As you can see in the video with Stephen Colbert, Debra Dickerson claims that Barack Obama is not black. Colbert, while turning it into a hilarious segment, actually puts her in her place. Stephen Colbert does a great service to American politics by highlighting ridiculous ideas like this in a comedic way.
I hope Obama has a good laugh with this one. Congrats to Obama for launching his official bid for the WhiteHouse.
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I used to like this show, and the guy, at least until I watched this segment. Now I see that Colbert is nothing more than a white racist himself. The way he insulted Dickerson and her ideas was uncalled for and very racist. If he disagreed with her then that is fine, but he had no right to make fun of her(however, I believe she is right) Also, joking about slavery is not acceptable. Saying that Obama should be enslaved? What the hell is wrong with that guy? How can progessive support such filth, even if it was a so-called “joke”.
Jac, there’s two things you need to understand:
1) 95% of the words that come out of Colbert’s mouth on his program is ironic. I don’t care if you like him or dislike him, because that’s irrelevant. But it is essential that you are not wrong, in general. And dude, it’s the Colbert Report. Every person that comes on that show knows exactly what they’re getting into, and really have no right to complain about how they may be treated. If they don’t know, it’s their responsibility to find out what the show’s all about before going on.
2) There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing in life that exists (or doesn’t exist) that is off-limits from being joked about. Sure, sometimes you ought not to joke about subject X in front of person Y, erring on the side of good taste and common courtesy. But to say a person cannot? Well that’s essentially denying them free thought and/or free speech.
Now then, my two cents on the clip? I think this is one of Colbert’s finest moments in political satire and criticism. If you listen to Debra’s ideas about what is and is not “black,” they’re kinda wacky. Understandable, sure, but wacky nonetheless.
Person on the street isn’t going to judge the blackness of the other person on the street with any other manner than the color of their skin, to be frank. Sure, there’s personality stereotypes that go along with racial stereotypes and all that utter nonsense. But I doubt person on the street will approach every black person they see and quiz them on their heritage. Hell, most people don’t even know.
There will be no such thing as colorblind, so long as there are different colors. The trick, then, becomes not being a racist. Thousands of years from now, our race will have mixed to the point where we’re all the same brown color with ever-so-slight differences in tint. We will then, as a society, figure out ways to further distinguish ourselves from everybody else, because no one likes the idea of not being better than at least a few other people.
Evidence of this shows in Debra’s words. Where today, being black is less of an issue than it was a few decades ago (in the most general sense, of course, I doubt I’m a qualified judge on being a black person). And the thing that irks me to no end is when a race will further divide itself into sub-races and subcategories for reasons which I cannot comprehend other than to distinguish some people as better or worse than others.
Which is really, really racist.
For a while, every chance I could I tried to understand. I would ask black friends, and even just black acquaintances “Why do black Americans subdivide themselves? Why do they further compare each other based on lightness and darkness? What’s it for?” They rarely had an answer. More often than not, the answer was “We just do.”
So anyone (white, black or whatever else) that spews the shit that Debra was going on about? How Barack isn’t black because he wasn’t descended from slaves? How he’s African African-American, not a Real Black Person, and therefore does not deserve the same support a Real Black Person would because White People who support him aren’t supporting a Real Black Person? (and, as long as we’re getting technical, he’s only HALF African African-American)
He called her on that retarded notion, saying that her school of thought is essentially telling White People that we’re not supporting Black People for real, when if that self-subsidizing school of thought would just shut up, all People of Color essentially get a win? Regardless of background? And in return, she called him a racist for pointing that out (because a White Person is a racist if they discuss race). When in reality, her school of thought is almost more racist than just plain ol’ racism. “If I were White,” was the best response possible.
And the whole, “What if he were enslaved temporarily” bit was genius. Because what the fuck do they want? She got that, and she conceded. It was a brilliant debate.
(Whew, sorry. I get really mouthy on that stupid racism stuff.)
They separate themselves between lighter and darker blacks because of some factors that made it an issue back in Those Days.
Back then, slave-owners raping the slaves was pretty common, and the children produced were usually lighter-skinned.
Furthermore, the slave-owners preferred to keep lighter-skinned slaves as the house help, which was an envied job among slaves in those days. Whether or not they really WERE sell-outs, they were seen that way, and therefore closer to being white because of their privilege.
Combine the fact that lightly-skinned slaves were often the product of white interbreeding with the fact that white people favored their lighter-skinned slaves, and you get a situation where being light-skinned is seen as being somehow in league or otherwise connected with the oppressors. So those with less black skin were seen, literally, as less black.
As for why they still make a big deal out of this…
Well, it takes some emperors longer than others to realize they have no clothes.
Dude, Jac. She had that coming- don’t be so ignorant. He politely refuted HER RACISM. And she saw it and it was even at a level that made her think.
What this woman is doing is seperating people by race and asking the black community to not respect him as a member of their race. It is disrespectful and racist… How people like that demand equality is beyond me.
Stephen Colbert does not see color I am not sure how anyone could think of him as racist. Unfortunately there are alot of ignorant people who can not get over what color who ever is. If we could all view the world the same way Mr. Colbert does then it would not matter whether or not Obama is black or not.
I think that woman is a racist, i don’t know why some “black people” do not unerstand that this whole barak issue is being driven by the media who are trying to show that black people in this country do not support each other, so how can whites support them. I find that a lot of African Americans (blacks) have this hate against African. However barak obama had spent years working in Chicago, as a community organizer,,,, we’re talking about a harvard graduate here. I have one message for idiots like that woman and people who think like her,,,,,,,YOU DON’T BURN YOUR OWN BOAT,,,
actually, debra dickerson makes an interesting an valid point. she herself is not being racist because she recognizes the difference in history between blacks in the u.s(ancestors of former slaves) and senator obama’s lineage which traces back to kenya. Blacks in the U.S have a unique and complex history, the multitude of oppressions experienced over four huindred years ago until the present time influences every Black American’s concept of race.
Jason cites Colbert as no seeing color, which allegedly proves Colbert is not racist. When I think of color or the absence of color, I think of white. White by definition is the absence of color. So when someone says they don’t see color, it indicates a lack of acknowledgment of people of color. We are not the same, so don’t view us as such.
Black Americans don’t hate Africans necissarily. I Africans from Africa tend to view Blacks as inferior. There is a big difference that some how is being overlooked here. Blacks in America and Africans from Africa aren’t the same. Just like Blacks in America and Jamaicans or whatever group of people with African phenotype.
lazerflesh and Jason, you’re both out of line when you refer to Ms. Dickerson as a racist. She isn’t. The divisiness among Blacks has been set since slavery, ever hear of “Willie Lynch”? And she did not create race groups either. The European colonizers created race groups.
