

I can't help but be amused by the urgency with which some white folk are now claiming that Obama isn't REALLY black - he's BI-RACIAL . . . as if somehow that changes who he is and how he should identify himself - and, I suspect, gives whites a greater connection to him than they normally feel toward the average black person.

I remember a few months back when a story circulated that Obama had slaveowners in his family on his mother's side. And folks got all squiggly and worried that this might cause him a problem in the black community. I had to laugh at this since it showed how little some people know about American history in general and black folk, in particular. There are hardly ANY black people in America who do not have white blood and who don't have slaveowners in their family tree. The reason that most of us do not look purely African is that one or more of our great-great-great grandmothers was raped and impregnated by her white master. Hell, far from alienating Obama from the black community, this fact simply meant that he had one more thing in common with most other black people.

And I don't hear Obama walking around calling himself "bi-racial." (And thank God, he hasn't fallen prey to the Tiger Woods "Cablanasian" gobbledeegook). He considers himself black. Period. That should be good enough for everyone.

[LiberalHeart]

24. The bi-racial people I know are proud to be known as such...

...and so is Obama, who corrected an MTV interviewer when the interviewer called him black. Obama immediately told him he's bi-racial.

He's as white as he is black and as black as he is white. That's just a fact and if someone wants to make something negatively racial out of that, that person has a real bad problem.

[mtnsnake]

32. Yup, The "one drop rule" was started by racists in this country to keep the white race "pure"

and this racist rule is unique to the United States of course.

[HughMoran]

18. It's too bad that this still matters to people

It really shouldn't matter if he was a green Hindu transvestite.

[allalone]

22. denying half your heritage is a shitty

thing to do. gee, mom, sorry, you're just in the way of my ambition

[LiberalHeart]

26. I don't support Obama at all, but I do want to correct the notion that he denies his white heritage.

He does not do that.

[murielm99]

30. You said you would get attacked.

And you did.

Don't you know that you are not supposed to mention race AT ALL, unless you are Obama or one of his surrogates? Then you can yell about racism the minute someone says one wrong word or puts one foot wrong.

I don't think there was anything wrong with your question.

Maybe what the people in this thread are saying is that his white ancestors and relatives are not the issue. Most of our society only sees the black side. That is the side he has to explain. I believe he has discussed his white relatives, especially his mother.

He is in a unique position, one that I cannot begin to understand. He doesn't fit in either place, and his upbringing is not very typical.

[allalone]

23. btw, I haven't decided yet, but you people are making it easier

[angie_love]

29. ....

Umm............?????

[stillcool]

31. I'm glad you've found help...

in making your decision. BTW..the race shit has been pounded to hell and back. I guess it's not working anymore.

[donheld]

27. What the hell is your point?

:shrug: