Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither?

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what's the brown paper bag test? we don't have that in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism#Afri...e_United_States

[MrsCat 6]

what's the brown paper bag test? we don't have that in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism#Afri...e_United_States

OMFG!

I had to send in a picture with my law school application . . . . . . they never did say what that was for. . . . . . . . .

Edited December 13, 2008 by MrsCat

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

what's the brown paper bag test? we don't have that in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism#Afri...e_United_States

OMFG!

I had to send in a picture with my law school application . . . . . . they never did say what that was for. . . . . . . . .

[Nagishkaw 510]

[kaydee457 13]

Yes, keep posting all the irrelevant. Well, this may have relevance to your generation, it sure doesn't to me. And sure I hope that this sort of ####### has no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country when my bi-racial daughter reaches adulthood. She has the right to be judged as the person she will be regardless of what color her skin is or what color the skin of her parents happens to be. This just a bunch of useless nonsense that you - married to an African lady yourself - should be ashamed to peddle.

Um, I offered up no opinion.....It's just an article I saw on Yahoo homepage that I thought interesting....Frankly, my opinion is that holding himself up to be an "African American", but not having the same experiences as AA's, is sort of disingenuous...

I think you're referring to another thread whereby he himself mused that if he were not black, or at least believed to be so by the left media, he wouldn't have the celebrity that propelled him into the presidency with no experience, no tangible accomplishments that anyone can find other than, as Hillary put it, "he gave a speech".......

I personally have no problem with his color or his declared race one way or the other. I do have a problem with the way it was used to propel him to the highest office in this nation and the most powerful job in the world.....

No, I'm not at all ashamed and it has nothing to do with my generation....everything to do with the use of race to trump all other shortcomings a candidate may have, particularly experience and accomplishments, and to elevate that person to some arbitrary plateau solely based on race, even abandoning gender.

This election was skewed by a corrupt liberal media and a populist movement, one that as a person of a different generation have seen before. Trust me on that!

[Scott & Lai 12]

"For others it's a ploy to sort of reclaim the presidency for whiteness, as though Obama's blackness is somehow mitigated by being biracial."

I agree.

Who iare these unnamed "others" trying to "reclaim the presidency for whiteness"?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes, keep posting all the irrelevant. Well, this may have relevance to your generation, it sure doesn't to me. And sure I hope that this sort of ####### has no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country when my bi-racial daughter reaches adulthood. She has the right to be judged as the person she will be regardless of what color her skin is or what color the skin of her parents happens to be. This just a bunch of useless nonsense that you - married to an African lady yourself - should be ashamed to peddle.

Um, I offered up no opinion.....It's just an article I saw on Yahoo homepage that I thought interesting....Frankly, my opinion is that holding himself up to be an "African American", but not having the same experiences as AA's, is sort of disingenuous...

I think you're referring to another thread whereby he himself mused that if he were not black, or at least believed to be so by the left media, he wouldn't have the celebrity that propelled him into the presidency with no experience, no tangible accomplishments that anyone can find other than, as Hillary put it, "he gave a speech".......

I personally have no problem with his color or his declared race one way or the other. I do have a problem with the way it was used to propel him to the highest office in this nation and the most powerful job in the world.....

No, I'm not at all ashamed and it has nothing to do with my generation....everything to do with the use of race to trump all other shortcomings a candidate may have, particularly experience and accomplishments, and to elevate that person to some arbitrary plateau solely based on race, even abandoning gender.

This election was skewed by a corrupt liberal media and a populist movement, one that as a person of a different generation have seen before. Trust me on that!

That's total shite. Obama didn't run his campaign on the basis of race. That blacks voted for him overwhelmingly is no different to the white evangelists who always vote republican.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Yes, keep posting all the irrelevant. Well, this may have relevance to your generation, it sure doesn't to me. And sure I hope that this sort of ####### has no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country when my bi-racial daughter reaches adulthood. She has the right to be judged as the person she will be regardless of what color her skin is or what color the skin of her parents happens to be. This just a bunch of useless nonsense that you - married to an African lady yourself - should be ashamed to peddle.

Um, I offered up no opinion.....It's just an article I saw on Yahoo homepage that I thought interesting....Frankly, my opinion is that holding himself up to be an "African American", but not having the same experiences as AA's, is sort of disingenuous...

I think you're referring to another thread whereby he himself mused that if he were not black, or at least believed to be so by the left media, he wouldn't have the celebrity that propelled him into the presidency with no experience, no tangible accomplishments that anyone can find other than, as Hillary put it, "he gave a speech".......

I personally have no problem with his color or his declared race one way or the other. I do have a problem with the way it was used to propel him to the highest office in this nation and the most powerful job in the world.....

No, I'm not at all ashamed and it has nothing to do with my generation....everything to do with the use of race to trump all other shortcomings a candidate may have, particularly experience and accomplishments, and to elevate that person to some arbitrary plateau solely based on race, even abandoning gender.

This election was skewed by a corrupt liberal media and a populist movement, one that as a person of a different generation have seen before. Trust me on that!