Senator Obama has an interesting life story, but there are cultural differences between him and Black Americans. Our anger sould be directed towards the media for manipulating the academics into taking sides. This media scrutiny has got to stop.
ANd one more thing, who cares if he is Muslim or studied Islam in Indonesia. Why do we care about what his religious beliefs are?
racsim has more to do with privelges granted to certain groups than skin color. what most people of color can attest to is that the more European a person of color looks, the more privelges that person would receive. Television shows such as “The Colbert Report” or “The Daily Show” and even “Da Ali G Show” should be viewed with a grain of salt. And really, it depends on the audience members educational attainment to really understand this. These shows are meant to inspire discussions about these issues these shows poke fun at. Futhermore, it could have been more tastefully done. That clip was in poor taste. Colbert is a prick more or less to most of his guests. but this was really low.
I just want to say a few things to all of you out there that look at race in all, and for all the wrong reasons. You can say what you want to say until the moon turns to cheese, but it will not alter the clear and obvious facts. Barack Obama IS NOT BLACK! His father was a Black Kenyan and his mother a White Kansan American, hence, a Mulatto, Mixed, Multiracial person. The only way a Mixed child could be considered White or Black exclusively is if he/she looked predominantly White (Mariah Carrey), or predominantly Black (the Cuban baseball playerAnguilla Bustamante). Being Black, White, or Mixed is not a choice. It’s not up to your personal feelings or biases. It’s not a political axe to grind. It’s not a one-drop rule. It’s not dependent upon anything but what you as an individual physically look like in a lineup. This modern-day trend of certain Blacks considering themselves White, certain Whites considering themselves Black, and certain Mixed people identifying with which ever they choose regardless if they look Mixed, mostly Black or mostly White, is totally insane and ridiculous to say the least. Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts, is another clear example of a Mulatto person claiming to be Black. He is just as light, if not a tad lighter than Obama! Now, I don’t know if one of his parents was Black and the other White, or if it goes further back than that, but what I do know is Mixed is Mixed no matter how you slice it. Dungy is definately not Black. Colon Powel is another example. I, myself have a smidgeon of Black in me so by the old Anglo one-drop rule I could be considered or consider myself Black, in spite of the fact I have blonde hair, hazel, green eyes, fair skin, and look like an average White person. I’m White, not because I want to be, choose to be, have an egenda to push, or anything. I’m White because that’s what I am, period! The one-drop rule is very ludacris! When you have Blacks calling themselves White and Whites calling themselves Black, it really makes them look like total nincompoops! I’m glad when I go buy a can of white paint, people don’t tell me it’s not really white paint, but black paint that looks white! Can you say, “IDIOT!”
WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS?
It is believed by many today that there are many races other than Black and White, but the following data will show to the contrary. People today consider African or African American; Asian, Oriental, or Mongoloid; Indian; Middle Eastern or Arab; European; Caucasian; Hispanic or Latino; Native American or “Indian”; Eskimo, Aleutian, Alaskan Native; and Pacific Islander as races of humans. That’s absurd and totally ridiculous on several grounds. Some are continents or parts of continents, others are regions, others are ethnicities, others are nationalities, and others are extremely loaded terms. This sheer inconsistency en total makes these terms very unreliable as racial designations as we shall see.
AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN - Africa is a landmass, a continent, that is equally home to people other than Blacks. Africa is made up of 54 countries and not all of them have a majority Black population. Many of these countries have large White or Mixed (Mulatto) populations, especially in northern, southern, and certain coastal areas of Africa. Blacks do indeed live all over Africa, and while they are a majority in many countries, they are minorities in other countries. Since the earliest times after Babel, Africa was settled predominantly by the descendants of Ham (Black people), but Mediterranean Whites (Semites), and Nordic Whites (Japhethites) also settled the coastal areas of northern and northeastern Africa. Through the ages more and more Whites and Mulattos have entered Africa either by invasion, colonization, or simply moved there and have carved out lives there up until this day. Thus, not only are many Africans non-Black, but not all Blacks on Earth originated in or are descended from Africa or African peoples, i.e. Black Aboriginal Australians, certain Pacific Islanders that are clearly Black, Black Dravidians of India, and the ancient Aboriginal Blacks of the Americas prior to the slave trade. (Note: I am not an Afrocentrist and all the facts point to Eurasia as the cradle of civilization, not Africa.) All of these FACTS make using Africa a synonymous patronymic for “Black” very unreliable and inconsistent to say the least. Therefore, “Africa” cannot logically be used synonymously and interchangeably with “Black” because it totally disregards White and Mulatto Africans that have just as much a right to claim Africa as their home. I worked with an Egyptian in the past named Sam G. and he was White. We were talking about this very subject one day. He was born in Egypt and moved here when he was 13 or 14 and still has the accent. The last time I checked the map, Egypt is an African country. Sam is more African than the Blackest American ever will be. White African actress Charlize Theron from South Africa, is likewise more African than the Blackest American. In short, an African is anybody born on the African continent regardless of race. An African American is an American of African heritage regardless of race. The Black, White, and Mixed Africans are each no more or no less African than the other. All are equally African! “Africa” is believed to derive from an ancient tribe called the Afri. It is believed by some the Roman general Scipio Africanus got his name from that tribe. Some speculate it was the other way around and he gave Africa it’s name. Who knows for sure. The bottom line is, that Africans are not a single race of people, but a mixture of different nationalities of White, Black, and varying degrees of Mulatto peoples.
ASIAN/ORIENTAL/MONGOLOID - Asia is the larger part of the landmass of Eurasia. Asia has 51 countries, not all having people possessing features such as “slanted,” almond eyes, and general Mongoloid features. An Asian is anybody born in Asia regardless of race. Indians, Pakistanis, Kazakhs, Afghans, Uzbeks, Mongolians, etc., etc., etc., are all Asians, many of whom are White. The larger part of Russia (mainly White people) are also Asian. Many Asians are White such as White Arabs, White Russians, and White peoples like Turks, Uzbeks, and Afghans, etc., etc., etc. Some are Black like Black Arabs, particularily in southern Arabia and Black Indians (Dravidians), and other Blacks indigenous to parts of Asia. Most are a healthy stable Mulatto like the Mongoloid (Mongolian-like) peoples, and certain Mixed Arabs. All are Asian, but one is no more or no less Asian than the other. The same scenario that applied to Africa also applies to Asia! It’s believed that “Asia” derives from the ancient “Assyria.” The term “oriental” just means “eastern,” as “occidental” means “western.” They’re not races or physical looks and appearances and Oriental doesn‘t mean “almond eyes.” Oriental is anybody from east of the Ural Mountains and east of Greece. Middle or Near Easterners as well as Far Easterners are all Orientals. Indians and Siberians are all likewise Asians. The terms “oriental” and “occidental” probably originated with the scattering of peoples away from Babel and Noah’s Ark, which landed in the Ararat Mountains of the Caucasus. That area in conjunction with the Ural Mountain range symbolically divides Asia from Europe although this division is only imaginary since anyone can look at an atlas and clearly see that Asia and Europe are one large landmass or continent.
