Thats right folks. He's not black. Or at least not any longer in any real way that matters to me. Now, he's the President of the United States. Now, its all about the job baby. I don't care if he ever shows up at another Negro chicken dinner for the next 4 years. I don't care if he doesn't make the King memorial gig next year, or deliver a commencement address at an HBCU. If he can fit that stuff in, thats cool. But to me, its all about the job now. The economy, the war, security, the environment, energy, health care, this is what its about. His blackness now means absolute bupkis to me. Its time to govern. Now...I'm all about his effectiveness.
November 20, 2008
Obama Is Not Black
Thats right folks. He's not black. Or at least not any longer in any real way that matters to me. Now, he's the President of the United States. Now, its all about the job baby. I don't care if he ever shows up at another Negro chicken dinner for the next 4 years. I don't care if he doesn't make the King memorial gig next year, or deliver a commencement address at an HBCU. If he can fit that stuff in, thats cool. But to me, its all about the job now. The economy, the war, security, the environment, energy, health care, this is what its about. His blackness now means absolute bupkis to me. Its time to govern. Now...I'm all about his effectiveness.
RIGHT ON! Like your digs, though that gray o gray font can go lol. It's very hard to read.
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I think you guys are half right. In terms of his need to perform, he's not black and he is the president. He needs to be effective. And, because Bush has screwed things up so badly, he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
ReplyDeleteBUT, because he IS the first black president, much of the world will judge him as just that. Should he fail miserably--like Bush--he'll be the black man who didn't have his stuff together, not simply Barack Obama America's second incompetent president in a row.
You know Monroe, I actually don't think so. For all the talk about race and first black prez and all, I think people only superficially give a crap at this point. I'm dealing with so much stuff right now on a personal level in this economy, that I could care less about that stuff and I think thats true of most folks. While in the heat of the campaign it may have *seemed* relevant, I think now its irrevelant to people who are scared to death about what happens next and whether they are going to have a job. I don't think his race is really taking up much mindshare with people at all at this point. And if he does poorly, I'm not so sure it will be ascribed to his blackness at all.
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ReplyDeleteI am agreeing with Michael's feedback... the gray font color on the black background is very hard to read! The font size is also a bit small but I have seen that size on numerous blogs.
As for the notion that Obama IS NOT BLACK... he wasn't black before he was elected...he was always biracial. He refers to himself as a "mutt".
He knows that he can't say "I'm not black" and not be completely pummeled by black America but he writes in his book that he did NOT have a black identity as a child and was immersed in white ideology all around him.
The one-drop rule may be enforced by SOME Americans but as far as I am concerned the man has NEVER BEEN black and has never REALLY been part of black America.
I will wait and see what he is capable of as the leader of the world's superpower.
It takes much more than cute children, a wife who is an occassional fashionista and great speechwriters to pull this nation out of the abyss!!
Everyone is harshing on the font. I hear you, but make yourselves useful and help a brother out. I have not figured out how to change that in the template to fix it.
ReplyDelete@Trumpet - Obama never black? I don't think so. His blackness works like everyone else's on the surface, meaning he can get beat down for being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time, just like me. Saying he is a mutt is nice and I appreciate what he means when he says it, but the reality is that Barack chose to embrace the black that he is. Look at his church, look at his woman.
When all that "he is not black" negativity was going around, I dismissed ALL of it the first time I saw Michelle. That is a sho nuff black woman from the neighborhood. His choice of woman for his life partner told me everything I needed to know about his "blackness".
No doubt that its going to take a whole lot to turn this country around. It seems unfair that Obama should take the presidency under such dire circumstances, but not really when you consider that Obama asked for this responsibility. Now he's got it. So far, I believe he's doing well and the ultimate test will of course come when the full burden of it lays upon his shoulders.
ditto!
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how dare black racists erase his white kin who reared him solo!
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