I’m certainly no defender of Barack Obama’s and agree about why he latched onto Wright, etc., but millions of Americans who are half-black and half-white have called themselves black for a long time without having a political agenda. And the reality is that most of these persons have had blackness “thrust upon them” for centuries. These days some would prefer to be called mixed raced, others not.
However, you can’t make me believe that had Barack Obama arrived on the political scene and simply said that he was white *when asked* that many white people would not have raised the BS flag. (Black people would have simply pointed and laughed because he looks like one of our cousins). And then, when it was discovered that his father was a black African, that both whites and blacks would not have been screaming the word “fraud” at the top of their lungs.
One cannot have it both ways.
BTW, my father is from the same tribe as Obama’s father and I have similar parental circumstances. I call myself black also and no one turns a hair because my mom has some black ancestry, along with white and American Indian ancestry–like almost every other black American.
I mention the foregoing for those who ahistorically keep harping on this racial breakdown issue. One wonders where the line is drawn, that is, how much ancestry should one have before one is called one race or the other? The line keeps moving.
If you think that this is a stupid question and a stupid issue, then you’re getting my point.
As for the rest, carry on.