As for the Mongoloids, many of them are light-skinned enough to be White or dark enough to be Black in spite of their almond eyes. I’ve known an American of Japanese ancestry who had a skin complexion no different than a typical White American. He considered himself White, believe it or not. Who am I to argue with that logic. He is White as far as I’m concerned. Almond eyes does not cease to make one White or Black. Incidentally, there are certain Black tribes in Africa that have almond eyes! On the flip side of that coin, I’ve seen photos of indigenous Blacks in parts of Korea. So, clearly, Asian cannot be a race of people. As for the term “Mongoloid.“ it simply means Mongolian or Mongol-like in appearance. It was once considered a separate race but the facts are, it’s an ancient Mulatto group formed by the mixing and mingling of ancient Blacks (mainly Sinites), Mulattos (Hittites) and Whites (Tocharians and Magyars) across Asia to differing degrees. Ancient Chinese writings tell us that China’s first dynasties were Black. Asian Eurasia was mainly populated by both the Hamites (Blacks) Semites (Mediterranean Whites in the Middle East mainly), and Japhethites (Nordic Whites) The bottom line is that Asians are either White, Black, or varying degrees of Mulattos, but is not a race in and of itself.
INDIAN - Indians, simply put, are from India. India is a country just like China, Indonesia, Bhutan, Kenya, or Canada. Indians, like most other Asians (or Eurasians) are themselves an ancient Mulatto people for the most part. They are predominantly a mix between the ancient Black Dravidians (possibly Cushites) and the White Aryans (Medes) who invaded in 1500 BC. However, Indians are clearly not a race of people. I’ve seen Indians as Black as any Black African or as White as any European.
MIDDLE EASTERN/ARAB - A Middle Easterner is one born in the Middle East regardless of race. The Middle East is a region of Asia and Asia is the larger part of Eurasia. Middle Easterners are mainly Mediterranean Whites. However, nearly as many Blacks (Hamites) settled the Middle East in Ancient times as did Mediterranean Whites (Semites). In certain areas, particularily in the Arabian peninsula and parts of Canaan this was true. There’s even a degree of Nordic White (Japhetic) stock present in the Middle East’s population. The Ancient Medes were Nordic White and there were early Greek outposts as well and they too were Nordic White for the most part. When you see blonde haired, blue-green-gray eyed people in the Middle East, those are throwbacks to the Nordic Whites. In spite of all this mixing, there are in fact Black Middle Easterners as well. If the Middle Easterners are a race then Southerners here in America should also be a race.
The word “Arab” derives from the Semitic root “ereb” which means “mixed multitudes.” This is helpful in describing the Arabic peoples as a whole. They themselves even know they’re mixed and not a single race! “Arab” is a more broad meaning than Middle Easterner because it encompasses northern Africa as well. Thus, when we use the term “Arab” we’re actually and truthfully saying a “mixed or mulatto person.” Arabs, just like Middle Easterners are mainly a mix between the various Semitic (Mediterranean) tribes, but due to considerable Hamitic (Black) stock also inhabiting ancient Arabia, there was substantial mixing of them as well. Today, a great many Arabs are Mediterranean White. But many Arabs are also Black! A few are even Nordic White (Japhetic), but most are Mixed (Mulatto). The Mediterranean White (Semitic) seems to be the dominant phenotype in much of the Arabian countries though. Today Arabic is also the language that Arabs speak. The Arabic language is mixed just like the people who speak it, but clearly is predominantly Semitic. “Arab” cannot be used as a racial term in light of these facts. Actors/spokesmen, etc., Tony Shalhoub, F. Murray Abraham, David Hasselhoff, Casey Kasem, Ralph Nader, Shakira, Danny Thomas, and even Saddam Hussein are all Arab or part Arab and yet all are clearly White! Most Sudanese are Black Arabs. Many North Africans are also Black Arabs in various countries. I don’t know any Black Arabs by name other than the Egyptian Mostafa Hefny. I’ve seen Black Arabs, but can’t remember their names. However, most of the Arab world is made up of Mediterannean White people. Many if not most northern Africans are clearly White though. Early on, northern Africa was home to Blacks predominantly except for the Mediterranean coast. They descend from early Whites such as the Greeks, Aeolians, Romans, Mulatto or predominantly White Phoenicians (who, incidentally, were originally Black before centuries of mixing), and the later Germanic Vandals, plus the even later Islamic hordes of Moors who were Black, White, and Mulattos themselves. Today’s northern Africans are a conglomerate of all these peoples and are mainly White, though large Black and Mulatto populations exist there as well. Clearly though, Middle Easterners and Arabs are not races of people in light of these facts.
EUROPEAN - Europe is a peninsula of the larger Eurasian continent. Europe and Asia aren’t even separate continents as is taught. Europe consists of 45 countries, all of which are clearly made up of White people. European Eurasia was peopled by mainly the Japhethites (Indo-Europeans/Nordic Whites). Eurasia has 96 countries by adding Europe’s and Asia’s countries together. There are Blacks living in Europe, but not enough to declare any country Black. Even though Europe is 99.9 percent White in all it’s 45 countries, it’s still not a race of people. There are Whites outside Europe that have been so for thousands of years like Russia (Muskovites), and ancient Persia (Medes and Elamites), and the White Indians (Aryans or Medes), Armenians, and as we mentioned earlier, many Middle Easterners and Arabs, and Afghans, Turks, Kazakhs, and many Pakistanis, etc. The majority of the Japhethites migrated to Europe and North-Central Asia, but not all did. A European is anybody born in Europe regardless of race! Again, a more precise term is Eurasian in spite of the Western world always wanting to divide the two for no logical reason other than tradition, religion, and politics.
