In Light Of Obama, Can U Picture A Black President?

Question

It's something that our people never really thought was possible. Can a black man be seen as a MAN, and Comander and Chief at that? It's a consept some people may have to get used to, and others are thankful the day has finally come.

Carly: I'm not sure what you mean by "black" enough. But Obama is a black man, and as far as this black woman is concerned that's ALWAYS black enough.

Answer 1

I think Obama put it best, "If I'm outside your building trying to catch a cab," he told Charlie Rose, "they're not saying, 'Oh, there's a mixed race guy.'"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1584736,00.html

Black, white, green, brown, whatever, once people got to know him in Illinois, they liked him as a man.

Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that he's not worried about how he will fare with fellow African-Americans should he launch a bid for the presidency, as he is expected to do in February.

"If you look at my black vote in my U.S. Senate race or my approval ratings back in Illinois," Obama (D-Ill.) said, "I feel pretty confident that, once folks know who I am, we'll do just fine."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0701260106jan26,1,1462426.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

In the Illinois senate race, he appealed to even the most conservative districts: "He recalled Sunday that when he successfully ran for the Senate in Illinois two years ago, he was well-received in downstate Cairo, Ill., a city which had been racially segregated in the late 1960s and which used to have a white separatist White Citizens’ Council.

“Southern Illinois is the South,” Obama explained to an audience of Yankees in Portsmouth, N.H. “It’s closer to Little Rock or Memphis than it is to Chicago.”

In the 1960s, Cairo was “the site of some of the worst racial violence of any place in the nation, as bad as anything going on in Mississippi or Alabama,” Obama said.

Some Illinois Democrats, he recalled, were worried in 2004 that a black candidate from Chicago named Obama was “not going to sell downstate.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16177866/

These polls saying Hillary is leading Obama mean nothing. It's too early. After people get to know him, the numbers will change.

Answer 2

I like the guy; he's a breath of fresh air. The problem is, he is not white enough or black enough. That will be a big hurdle to cross. Oh, I am so hoping to see a debate between Queen Hillary and Obama. I think he would really do his homework and wax her. Also, I think the young people in this country are tired of seeing old white men making all the decisions. They will vote for the first time in their lives, and I think it will be for the young and energetic Obama. Watch.... the hawks out there will give me thumbs down on this, like I really give a rat's a**.

Answer 3

Yes, Colin Powell.

Answer 4

This will eventually become a nonissue. I just can't believe someones skin color will determine how well they can lead the country. Seriously, thats just embarrasing to think people have that thought.

Answer 5

well i think that one day there will be but i think that a white woman will get in be for a black man

Answer 6

As an african american, and conversing from my lifestyle, Obama is black because our race is an admixture race. reckoning on which area an african american became born in relies upon on how blended they are. the final african american is blended with 24% cacausian. In Georgia to SOuth Carolina black quite everyone seems 3-4% cacausian, going higher north the share boost. In Mississippi and Illinois the volume hits 28%, once you flow extra north it is going to 30%. you will discover those adjustments once you study black human beings interior the north to black human beings interior the south, black human beings interior the south have a tendency to have extra effective curves, than us black human beings interior the north. in case you flow extra west, black human beings commence to get blended with interior of reach american and mexican. actually, about 50 million white human beings have a million black ancestor. ANd there are a kind of mexican human beings that are 3% black. the final african american also has 2.5% of interior of reach american in them. One huge element that permits you perceive if a black man or woman is blended or not is even as an african american's hair receives moist. unlike maximum of our west/ sub- saharan opposite numbers, even as a black man or woman's hair receives moist it has a tendency to curve up. actually there are a kind of black human beings in this u . s . which have numerous curl kinds on their head. West african's hair has a tendency to stay in a kinky section, so even as they do wash in is going, they from time to time ought to so a touch extra artwork to get the curl definition they prefer. Being an african united statesa., even as a african american dates and African we've a tendency to call that an interracial relationship. So it really is logical to assert that Obama is black/african american, because his mom is a white woman from kansas.

Answer 7

My top three List of A GOOD POTENTIAL BLACK PRESIDENT

50Cent
Oprah
Samuel Jackson(if he permanantly played the part of Jules in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction).

Answer 8

Yes I could! And I think I will see one in my lifetime. I do not think he is it. Also, I do not think we would put a Muslim in office in my lifetime either.

Answer 9

Yes, of course I can picture it.