I am getting sick and tired of how black people are acting about Obama

[ChumpDumper]

oh don't worry chump lol. I will add you if you would like

Sorry, whites only.

[BRHornet45]

Sorry, whites only.

racist

[ChumpDumper]

racist

I stood up and claimed Obama as a white person, so he's on my friends list.

[Mr. Peabody]

First off, I am LATINO.

Secondly I just don't appreciate the fact that the black community expects a pat on the back because ONE of them is an outstanding individual.
I guess when your race fills up the prisons, has the most out of wedlock children, and drains the coffers of the government with absurd social problems you have to fill proud about something.

Obviously, you aren't aware of the respect Bill Richardson gets in the Latino community (and his last name is "Richardson"!). He's half-white, but who ing cares? He's accomplished in the national political arena and quite frankly, we don't have many role models in that arena.

As far as your criticisms of the Black community (children out of wedlock, draining coffers of government, etc.), maybe we should get our own house in order before we criticize others.

[JoeChalupa]

It comes from years and years of suppresion. Get over it.

[Mr. Peabody]

A New Kind of Pride

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, November 4, 2008; A17

Whoever wins this election, I understand what Barack Obama meant when he said his faith in the American people had been "vindicated" by his campaign's success. I understand what Mic e Obama meant, months ago, when she said she was "proud of my country" for the first time in her adult life. Why should they be immune to the astonishment and vertigo that so many other African Americans are experiencing? Why shouldn't they have to pinch themselves to make sure they aren't dreaming, the way that I do?

I know there's a possibility that the polls are wrong. I know there's a possibility that white Americans, when push comes to shove, won't be able to bring themselves to elect a black man as president of the United States. But the spread in the polls is so great that the Bradley effect wouldn't be enough to make Obama lose; it would take a kind of "Dr. Strangelove effect" in which voters' hands developed a will of their own.

I'm being facetious but not unserious. In my gut, I know there's a chance that the first African American to make a serious run for the presidency will lose. But that is precisely what's new and, in a sense, unsettling: I'm talking about possibility, not inevitability.

For African Americans, at least those of us old enough to have lived through the civil rights movement, this is nothing short of mind-blowing. It's disorienting, and it makes me see this nation in a different light.

You see, I remember a time of separate and unequal schools, restrooms and water fountains -- a time when black people were officially second-class citizens. I remember moments when African Americans were hopeful and excited about the political process, and I remember other moments when most of us were depressed and disillusioned. But I can't think of a single moment, before this year, when I thought it was within the realm of remote possibility that a black man could be nominated for president by one of the major parties -- let alone that he would go into Election Day with a better-than-even chance of winning.

Let me clarify: It's not that I would have calculated the odds of an African American being elected president and concluded that this was unlikely; it's that I wouldn't even have thought about such a thing.

African Americans' love of country is deep, intense and abiding, but necessarily complicated. At the hour of its birth, the nation was already stained by the Original Sin of slavery. Only in the past several decades has legal racism been outlawed and casual racism been made unacceptable, at least in polite company. Millions of black Americans have managed to pull themselves up into mainstream, middle-class affluence, but millions of others remain mired in poverty and dysfunction.

A few black Americans broke through into the highest echelons of American society. Oprah Winfrey became the most powerful woman in the entertainment industry by appealing to an audience that is mostly white. Richard Parsons, Stanley O'Neal and others became alpha males in the lily-white world of Wall Street. Through superhuman skill and unbending will, Tiger Woods came to dominate a sport long seen as emblematic of white privilege.

Along came Barack Obama, a young man with an unassailable résumé and a message of post-racial transformation. Initially, a big majority of African Americans lined up behind his major opponent in the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton. The reason was simple: In the final analysis, white Americans weren't going to vote for the black guy. Better to go with the safe alternative.

But an amazing thing happened. In the Iowa caucuses, white Americans voted for the black guy. That's the moment Obama was referring to when he said his faith in the American people was vindicated. For me, it was the moment when the utterly impossible became merely unlikely. That's a fundamental change, and it launched a sequence of events over the subsequent months that made me realize that some things I "knew" about America were apparently wrong.

Even if John McCain somehow prevails, that won't change the fact that Obama won all those primaries, or that he won the Democratic Party nomination, or that he raised more money than any candidate in history, or that he rewrote the book on how to run a presidential campaign. Nothing can change the fact that so many white Americans entrusted a black American with their hopes and dreams.

We can all have a new kind of pride in our country.

[byrontx]

There's something wrong with being half-black? So I am...from the waist down.