CAUCASIAN - Caucasian or Caucasoid is always used as a synonym for White people. Actually “Caucasian” refers exclusively to the peoples of the Caucasus area around Georgia, between the Caspian and Black Seas. They speak ancient languages called Caucasian today spoken by the Circassians and Georgians. These Caucasians Proper are White people, but to take a name already in use and extend it to encompass all people that share their phenotype makes it rather unreliable and out of place as a demonstrative for other peoples. This would be like calling all White people in the world Britons because Britons are White. That’s absurd to say the least. An example of this is calling Aboriginal Americans, Indians when the name “Indian” is already rightfully taken by the people of India. Columbus’ mistake but it still doesn’t make it suitable. If “Negroid” is used for “Black,” then “Blancoid” should be used for “White.” “Negroid” comes from the Spanish word “Negro” for the color “black.” “Blanco” comes from the Spanish word for the color “white.” However, splitting hairs aside, “White” is defining enough. The Census bureau defines Caucasian as “originating or descending from any country in Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.” That’s foolish because whereas Europe is 99.9 percent White in all it‘s nations, there are Blacks living there. North Africa does indeed have a White majority, but is also home to very large numbers of Blacks and Mulattos. Should Black North Africans be called White just because they’re from North Africa? The Middle East is also chock full of Whites, but plenty of Mulattos and Blacks live there as well. Should they too be considered White simply because they’re from the Middle East? The point is, your race is determined by what you physically look like, not necessarily where you were born or live exclusively. This brings to mind a Black Egyptian named Mostafa Hefny who moved to the USA and was forced to check White in spite of the clear fact he was Black. This was done simply because he was from Egypt which is in North Africa. I saw a photo of him and let me tell you, he could play Samuel L. Jackson’s brother! He looks no different than the average Black American. He even had a afro! Hefny is a clear example of a Black Arab or a Black North African! He sued the US government and rightly so! That would be identical to considering Charlize Theron, the White South African actress as Black simply because she comes from south of the Sahara Desert. (Note: According to the US Census Bureau, Black or African is defined as one having roots or from any country south of the Sahara Desert.) What’s the Sahara Desert got to do with it anyhow? Africa is Africa, north, south, east, west, underneath, whatever. It’s all Africa. No one region of Africa is more African than another region. Labeling Theron as Black because she’s from south of the Sahara, is identical as labeling Hefny White because he’s from north of the Sahara. How stupid can the human race get?! Again, Caucasian is not a fitting term, White being the simpler, more logical term as it does not conflict or overlap with anything else.
HISPANIC/LATINO - Whereas only Spaniards and people of the Spanish culture, language, and ethnicity are Hispanic; Spaniards, Portuguese, Andorrans, Frenchmen, Italians, Romanians and related peoples of those languages, cultures, and ethnicities would all be Latinos. Actually, if anybody should be considered Latino above all others it’s Italians, because it was their ancestors, the Romans, that initiated and spread the Latin language and cultures. However, I said all that to say this. Although there are Black people living in the countries of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Andorra, and Romania, they are all nations of White people. The fact they are Latino does not conflict with the fact they are White. White is a race whereas Latino/Hispano(ic) are cultures, languages, and ethnicities that are interracial, not a single race. Too many American idiots cannot seem to come to grips with the fact that Hispanic/Latino is not a race nor is it synonymous with the color brown. The Hispanics/Latinos that people usually think of as being brown or “looking Hispanic/Latino” are actually Mixed (Mulatto) people. But, just because the majority of Hispanics/Latinos we usually see are Mulattoes, does not at all mean there are not White as well as Black Hispanics/Latinos. There are many examples of White Hispanics/Latinos such as Gloria Estefan, Cameron Diaz, The Sheen/Estevez family, Ricky Martin, Ricardo Montalban, Andy Garcia, Jerry Garcia, Shakira, Jose and Miguel Ferrer, Desi Arnaz and son, Antonio Banderas, Esteban Bellan, Armando Marsans, Rafael Almeida, Adolfo Luque, Salma Hayak, Nelly Furtado, and the list goes on and on and on; and Black Hispanics/Latinos such as Roberto Clemente, Sammy Sosa, Orestes Minoso, Martin Dihigo, Silvio Garcia, “El Duque” Hernandez, Tony Oliva, and the list goes on and on and on. The Haitians though they speak a French dialect which is still derived from Latin are technically Latino although they are predominantly Black or Mulatto. The Dominicans whom they share Hispaniola with are similar to the Haitians but they speak a Spanish dialect and have much more White admixture than the Haitians do, but there are still plenty of Black Dominicans just as Black as their Haitian neighbors. Technically the Cajuns of Louisiana and the French speaking Quebec Canadians are also Latino but most Cajuns and Quebecians are White. Cuba’s Latinos are predominantly White and Mulatto, whereas Puerto Rico’s Latinos are predominantly Mulatto. Uraguayans, Argentinians, and Brazilians all have large White populations and Brazil also has a large Black population as well. Mexico has largely Aboriginal descent people (Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Toltec) which are incidentally themselves an ancient Mulatto of Black and White. Compared to Anglo American Mulattos, Latin America has a much higher percentage of Mixed people, whether they be White-Black Mulattos, White-Mulatto Mulattos, or Black-Mulatto Mulattos. Here in the Americas there are 2 predominating groups, the Latin Americans and the Anglo Americans. In Anglo America the official language is English and the cultures and ethnicities reflect this fact. Anglos can be White, Black or Mulatto because we all speak English though not all are necessarily of British ancestry. The same exact scenario exists in Latin America. In Latin America Spanish, Portuguese, and French are the official languages and their cultures and ethnicities reflect this fact. Latin Americans just like Anglo Americans can be White, Black, or Mulatto. This all goes to prove there’s absolutely no such thing as a “Hispanic/Latino look.” Sure, people can conjure up in their minds the so-called stereotypical Hispanic/Latino “look” and within that confined limited parameter pick out those particular Hispanics/Latinos in a crowd for the most part. But, how many White or Black Hispanics/Latinos do those same people pass every day and take no notice or pay no attention to because they don’t fit the narrow, limited, brainwashed stereotype? This could cause problems in a criminal investigation where the general public is counted on to find a Hispanic/Latino criminal couldn’t it?
Let’s look into the history of Hispanics/Latinos. The Romans who conquered the Iberian peninsula divided it into 2 portions. The eastern larger portion they called Hispania (Spain), and the smaller western portion they called Lusitania (Portugal). Hispanic or Hispano comes from Hispania as well as Hispaniola, and Espana (Spain). Portuguese people are not Hispanic regardless of what some declare. They would technically be Lusitanic, though this term is hardly, if at all, used or even known to people. The Portuguese are Latino though. Latino is a much more broad and encompassing term than Hispanic as was stated before. However, in spite of being Latino, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French explorers and conquerors were White. They were described by the Aboriginal Americans as “palefaced ones,” and “having eyes like chalk, sandy colored hair and beards and light eyes,” while some possessed “dark eyes, hair, and beards.” In contrast to the British who mainly came to the Americas to settle with families, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French came with mainly military to conquer for their mother countries and thus brought few women with them. The men, with their wives back home did what came natural and mated in with the Aboriginal Mulatto people and with the Black slaves they brought over from western African countries. This gave rise in Latin America to large populations of Mulatto/Mestizo people. But they still maintained a White elite aristocracy to rule the colonies. The same scenario occurred in the British colonies but to a much lesser degree. Today, there still remains large populations of Latin Americans that are White. The Black slaves took Spanish, Portuguese, or French sir names and learned Spanish, Portuguese, and French just like Black slaves in the British colonies took British sir names and learned English. This has led a majority of Hispanics/Latinos to being Mulattos to varying noticeable degrees. But this by no means eliminated or suggests there are not overwhelming numbers of White Hispanics/Latinos and Black Hispanics/Latinos to go around.