That's total shite. Obama didn't run his campaign on the basis of race. That blacks voted for him overwhelmingly is no different to the white evangelists who always vote republican.

False analogy.

Voting for someone because you agree with their views is not the same as voting for someone because they are the same color as you...

Edited December 14, 2008 by Scott & Lai

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes, keep posting all the irrelevant. Well, this may have relevance to your generation, it sure doesn't to me. And sure I hope that this sort of ####### has no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country when my bi-racial daughter reaches adulthood. She has the right to be judged as the person she will be regardless of what color her skin is or what color the skin of her parents happens to be. This just a bunch of useless nonsense that you - married to an African lady yourself - should be ashamed to peddle.

Um, I offered up no opinion.....It's just an article I saw on Yahoo homepage that I thought interesting....Frankly, my opinion is that holding himself up to be an "African American", but not having the same experiences as AA's, is sort of disingenuous...

I think you're referring to another thread whereby he himself mused that if he were not black, or at least believed to be so by the left media, he wouldn't have the celebrity that propelled him into the presidency with no experience, no tangible accomplishments that anyone can find other than, as Hillary put it, "he gave a speech".......

I personally have no problem with his color or his declared race one way or the other. I do have a problem with the way it was used to propel him to the highest office in this nation and the most powerful job in the world.....

No, I'm not at all ashamed and it has nothing to do with my generation....everything to do with the use of race to trump all other shortcomings a candidate may have, particularly experience and accomplishments, and to elevate that person to some arbitrary plateau solely based on race, even abandoning gender.

This election was skewed by a corrupt liberal media and a populist movement, one that as a person of a different generation have seen before. Trust me on that!

That's total shite. Obama didn't run his campaign on the basis of race. That blacks voted for him overwhelmingly is no different to the white evangelists who always vote republican.

False analogy.

Voting for someone because you agree with their views is not the same as voting for someone because they are the same color as you...

You don't think there's a racial component to that too?

Its not really a false analogy is it...

[Scott & Lai 12]

Yes, keep posting all the irrelevant. Well, this may have relevance to your generation, it sure doesn't to me. And sure I hope that this sort of ####### has no relevance whatsoever to anyone in this country when my bi-racial daughter reaches adulthood. She has the right to be judged as the person she will be regardless of what color her skin is or what color the skin of her parents happens to be. This just a bunch of useless nonsense that you - married to an African lady yourself - should be ashamed to peddle.

Um, I offered up no opinion.....It's just an article I saw on Yahoo homepage that I thought interesting....Frankly, my opinion is that holding himself up to be an "African American", but not having the same experiences as AA's, is sort of disingenuous...

I think you're referring to another thread whereby he himself mused that if he were not black, or at least believed to be so by the left media, he wouldn't have the celebrity that propelled him into the presidency with no experience, no tangible accomplishments that anyone can find other than, as Hillary put it, "he gave a speech".......

I personally have no problem with his color or his declared race one way or the other. I do have a problem with the way it was used to propel him to the highest office in this nation and the most powerful job in the world.....

No, I'm not at all ashamed and it has nothing to do with my generation....everything to do with the use of race to trump all other shortcomings a candidate may have, particularly experience and accomplishments, and to elevate that person to some arbitrary plateau solely based on race, even abandoning gender.

This election was skewed by a corrupt liberal media and a populist movement, one that as a person of a different generation have seen before. Trust me on that!

That's total shite. Obama didn't run his campaign on the basis of race. That blacks voted for him overwhelmingly is no different to the white evangelists who always vote republican.

False analogy.

Voting for someone because you agree with their views is not the same as voting for someone because they are the same color as you...

You don't think there's a racial component to that too?

Its not really a false analogy is it...

It's only a correct analogy if there is, in fact, a racial component to it; I'm not convinced there is. I think the evangelists vote Republican because the Republicans support their views. Now, if they voted for a white candidate who didn't share their views when there was a black candidate running who did share their views, then you would have a point.

Edited December 14, 2008 by Scott & Lai

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Evangelical Christians almost always vote for republican candidates. Candidates who almost always happen to be white.

[HAL 9000 96]

Evangelical Christians almost always vote for republican candidates. Candidates who almost always happen to be white.

While I do agree with Scott that on the surface- it appears the vote is based on platform... common sense dictates that within that vote there is the added history that many white evangelicals tend to have a stereotypical racial component to their behavior that is unmistakable.

[Fandango 1,439]

Evangelical Christians almost always vote for republican candidates. Candidates who almost always happen to be white.

Almost always? So when the repub candidate is not white, what do those Evangelicals do?

[Fandango 1,439]

For someone who apparently abhors the race card, kaydee seems to have no problem playing it himself. His obsession with a man who has yet to take office is surely rising to the level of a mental disorder.

I thought it was a v interesting article....people seem to be denying his blackness due to being raised by a white woman. Interesting stuff if you ask me.

[HAL 9000 96]

Evangelical Christians almost always vote for republican candidates. Candidates who almost always happen to be white.

Almost always? So when the repub candidate is not white, what do those Evangelicals do?

We'll see when there is a notable non-white Republican candidate that gets a Presidential nomination.