[Mishmash] Obama? Oh, Please!

[Susan Flewelling]

At 12:25 PM 1/25/09, you wrote:
>At 11:48 AM 1/25/2009, you wrote:
>>At 07:02 AM 1/25/09, you wrote:
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>> From the getgo I found it disturbing that Obama claims to be black when in actuality he's a mulatto
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> "Claims to be"?  Who, in this country, would consider him something other than black?  Anyone with mixed-race blood is automatically consigned to whatever category bigots consider the lower class of human, and for a long time they were barely considered human. A "mulatto" has no choice in the matter; he's pre-designated from birth.
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>On the other hand, an ivy-league education and presidency of the law review are hardly qualities one normally associates with "lower classes", are they?


I don't know if he actually claims to be black or not - everyone says he is and I've not read he's repudiated that - I suppose technically he's neither black nor white - and claiming to be white probably have lost him a lot of votes, white and black.  However, I wasn't trying to delegate him into some sort of  "lower class" - what I find repugnant is that it appears from what I've been reading (or not reading) that he publicly turned his back on his mother's family - the family that raised him  - half the people up here don't know he's mixed race at all.  But I get tired of hearing about the "first black president" when he's actually the first mulatto president - or is that word not politically correct?

I wish I had access to more indepth news reporting up here from the States - the only reference I've seen in months and months to his mother's family was that he wasn't going to take time off from campagning to attend his grandmother's funeral.  But perhaps that was a decision his handlers made.

Susan