Hispanic or Hispano and Latino is the equivalent of Anglo. We Americans live in an Anglo society. We speak English, settled mainly by the British, and have various British cultures and ethnicities. Other cultures are present but we all speak English–Black, White, and Mulatto alike, thus making us all Anglo Americans. But, Anglo is still not a race! The same applies to Hispanic/Latino. Of all the cultures that have made up Hispanics/Latinos, they still predominantly speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French–Black, White, Mulatto alike, thus making them all Hispanics and/or Latinos, but it’s still not a race of people any more than Anglo is! People sometimes forget that Latin America has been just as much of a melting pot for the world as has Anglo America. Anglo Americans descend from hundreds of world nations but since they speak English today, they’re Anglos. Likewise, Latin Americans descend from hundreds of world nations and since they speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French today, they’re all Latinos. So, just because someone comes from a Latin American country and speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French, does not mean they are of Spanish, Portuguese, or French ancestry. Many people claim to be Hispanic/Latino when they can’t even speak the language and do not possess any of the cultures shared by Latin Americans. Therefore, they cannot logically be Hispanic/Latino. They may be of Hispanic/Latino ancestry, but they are no longer Hispanic/Latino themselves. If you descend from any Hispanic/Latino nation and have a Hispanic/Latino last name, but you speak only English and only have an Anglo American culture and ethnicity, then you are not Hispanic/Latino. You’re Anglo! Likewise, if a person of Anglo ancestry living in Latin America speaks only Spanish, Portuguese, or French, then that person is not Anglo. They are Hispanic/Latino! Many Americans get all tied up in their ancestry. “I’m Irish.” “I’m Italian.” “I‘m Greek.” “I‘m Spanish.” “I‘m Mexican.” “I’m Russian.” “I’m this.” “I’m that.” “I’m whatever.” No! If you weren’t born in that country then that’s not what you are. It is your ancestral blood heritage, but it’s not what you are today. You are where you are born and raised. If you are born in America, you’re an American, period. A great many Americans are of British ancestry (which includes English, Scottish, and Welsh), but you don’t hear British Americans en masse going around calling themselves British Americans do you? Of course not! The same applies to Americans of Latin American ancestry. You’re not a Latin American if you do not speak the language or possess the cultures of Latin America!
As for the term “Latino,” it comes from the word “Latin.” The Latins were a Japhetic (Nordic) tribe that eventually conquered all of Italy and founded the Roman Empire. The Romans were predominantly White as were the people they conquered until they started encroaching into northern Africa and the Mulatto populations of Arabia. The Latins (Romans) who conquered Spain, Portugal, France, Romania, and Italy were White. The ancient peoples of Spain, Portugal, France, Romania, and Italy that the Romans subjugated were mostly White. Thus the Latin culture, language, and ethnicities were spread around the Roman world. Today the Latin (Romanic) countries of Europe are Italy, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and France as was stated earlier. (Note: It was the French colonists that coined the term Latin America to distinguish the French colonies from Anglo America–the British colonies.)
Lastly, it’s a myth that southern Europeans are a great contrast to northern Europeans in skin complexion. The claims of the fair skin northerners vs. the dark skin southerners is greatly exaggerated to say the least. The average Sicilian’s natural complexion is not that much different from the average Swede’s skin complexion. Therefore, to claim that southern Europeans are non-White is clearly and totally unwarranted.
NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN - A Native American is anybody born in America or anywhere in the Americas (North or South America). I’m a Native American. For Indian see the section on INDIA. Columbus thought he’d reached the Indies when in fact he’d reached the Americas, but the name stuck. I reckon if Columbus thought he’d landed in Japan we’d be playing Cowboys and Japanese today! A more suitable and non-overlapping term for these people as a whole would be Aboriginal Americans. They, themselves descended from ancient Blacks, Whites, and Mulattos from ancient Africa, Eurasia, and Australia/Oceania. The proof of this comes from the first pioneers into the Americas. Black “Indian” tribes were described as living in certain areas of the American South. White “Indian” tribes were described living in northern Georgia and out West. Ancient drawings, and stone carvings, and statues from South America and southern North America depict Black people especially in the Olmec areas. If Blacks were in Africa first, why don’t we call them Native Africans to the disregard of other Africans? So, we should not call the ancient Aboriginal Americans Native Americans to the disregard of other Americans. So here again we have an ancient Mulatto people that does not constitute a single race. So, neither Native American nor American “Indian” are races! “Aboriginal American,” though not a race, is a much more satisfactory term.
ESKIMO/ALEUTIAN/ALASKAN NATIVE - Eskimos and Aleutians are part of the Aboriginal American peoples and are thus not races. An Alaskan Native is anybody born in the state of Alaska regardless of race! See previous section on NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN.
PACIFIC ISLANDER - A Pacific Islander is anybody born on a Pacific Island regardless of race. It’s not a race in and of itself though! There are Pacific Islands home to Black peoples, Mulatto peoples, and White peoples, although more recently no doubt. The ancient Aboriginal peoples of these islands are clearly predominantly Black with large amounts of White present in their genetics as well, thus a Mulatto people. This however renders the usage of Pacific Islander as a racial term right up there with considering African and Asian as races. It’s totally absurd!
CONCLUSION - If we’re going to use European, African, and Asian as racial terms, then we must also use North American and South American as racial terms, too. Then if enough people settle Antarctica, we’ll have to use Antarctican as a race! If we are going to Use Indian, and Hispanic as a race, then we need to start splitting all countries on Earth into separate races too. If we’re going to treat Latino as a race, then we must treat Celtic, Teutonic, Slavic, Hellenic, etc., etc., etc., as races! If we’re going to consider Pacific Islanders a race then we must consider Key Westers, and Nantucketans as races too! My my my what a big job application that would create! You see the utter foolishness in all of these overlapping, inconsistent, contradictory, and ridiculous attempts by the so-called educated academicians to “properly” label people? Anybody with a quarter of a brain can see through this totality of ignorance! The question is a simple one. What do you physically, predominantly look like in a line up? If you look Black, guess what? YOU’RE BLACK! If you look White, guess what? YOU’RE WHITE! If you look like neither to a noticeable degree and to varying features of the in-between status, guess what? YOU’RE MIXED (MULATTO, MULTIRACIAL) - PERIOD! Your race is not your ethnicity, nationality, or culture. Race is outside of the more fluid and changing ethnicities and cultures. Being White or Black is not your culture or ethnicity or habits. It’s what you physically and biologically are regardless of your culture, ethnicity, habits, opinions, or desires. Take White people for instance. People make the mistake of thinking White equals Western (as in the Western world or Western ideologies) or that it equals standard US American culture. Many equate being White with being Christian or Protestant and declare emphatically that Muslims and Easterners cannot be White because they’re not Western. That’s utter foolishness. A great many Muslims are White and just because they speak Arabic, Israeli, or some other non Indo-European language, has no bearing on whether or not they are White. All European nations vary widely in cultures and ethnicities, but yet all European nations are clearly and obviously made up of 99.9 percent White peoples. Whiteness is not something you feel, choose, or decide. It’s just what you are.
