
This 1960's file photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama with his mother Stanley Ann Dunham. The Kansas-born mother, the Kenyan-born father, Barack Obama Sr., met at the University of Hawaii. They marriage, and Barack, "blessed" in Arabic, was born on Aug. 4, 1961. (AP Photo/Obama Presidential Campaign, File)
AP: Many Insisting That Obama Is Not Black
JESSE WASHINGTON | December 14, 2008 12:27 AM EST |
A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama’s racial saga: Many people insist that “the first black president” is actually not black.
Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial _ or, in Obama’s own words, a “mutt” _ has reached a crescendo since Obama’s election shattered assumptions about race.
Obama has said, “I identify as African-American _ that’s how I’m treated and that’s how I’m viewed. I’m proud of it.” In other words, the world gave Obama no choice but to be black, and he was happy to oblige.
But the world has changed since the young Obama found his place in it.
Intermarriage and the decline of racism are dissolving ancient definitions. The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black.
So what now for racial categories born of a time when those from far-off lands were property rather than people, or enemy instead of family?
“They’re falling apart,” said Marty Favor, a Dartmouth professor of African and African-American studies and author of the book “Authentic Blackness.”
“In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois said the question of the 20th century is the question of the color line, which is a simplistic black-white thing,” said Favor, who is biracial. “This is the moment in the 21st century when we’re stepping across that.”
Bloggin on Arthur Scheuerman’s Blog
Posted in Commentary, tagged Arthur Scheuerman, wtc7 on December 14, 2008| 1 Comment »
This is Arthur Scheuerman with Pomaroo and Gravy,self proclaimed debunkers, from The James Randy Foundation “JREF”. Arthur now has a blog which he started in August 2008 called Why the 9/11 buildings collapsed.
This is the same Arthur Scheuerman that is going around to all the blogs to copy/paste his irrelevent tripe. He wrote a book, “Fire in the Skyscraper” which goes out of the way to promote the oficial government story. I met him on Suzie-Q’s blog where I am one of the posters, where he pasted some long winded comments on my article called Architects & Engineersfor 9/11 Truth! This was in Aug. 2007. On November 8, 2007 I posted “Who is Arthur Scheuerman“, with an ongoing commentary that Arthur commented on untill November 8, 2007.
Here are a few more articles on Suzie-Q’s that concern Arthur Scheuerman.
Here’s Mr. Scheuerman on my blog “geezerpower” called
Arthur Scheuerman Discusses WTC7
This is Arthur Dec. 12, 2008 on Home Nature Report…
NIST’s analysis of freefall speed vs David Chandler
WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall
Here’s Arthur on “geezerpower” called
Arthur Scheuerman Discusses WTC7
And here is the latest comments on Home Nature Report…
NIST’s analysis of freefall speed vs David Chandler
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