OBAMA: BLACK IS BLACK AIN'T
Ponder this, Obama did not have any African American relatives until he married Michelle. I wonder if he grow up on Soul Food at all? Ok that may be a bit trite. No, these questions do not really matter, especially not as any sort of qualification for the highest office in the land. It's only interesting to me, because though that is the case I can only assume that, looking as he looks, growing up in America since the 70s, he must have had some identical experiences of other African Americans. And because I FEAR BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA MAY HAVE NO BLACK RAGE AT ALL!! That's right. I mean, Let's not act like Blacks in America don't have anything to be angry about, even to this day. A Republican Pundit on Fox News, trying to scare the American masses, said that Obama was clearly more influenced by "Black Rage Writers" like Malcolm X than non violent advocates such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Well I say: Obama prove it! Where's that rage I think you should have? Though I'm sure Malcolm and Martin alike would be proud of Obama's diplomacy that has been more than apparent over these past 22 months.
McCain hit the nail on the head calling Obama eloquent. Obama = Eloquence. He chooses is words well, but then again he has too, and if elected he will have to for the rest of his life. It's pretty common knowledge when you are breaking down barriers and you are the "firsts" and "onlys" to do something, people are going to be looking at you to mess up, so you got to come 150% when your counterparts have to only come half that, ahhhhh the good ol' double standard. If Obama's tone more resembled that of McCain's he would get more accusations of that stereotypic, radical, angry, rage-filled Black man. (Of course, I will be much more disappointed if i find out one day that in fact Obama has no Black Rage at all, that would really be saddening).
On a lighter note: Do you think computer spell checkers will stop flagging "Barack Obama" with a red underline if he becomes president?
One of the great things about Barack Obama is that he challenges the current status quo on what race actually means. I grew up under the ideology that if you had a biological parent who was considered "black" that automatically made you black. I haven't so much changed that view over the past 6 years as much as I have refined it. As it stands "race" as we know it is a political construct that has only been in humanity for about five to six hundred years, so how a person identifies them self is truly more important than any politically imposed view of them by the outside world. Barack is the most integrated candidate to run for President that we have ever known, and while he doesn't hide the richness of his history he has spent atleast the last fifteen years of his life surrounded by African-American culture in Chicago, IL. I mean despite some human and political flaws, it's for sure that Barack is the closest thing to an 'every man' that has ever gotten this close to t he White House