The bottom of bottom lines is this simple, but, truthful fact, and that there are but 3 main races of mankind (4 if you consider Mulatto a race): Semitic (Mediterranean White), Japhetic (Nordic White), Hamitic (Black), and Mulatto (Mixed), period! Alpines, Dinarics, Armenoids, etc., etc., etc., can be explained by the mixing to varying degrees between the Mediterranean Whites and Nordic Whites. To get someone’s true skin complexion, you must observe the areas of their body that are untanned and in their natural state of complexion. In this light, Mediteranneans and Nordics both have light skin. Blacks, have very dark skin in their untanned natural state. Mulattos have a swarthy untanned natural complexion. Mediterannean Whites like most Arabs can appear very chocolate in their exposed tanned skin, but if unexposed are naturally light-skinned. Nordic Whites can appear very bronze in their exposed tanned skin, but are rather fair in their natural state. The controversy over these elementary terms and discussions will never be solved unless people start using common sense, logic, and quit letting political correctness, personal biases, and personal or political axes to grind interfere with these matters. However, when it’s all said and done, there’s really only one race–THE HUMAN RACE! Below is a helpful list of who is who and where modern peoples and nations came from.
THE MEDITERRANEAN WHITE RACE
SHEM - The father of all the Semitic peoples. These original Semites spoke a Proto-Semitic language that eventually became the Semitic family of languages. The various Semitic dialects hardly diverged from one another far enough to allow for mutual unintelligibility–hardly signs of any real language confusion. Modern linguists, blindfolded, can easily define and trace Semitic “languages” back to a common ancestral tongue. The Proto-Semitic was the language of the Pre-Babel and Pre-Flood people all the way back to Adam and Eve. It is my personal opinion that God took the original human language of Semitic, and extracted elements from it to create the 2 other proto-languages of Proto-Japhetic and Proto-Hamitic. In spite of extreme difficulties, linguists, including secular linguists, are coming to the conclusion that all languages of the world are related, no matter how remote or far-flung.The race of these Semites were what we would refer to as the true Mediterranean White peoples. They had light skin, but not fair (ex. Actor Tony Shalhoub). They possessed brunet hair, brown eyes, rather aquiline facial features, and were more or less generally of medium-to-short stature and build. Their natural, untanned skin complexion was almost as light as the fairer-skinned Japhethites, but the Semites could tan easier and get much darker when exposed to the sun. Their suntans would have been very dark like a chocolate or mocha tan. The Mediterranean Whites would have been the original phenotype of people from Adam to Noah as well as to the Confusion at Babel. Below are the 26 “sons” of Shem and their respictive proto-tribes/nations.
ELAM - Elamites
ASSHUR - Assyrians
ARPHAXAD - Chaldeans
SALAH - Salahites
EBER - Hebrews
PELEG - Pelasgians
JOKTAN - Joktanites
ALMODAD - Elmorads
SHELEPH - Shelephites
HAZARMAVETH - Hadramauts
JERAH - Jerahites
HADORAM - Adramites
UZAL - Azallas
DIKLAH - Diklahites
OBAL - Obalites
ABIMAEL - Abimaelites
SHEBA - Shebahites (separate from Hamite Sheba)
OPHIR - Ophirites
HAVILAH - Euilats (separate from Hamite Havilah)
JOBAB - Labibis
LUD - Lydians
ARAM - Arameans
UZ - Uzites
HUL - Hulites
GETHER - Getherites
MASH - Mashites
THE NORDIC WHITE RACE
JAPHETH - The father of all the Japhetic (i.e Indo-European) peoples. The original Japhetic peoples, just prior to the Confusion spoke the same Semitic language as the Semites. What we call Semitic (from Shem) was the language spoken not only by Semites, but Hamites and Japhethites as well, at least up until the Confusion. Then, by whatever means God used, He altered the Japhetic people linguistically as well as racially. Although the Japhetic line did suffer a tad more “confusion” compared to the Semitic line, no real signs of severe confusion occurred among the Japhethites, at least compared to the Hamitic line! The dialectical divergence that eventually did occur slowly splintered the Proto-Japhetic tongue from the Confusion in such an orderly fashion that modern linguists can very easily trace them back to a common original tongue. The race of the Japhethites was altered slightly at the Confusion also. Their skin complexion was lightened a fraction to a bit more fair than the Semites. They were given the blonde hair color and blue/green eyes as well. Technically yellow, dirty blond, sandy blond, strawberry blond (“red”), and all the related blonde variants are all blonde. They were given the generally sharp, stern facial features and the likewise medium-to-tall stature and build. These features are what is referred to as Nordic features. It takes Nordics longer to tan in the sun and can’t get near as dark as a Mediterranean. The Nordic suntan is more of a bronze. So, here we have the 2 White races laid out–the Semites (Mediterraneans) and Japhethites (Nordics). From various mixture of these 2 groups and inbreeding and such, the intermediate White groups such as the Alpines, Dinarics, Armenoids, etc., arose. Below are the 14 “sons” of Japheth and their respective proto-tribes/nations.
GOMER - Cimmerians
ASHKENAZ - Scythians
RIPHATH - Paphlagonians
TOGARMAH - Armenians
MAGOG - Magogotes (Magyars)
MADAI - Medes
JAVAN - Ionians
ELISHAH - Aeolians
TARSHISH - Tartessians
KETH - Cypriots
DODAN - Dardanians
TUBAL - Iberians
MESHECH - Muskovites
TIRAS - Thracians
THE BLACK RACE
HAM - Father of the Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) peoples. They spoke Semitic like the rest until the Confusion. The Language Confusion curse fell predominantly on the line of Ham as it was Ham who had the tendency to be a rebellious one already from his encounter with his drunk Dad, Noah. Nimrod, a Hamite, is credited with instigating the rebellion and building of Babel in order to stay together and build a huge city and tower and defy God’s order to spread out. This tendency for the children of Ham to take after their Dad was their own curse already. So, when God meted out confusion, He did so mainly on the line of Ham. Evidence for this is their quick departure from Babel to all corners of the globe. Their Proto-Hamitic language diverged as quick as they did themselves from Babel. Their language splintered, fractured, and fragmented so much so compared to the lines of either Japheth or Shem, that modern linguists have extreme difficulty in tracing them back to a common ancestral language. It’s been observed in the past that in some cases when a Hamitic (Black) or predominantly Black tribe splits and moves only a few miles away, in only a literal few generations the 2 groups can no longer communicate. The words either stay the same or similar but change meaning, or the meanings stay the same or similar while the words change. This tendency is found in pretty much all Hamitic (Black) or in Mixed populations where the Hamitic stock is predominant around Earth. The features of the Hamites seem to have been more pronounced as well. They were given dark, near black skin complexions, brown eyes, black hair, and generally broad, flat facial features. Hair texture can be kinky to more or less straight, but always black. They were generally medium-to-tall and of slender, wiry muscular stature and build. Below are the 30 “sons” of Ham and their respective proto-tribes/nations.
