Obama!
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- creez0
obama is the shit
- 7point340
vespa,
i have a friend who has/had that problem too. it really bothered him because he felt he didn't fit in anywhere. he was obviously asian, and that hertitage was incredibly important to him, but a lot of his asian friends said he looked white.
- 7point340
i never got the impression that he was running for the title of "first black president" unlike clinton who gave me the impression everyday that she was running for "first woman president"
the right candidate won.
good on him.
- vespa0
i'm mixed race. white people call me asian and asian people call me white! ah well. everyone will look like me one day!
- that wouldn't be a bad thing ;Dkelpie
- yay!vespa
- agreed.janne76
- +1 :Pkezza_2
- plus several million.paraselene
- NT'rs call you vespa!!!e-pill
- And some of us just call you Australianthebottlerocket
- Could be worse, Vespa - you could be a ginger - we're pretty much universally reviled/feared by all races.Nairn
- aw youse guys... *sniff*vespa
- i used to get loads of racist names growing up in australia bottlerocket!vespa
- Revered not reviled nairn!vespa
- that would be hothallelujah
- Tell me who said those things and I will go round and beat them up for you.thebottlerocket
- aw fanks bottlerocket. don't worry i beat them up myself...vespa
- mimeartist_com0
I wish it wasn't so focussed on what colour he is or isn't... as zaq said, he seems like a bloke who wants to get it right for the people, rather than an ego trip, help out his mates, or that he doesn't really need to work, so he thought he'd go for presidency
- creative-0
I'm mixed race. More people have labeled me black than have labeled me mixed. No-one has ever labeled me white. I see myself as mixed as to say I am black effectively disregards a hugely important part of my heritage. This should also apply to Barack and Lewis etc.
- blacktino?robotron3k
- thats exactly what i was trying to say above
tedismyfav
- zaq0
He won his presidency not as a black American but as a reasoning American who happens to be black.
- very true.sea_sea
- too muchcreez
- Not if you ask Black people.404NotFound
- um he's just as much black as he is white....ppl just pick the minority. Amazing is amazing regardlesstedismyfav
- by pick I mean choose to call him black when they could just as easily call him white.tedismyfav
- Jimbo82
Well done America! I think the majority of the free world feels like a fantastic thing has happened, and hopefully relations between America and the rest of the world will greatly improve!
Now I'm probably going to throw myself open to abuse here from people getting the wrong end of the stick, but couldn't Obama be equally considered as another white President? His mum is white and his dad is black, yet he is referred to as a black man. I suppose if you are to be technical about it, then he is mixed race, or of bi-orogin.
After reading a little about it, it seems that the age old ideology of 'one drop of black blood makes you not white' is still prevalent today. So when people refer to Obama as black are they unknowingly enforcing/encouraging racism? Is it that those of mixed race feel the need to find their identity and for most it is black culture that welcomes them more? Similar comparisons can be drawn to Lewis Hamilton or Tiger Woods, although Tiger Woods does not call himself black. Just thought it was an interesting debate and possibly something that the world needs to place more thought on.
Here are some links...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/…
It's a bit heavy but interesting!
Go Obama! Yay!