[TDMVPDPOY]

obama is like an oreo, black on the outside, white in the inside.....a white man trap in a black mans body....

hey even if he wins, his just another puppet anyway

[~~~~~~]

son just imagine if a white leader or "white groups" came out claiming Barack as white ... or claiming Tiger Woods as white .... or Halle Berry as white ..... the list goes on. you know damn well would hit the fan and that white leader or persons would be considered a racist. However, it is perfectly ok for people like Sharpton, Jackson, and the NAACP to take FULL credit for ANYONE who is biracial and claim them as african americans.

Yep. Tiger Woods is ethnically/racially/genetically more Asian than Black. His dad was of mixed Black, Chinese & Native American descent ethnically/racially/genetically; his mom is ethnically/racially/genetically Asian (Thai). Yet the media and African-American community almost exclusively labels Tiger Woods as African-American.

[Bartleby]

This thread reminds me of that skit on Chappelle's show where the races have an NBA style draft.

[Shastafarian]

Maybe it is the culture of our history. If you had ANY black ancestry you were considered less of a person and were deemed part of that racial group. I guess a few morons in this thread have no knowledge of this country's history.

[Shastafarian]

This thread reminds me of that skit on Chappelle's show where the races have an NBA style draft.

I was floored when white people selected Colin Powell. Didn't see it coming.

[Oh, Gee!!]

This thread reminds me of that skit on Chappelle's show where the races have an NBA style draft.

exactly.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Didn't the Asians get Tiger Woods? That was a major coup.

[Oh, Gee!!]

It's funny how a man raised by his white family is being claimed by the black race as usual.

as usual? I can't remember a similar situation in the past, unless you wanna count Willis and Arnold Drummond.

I do NOT want to hear 4 years of racist bull being shot out of black people during his reign of terror.

You'd rather beat everybody else to the punch?

[DarkReign]

chump er ... son on a side note, will you be in New Orleans for the game this week? I look forward to watching my Hornets beat down your Hawks

Noob.

[ploto]

Nothing can change the fact that so many white Americans entrusted a black American with their hopes and dreams.

[ploto]

It's funny how a man raised by his white family is being claimed by the black race as usual. Obama's pathetic father knocked up his mom, then like a black man ran off! I do NOT want to hear 4 years of racist bull being shot out of black people during his reign of terror.

Starting in 1910, most states switched to a “racial” determination criterion based on the mere possibility that a person had a Black ancestor, no matter how long ago. The color line thus became unrelated to appearance, association or blood fraction. Indeed, it became unrelated to anything tangible or provable. It became defined by the one-drop rule.

[Shastafarian]

Maybe it is the culture of our history. If you had ANY black ancestry you were considered less of a person and were deemed part of that racial group. I guess a few morons in this thread have no knowledge of this country's history.

Starting in 1910, most states switched to a “racial” determination criterion based on the mere possibility that a person had a Black ancestor, no matter how long ago. The color line thus became unrelated to appearance, association or blood fraction. Indeed, it became unrelated to anything tangible or provable. It became defined by the one-drop rule.

See!

[spurster]

My employer has already said our pay will be reduced because of obamas "tax cuts."

Your employer is an idiot.

[Cry Havoc]

Sigh, much as I hate to admit it, I am a little annoyed at the African American community's reaction to these events.

Over 90% of our black workers have called off work or called in sick today. And I understand why. But I don't agree with it. They're putting a stress on the company I work for and now as a supervisor I have to call a huge list of numbers and explain to other people why they should have to work on their off day, or put in a double. It's ludicrous.

[ClintSquint]

Hey, it is not everyday that history is made and people call in for much stupider reasons.

[ratm1221]

My employer has already said our pay will be reduced because of obamas "tax cuts."

I'm calling BS on this one.

[LnGrrrR]

Sigh, much as I hate to admit it, I am a little annoyed at the African American community's reaction to these events.

Over 90% of our black workers have called off work or called in sick today. And I understand why. But I don't agree with it. They're putting a stress on the company I work for and now as a supervisor I have to call a huge list of numbers and explain to other people why they should have to work on their off day, or put in a double. It's ludicrous.

You know, I'm surprised this isn't a federal holiday already. I mean, it only comes once every four years. It's good we have early voting in place; that makes sense. To expect everyone to have one day of the year to vote is somewhat asinine.

[boutons_]

A black guy won the F1 championship last weekend



http://cgi.cnnsi.com/2008/racing/mor....ap/index.html

First black, youngest winner.