CUSH - Nubians (Ethiopians)
SEBA - Sabaeans
HAVILAH - Evileans
SABTAH - Sabathens
RAAMAH - Ragmeans
SHEBA -
DEDAN - Dedanites
SABTECAH - Sabactens
NIMROD - Sumero-Babylonians (Akkadians)
MIZRAH - Egyptians
LUD - Libyans
ANAM - Anamites
LEHAB - Lehabites
NAPHTUH - Naphtuhites
PATHRUH - Pathrusites
CASLUH - Philistines
CAPHTOR - Cappadocians (not Crete or Cretans)
PHUT - Phutites
CANAAN - Canaanites
SIDON - Phoenicians
HETH - Hittites
JEBUS - Jebusites
AMOR - Amorites
GIRGASH - Girgashites
HIVI - Hivites
ARKAH - Arkites
SINN - Chinese
ARVAD - Arvadites
ZEMAR - Zemarites
HAMATH - Hamathites
From these 70 proto-nations, sprang all the nations to come in the world up even till this day. All people on Earth trace back to one or more of these 70 people and on back to Noah and his wife themselves and ultimately back to Adam and Eve!
VIVA BARAK OBAMA
TO HELL WITH ALL THIS RACE TALK!
In the words of the great Shandy:
“Jason cites Colbert as no seeing color, which allegedly proves Colbert is not racist. When I think of color or the absence of color, I think of white. White by definition is the absence of color.”
White by definition from Wikipedia:
“Technically speaking, white is not a color at all, but rather the combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum.[1]”
Kind of funny that black is actually the absence of colour.
Either way… I still see Steven Colbert as a great service to the world of today. Racism needs to be taken with a light heart. It needs to get to a point where jokes about racism truly are quite classic. Because when you can feel safe joking about it… it really isn’t a problem anymore.
I’ve really found a problem in my life with counter-racism. Where someone of different race to oneself would blame their own failure on the racism of the one instead of their own ineptness. It irks me to realize that each and every act of counter-racism drags bag the progress of equality by leaps and bounds.
A sad world my friends.
man the problem I see, is that we will never be one until we can accept that we are one!
So… white is the scientific culmination of all colour… while black is the artistic combination of all colour?
I guess this on it’s own could absolve all the racial problems in the world. Except that… we’ve neglected the other colours… why do we just deal in blacks and whites? I can wait until everyone’s just tan…
That woman got roasted. Her and Barrack are around the same skin tone. She might not be black either eventhough she can pass. I thought the color system in the black community is black, colored, mixed. I know other races got mixed folks too, but it seem like the ones mixed with black are in the spotlight. What’s with that? Anyway if ur black in America, it’s a chance u might have white folks in your blood line no matter how dark or light one might be. It just the fact that one is obvious than the other and people in general are not too deep. We see what’s front of us.
Billy I’m sorry but your conclusions on race are totally of your own making. Asians are not descended from blacks, whites or whatever ever mix of races. Saying so is racist in itself and show a deep lack of archaeological evidence to support anything you have said in this regard.
Not to mention your knowledge on what you have said on th eother races seems suspect although it looks like you have spent a lot of time either making up things in your mind about them or have read many books and skewed the knowledge in them to represent it as logic when you write it down.
Asians are as old a race as whites and blacks.
If you are going to refer to the sons of Noah, there were 3. Shem Ham and Japheth. Is it just a coincidence then that the 3 major races blacks, whites and asians correspond to the 3 sons of Noah?
I am not saying that all the world is separated into these groups as there are clearly a mixing of genetic pool in all 3 but there is clearly a defined, physical, characteristic trait that defines a stereotypical white from a black and from an asian. To think otherwise would be living in your own delusional sense of the world.
But in any of these cases, we are all descended from Noah and from Adam and Eve before that from a biblical standpoint. So we are all the same race with the same genetic pool.
There is no such thing as the black race or the asian race or the white race because we are all descended from 1 man adam and later Noah. Therefore we are all of the same race. We just have different traits depending on which son of Noah each race retains the most of their genetic “traits” from.
oh one more thing billy,
indigenous blacks in korea? What weed have you been smoking so early? That is a racist comment right there.
bah wish this site had an edit feature…
One last thing, considering that koreans are the most homogenous people on the face of the planet (this is proven not just a myth), its odd that you would even conjecture that there were these mythical, indegenous black people.
I mean where are you getting your facts from? Have even done any research into the stuff your writing about? truly an abusive use of knowledge. sad really.
http://www.antioch.sg/article.php/20030504102718782/print
I think this is a good thought out trace on the origins of oriental or asian people (The Far East)
Asians or Orientals are not from a Hamitic line.
I guess after all is said and done, I am an English-American.
Why does no one mention his very white mother? He is half-white no matter how you wish to be politically correct. Therefore, he is mixed, a mixie, mulatto or however you wish to put it. I think that strictly for political reasons, he has allied himself as the hopeful future of America’s blacks. But yet his is tainted, as most mixed race persons are in the minds of racial purists. He seems to ignore half of his heritage for political purposes.
My daughter has several friends that have black fathers and white mothers. The blacks do not accept them and many of the whites also do not accept them and thus they are marginalized. My daughter having been raised to accept all people as good until proven otherwise, irregardless of race, has several mixed-race friends from the time she was a small child and has no preconcieved notions as past generations have. I think that she has a unique perspective from past generations and I salute her for looking at the person from the inside before looking at the exterior. May we all look at humans in this manner.
Bottom line…his mom is white…period.
BARACK OBAMA IS NOT BLACK. HOW CAN A BLACK PERSON BE BORN FROM A WHITE WOMAN???
impossible
He is mixed race. If you want to give these old fashion racial labels then at least have them be accurate.
This is an old slavery era notion that a drop of black blood made you black. Otherwise saying to be white you must be pure and any combination otherwise is not worthy of the title “white” .
My child is mixed race and I will never allow her to think she is one race and not the other because she is neither and both.
Barack Obama is not black he is of mixed racial parentage,there is a difference and when will people realise this?
