Don't people understand after the Civil War how 100 years of "Jim Crow" policies affected his family?

Finally we can have a black man that fully embodies the struggle and triumph of black people in America.

erm..... So was this one of those sarcasm joke threads or are you bieng serious ?

I get a funny feeling you were sersious

I thought his family was still in Africa and that he had no slave ancestors.
Are you saying that we should love him because he is black and because blacks suffered after the Civil War?

I am not clear on what you mean.

Obama's Black? That would be news to me. Just because one of his parents was African doesn't quite qualify him as one.
Here's a picture of him and his ma...just how black can he be?

Obama is half black and half white remember, he has ancestors from both sides. And seriously who gives a crap who his ancestors were, or wether hes black or white, it's the person he is that matters, his intentions.

[edit on 2-11-2009 by _Phoenix_]

Originally posted by total newbie
Don't people understand after the Civil War how 100 years of "Jim Crow" policies affected his family?

Finally we can have a black man that fully embodies the struggle and triumph of black people in America.

Most people HATE the policies not the person, wouldn't matter if was Obama, Hillary, Pelosi or John Kerry.

Once Neo-coms get that (which most do but MUST continue to play the race card), then we may be able to have a rational conversation about the issues.

In full agreement here... Obama's father is from Kenya, his mother was a Caucasian. No slave history here, unless you are talking about some distant cousins from his great great great grandfather or something... and if that's the case, I want some respect too, since I have Jews, Gypsies, Protestants, and Indians in my family tree.

Besides, I don't think anyone cares about how tan he is; it's his political views and those who he associates with the matter.

Originally posted by elaine
I thought his family was still in Africa and that he had no slave ancestors.
Are you saying that we should love him because he is black and because blacks suffered after the Civil War?

I am not clear on what you mean.

I believe that is exactly what he/she means.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce someone who most likely voted for Obama because of the color of his skin.

-drumroll-

total newbie.

So, ....what?
Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? ... do you think our enemies will?

He was raised by his white Grand Parents.
His father abandoned him.
He knows nothing about the ghetto.
He was raised in Hawaii, and then Indonesia.
He is not exactly brave.

So I ask, what exactly about Obama makes him black?

Love the sarcasm.

Richard Dawkins is more african then Obama

[edit on 2-11-2009 by Republican08]

Originally posted by Alxandro
He knows nothing about the ghetto.

That is not exactly true.

He has family members who live in the ghetto in the US and Africa(or whichever country his brother is in).

He knows about it, just never visited them.

Anglo Saxons suffered in the hands of Italians but you don't see them whining about it.