kdsusa (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-15-08 02:13 PMhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7075535
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I'm not seeing exitement in the Black community
Advertisements [?]I don't know about the rest of you, but I just don't see any enthusiasm about Obama in my local Black community. I work in an office that is staffed by about 50% Black workers, and I never even hear Obama's name mentioned. The only time it was mentioned, an African American co-worker said that if Obama wins somebody will surely kill him.
In my workplace, we're not allowed to have political bumper stickers or anything like that, so you don't know anyone's politics unless they tell you. Still, I always expected the first African American presidential candidate to be met with wild enthusiasm. While I see the excitement on a national scale, I don't see it locally. And even on the national scale it seems Obama ignites White support about as much as African American.
I don't mean to imply that Blacks are mandated to support Black politicians, but Obama has widespread appeal, and a serious chance of winning the White House. Hell, that's pretty exciting.
Well, I sort of doubt it, but maybe there's no "excitement" in this black community about the Big Zero because the Big Zero isn't authentically African-American.
The Big Zero's only half black, and not the same black of African derivation of most African-Americans.
Also, the Big Zero had an upbringing far removed from the experiences of blacks in America.
If the Democrats wanted an authentic black candidate for the presidency, they had a whole stable to choose from; everybody from Congressmen John Lewis (D-Georgia) to Floyd Flake (D-New York) to Melvin Watts (D-North Carolina) to Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Illinois) to William Jefferson (D-Louisiana).
Good or bad, all the above guys know what it's been like, being black in America.
It's sort of as if I were to run as a deaf candidate--which I couldn't, because I've enjoyed some advantages most deaf people never did.
You can expect osamabama to get 97-98% of the black vote, but it will not be racist.
These American blacks simply identify with him. He was raised by a muslim family, in a muslim country, educated in a muslim madrassa.
He memorized koran verses about cutting off the heads of infidels.
He says the most beautiful sound in the world is a muzzie howler on a minaret calling the faithful to prayer.
But through it all, he remained a Baptist, just like these American blacks. So they identify with him.
kdsusa (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-15-08 02:13 PM
Original message
I'm not seeing exitement in the Black community
Advertisements [?]I don't know about the rest of you, but I just don't see any enthusiasm about Obama in my local Black community. I work in an office that is staffed by about 50% Black workers, and I never even hear Obama's name mentioned. The only time it was mentioned, an African American co-worker said that if Obama wins somebody will surely kill him.
In my workplace, we're not allowed to have political bumper stickers or anything like that, so you don't know anyone's politics unless they tell you. Still, I always expected the first African American presidential candidate to be met with wild enthusiasm. While I see the excitement on a national scale, I don't see it locally. And even on the national scale it seems Obama ignites White support about as much as African American.
I don't mean to imply that Blacks are mandated to support Black politicians, but Obama has widespread appeal, and a serious chance of winning the White House. Hell, that's pretty exciting.
You can expect osamabama to get 97-98% of the black vote, but it will not be racist.
These American blacks simply identify with him. He was raised by a muslim family, in a muslim country, educated in a muslim madrassa.
He memorized koran verses about cutting off the heads of infidels.
He says the most beautiful sound in the world is a muzzie howler on a minaret calling the faithful to prayer.
But through it all, he remained a Baptist, just like these American blacks. So they identify with him.
I never get polled.
I must pause very briefly to note usage of the word Negro in what follows: In all academic studies of race, the proper scientific word for the ethnic composition I discuss is Negro. For any who scream racist at its mention, I say take it up with the scientific community. It's not my word, it's theirs. I am using it in its proper scientific context.
Why is the fact that Mr. Obama is only 6.25% African Negro not reported?
Because to acknowledge it is to report this devastating truth about him: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president
Federal law requires that to claim a minority status, you must be at least 1/8 of the descriptor, but for the sake of this article, I've converted it to a decimal fraction for easier comprehension. You must be at least 12.5% of the racial component you claim for minority status. Mr. Obama, claiming to be African-American, is half the legal threshold.
Again, to let it sink in: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president..
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming "America's first African-American president" ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro - a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama's great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator's ethnic composition.).
That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.
Put another way, his father could honestly claim African-American ethnic classification. He was the last generation able to do so.