I have literrally heard people saying they will vote for Obama because he is black. He most certainly is not black. If you run him in a computer…a middle eastern descent person is listed as white…even though many appear to be black. And to say someone is going to vote for a person based on thier “racial background” is down right silly. I want aperson representing this country who can stand up for what is right and who represents all Americans. Unfortunatly, I am not sure a person who refuses to put thier hand on the bible to swear in thier oath can say they represent Americans. While I think Hilary is a very smart Lady,I think she has too muh controversy around her to be able to do agood job. Personally, Im leaning towards the republican side.
ALL racism is evidence of a selfish heart. Racism is evidence of selfish pride and is just another symptom of the same evil which causes the hatred & strife between the English & the Irish, between Irish Catholics & Irish Protestants, between the Bloods and the Crypts, between “yanks” and “southerners”, between the people on THIS side of the tracks and the people on THAT side of the tracks.
Racism is not an isolated issue, tho in today’s context, the word Racism is almost EXCLUSIVELY used to mean the poor way too many white people treat too many black people.
To resolve this issue, we need to understand the CAUSE. The solution to this issue is to resolve issues of the heart … or man’s selfish nature.
If all we do is to resolve “racism”, we’re missing the mark for racism is not the root problem. It is but an manifestation of the root problem.
It would serve the readers well to find out the title of Darwin’s now famous book … and to research Darwin’s attitude about “black” people. It would serve people well to research what Darwin’s early followers did to Australia’s aboriginal people. Discover for yourself what influence Darwinism had on Hitler as well as on early american settlers who believed that black people were the missing link and, as a consequence of that were treated like animals.
There’s only one permanent solution to all this perceived issue of racism and that is to discover the spiritual issues which need to be resolved with Our Creator … the Creator who created the race of man and created all equal. He did NOT create a black race, a white race, an asian race but created us as “one blood”, co-equals.
It is evolution which teaches us that we are separate races and it is man’s selfish and corrupted heart which esteems one “race” more highly than another. It is hatred which creates and propagates racism and “ethnic cleansing” of any sort. ( check out the mother of Planned Parenthood and her efforts to contribute to ethnic cleansing !! )
This issue is an international issue but just called different things in different countries. Those who fail to realize & to deal with the root of the problem are destined to repeat it and to propogate it.
Barack Obama is not black. Barak Obama had a Kenyan father and an mother who was of European heritage(white?). He was raised by his MOTHER.
In my book, that makes him WHITE.
In ancient cultures, you are who your mother is.
Thats why Loni Guanier is Jewish - her children had
bat mitzvahs.
It is really puzzling why African-Americans do not
acknowledge that it was Barak’s mother who
gave him that colorblind view of society. She
taught him to look at the person NOT at the color
of their skin.
Barak Obama is NOT black. He is his mother’s son.
I agree with Irma that Barack is not black, but not for the reasons he/she gives. Genetically speaking, he is not black and I think that genetics are the only method people should use to label a person’s race. The fact is that there aren’t many people out there that aren’t mixed with something. Heck, they ran a program on PBS, a couple of years ago during black history month, in which they tested the racial makeup of several well-known celebrities. Oprah was tested, and much to her delight, it was shown that she had no white in her. Others were shown to have a mixture of other things. There was this scientist that looked like any white person you see walking around and he was shown to have 11 percent african blood in him.
There are African-Americans: either a blanket politically motivated vernacular for blacks/negroes in america or anyone descended from Africa heritage.
Then there are Black Americans: a subset of African-Americans whose life experience and culture subjected them to the bigotry and segregation culminating from America’s shameful days of slavery.
Obama ain’t Black. His dad was Kenyan, his step-dad was indonesian. He spent his life up until he was 10 in the muslim nation of Indonesia, when he then moved back to Hawaii until he graduated high school. In Hawaii, racism is more applied to the foreign white folks or ‘Haloe’ than any dark skinned person.
So Barama acting like he’s a Brother whose had sufferage? That’s just the ploy of a child who was rejected by his parents trying to fit in with the ‘cool’ kids. The kind of guy who thinks getting a tattoo and a motorcycle automatically makes him a ‘Hell’s Angel’. Acting ‘Black’ and acting like a ‘Brother’ was a lonely boy’s desparate attempt to fit in and be accepted.
And any one that thinks Obama is indeed ‘Black’, they’ve neither ever been down in the hood, nor actually been to Africa or around an immagrated African clique. The difference between Africans and Blacks are night and day. Heck, I’ve known racist Africans that look down their noses at Black Americans.
The difference is culture, not skin-color. Defining it by skin color is literally only skin deep and therefore, borderline racist in itself… like a white chick that dates the black basketball player because it will make mommy and daddy angry rather than actually being in love with the guy… it’s anti-racist.
Over-generalizations about people are often ridiculous and untrue.
that woman is 100% tru barack obama is not black he is half/cast mixed race he is coloured. in order to be black your both parents must be 100% black but he is 50% white and 50% black i am also the same as barack obama who ever calls him black is sick in the head
he’s 50/50 … ASSUMING that his mother had NO white blood in him and ASSUMING that his father had no white blood in him. My wife has indian blood in her but that don’t make her indian. I got dutch blood in me but that don’t make me dutch. She’s got mongolian blood in her but it don’t make her mongolian. My kids have “slanted” eyes but that don’t make them asian. And hey … it was Tiger Woods himself who made it clear he’s not “black”. The bro’s got a clue. Time y’all did as well !!
I have observed in England that, whereas it seems to be socially acceptable for blacks to make racist remarks about Asians, God help anyone who says anything that could be deemed racist against blacks. And imagine the outcry in the black community if the media described Barack Obama as white, ignoring his black heritage. I am Eurasian. My mixed race children, whose father does very little for them, are constantly informed by black relatives that they are black, and that asians are not good. As far as I’m concerned, this is racist, and insulting to me, as their mother, carer, provider and donor of half of their genes.
Obama is not black. He’s a “mulato” which is mix of black and white. Calling him the first black president is ridiculous because he’s not 100% black ,neither is he 100% African-American. But if it makes people feel good, so be it.
How do I know this? Because my sisters are HALF black just like Obama and they’re not BLACK because our father is white.
Rem/Dickerson are right.
Barack is not black.
Race is a social construction. He is multi-cultural or mulatto. Most so-called African-Americans are of multicultural descent.
The fact that he calls himself black is a simplification which ignores his white ancestry (mother). That’s like saying that if you have 1 drop of african blood you are black. That kind of thinking is considered racist when it was applied in our past, but I guess it is okay if Obama employs the same kind of reasoning in labeling himself as solely being black.
If the big o refers to himself as black, it would be another example of playing. He be playing the populace, leveraging all he can get out of what black implies. He be leveraging the race card. It’s so totally disingenuous, insincere and all that. He just another politician, that’s all he be. Getting the big o elected was the biggest trick white folks ever played on brothuhs cuz real black have elected a white guy to the white house and faked out the black community into thinking he be one of us !!
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