Jul 24 2008
Did You Know Obama is Black?
Obama the mulatto “citizen of the world” embarrassed the United States today by using English to inject race at the beginning of his long awaited speech in Berlin. Why is this man, that does not look like those that came before him, not giving this speech in German? Hmmm……….?
In what is proving to be a disappointing speech he is injecting Ronald Reagan and JFK. GMAB.
Will he tell us why he canceled his meeting with the soldiers in Germany?
And, will the media report that two wildly popular German bands showed up to “entertain” the crowd prior to Obama’s speech? Sound familiar?
It’s over after 30 minutes? Usually he is just starting.
Overall the speech was disappointing by Obama terms. He could usually make a McDonald’s menu sound appealing so long as it’s being read off a teleprompter.
Offensive in the beginning. Lacking luster through out.
So what does Obama being half black have to do with any of this? This post does not actually say anything, it just uses the most generic means possible to criticize Obama over nothing. I doubt you even read or watched the speech, there’s no evidence of it here.
Great question for Obama. Why does he continue to point out his blackness? Is it not obvious?
If you heard his speech in Berlin this a.m. it says plenty.
If in your life time, white people could once not have been allowed to sit at the front of the bus, go to the same schools as blacks and have to live in fear of organized thugs willing to lynch you merely for the color of your skin, you too might think skin color relevant.
I watched a good part of his speech and it wasn’t about him being black, it was about barriers. Do you actually contend that blacks have not had to face them in this country? Is it not a reasonable analogy for a black American to make?
Does it make you uncomfortable? And if so why?
In my lifetime I have known people who have been refused jobs due to their whiteness, that have been refused admission to school and training programs due to their whiteness - just as I have known those that have been given jobs they were not qualified for due to their blackness, and admitted to schools and training programs they would not have been eligible for if not for their blackness.
Now, here is a mulatto touting his blackness while excoriating his whiteness because he has nothing else.
Sorry but I do not bear the burden of white guilt. I have no need to. In this day and age the only ones holding anyone back is themselves. And when those such as Obama have to intentionally inject race, because he has nothing else, what does he offer but divisiveness.
Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts (just to name a few) made it to where they are due to hard work, determination and brilliance. They did not rely on their skin color. They did not succeed due to their skin color -they succeeded in spite of it.
They are living MLK’s dream - Obama defies it.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
It is nothing short of pathetic to compare reverse dicrimination (which certainly occurs) to the legacy of black American’s in this country. And once again you miss or choose to ignore the point. His speech wasn’t about being black however much you wish to make it so, it was about barriers. Being black in America has certainly historically been a barrier. Making the analogy to other barriers is certainly a valid one. This is not to say that we haven’t reached a point where people themselves are the only barriers to success in America. I agree with you that we have largely reached that point.
As for your concern over his status as a black man, he didn’t refer to himself as being black (unless it was in a part of the speech I did not see) but merely pointed out that he looked different from other famous American leaders who had come to speak to the German people.
As for your dream, I am sure you have one although it appears to be one where those in the public sphere, who disagree with you and those of your ilk can expect to be demonized and peronally attacked. As for MLK’s dream, I somehow think we white American’s will be ok.
Mike