Obama isn't black enough, or isn't white enough?

Question

I wonder why Obama calls himself? Black or white?

If he calls himself Black, does he insult his white mother?

If he calls himself White, do we call him crazy?

Does it matter?

http://www.MockElections.org

Answer 1

DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT HE CALLS HIMSELF BUT LIKE MOST BIRACIAL OR MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE HE PROBABLY DOESN'T TRY TO CHOOSE A SIDE BUT EMBRACES BOTH CULTURES THAT BUILDS HIS BELIEF SYSTEM AND CREATES THE PATTERNS TO LEAD HIS DECISIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
AND WHY WOULD YOU ASK THIS QUESTION AFTER YOUR ANSWER TO THE LAST?

Answer 2

you have basically defined why he's proper. he's no longer an previous black guy like me, who won't be in a position to offer up Emmit till, Scwerner, Chaney and Goodman and of direction the indications. yet that's a sturdy difficulty. a lot of think of he's no longer black adequate via fact he does not sense that. As such, being raised via his white grandparents, has imparted an skill to make actual coalitions with white human beings. The Aloha spirit is the place his trouble-free cool comes from. interior the top, i think of it is an benefit.

Answer 3

It's pretty silly stuff, since 90% of blacks vote democrat.

I thought the Daily Show had a funny spin on it - Obama doesn't want to be seen as the black candidate, because for every 3 black voters you attract, you drive away 5 white voters.

Answer 4

Jake B
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

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 5

You should call him a socialist global elite. Obama wants to take away your guns, take away your freedom of speech, take away your Constitution. Obama is a globalist who is working to destroy this country and enslave you. Stop buying into the black/white, left/right lies the media is feeding you. Wake up and see the world for what it really is. Stop sleeping and see that the Two Evils really ARE evil are working to destroy your country and enslave you! Don't believe their LIES! THEY ARE NOT HERE TO HELP YOU! THEY ARE HERE TO ENSLAVE YOU!

They put mercury in your vaccines for Christ sake!

FIGHT THE NEW WORLD ORDER! DON'T VOTE FOR EITHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS! VOTE FOR PATRIOTS! VOTE CONSTITUTION PARTY OR LIBERTARIAN PARTY!

Answer 6

president I love saying the President of the USA it better than being called a humane stain he called what AA was call not by choice for six hundreds years

Answer 7

I think he calls himself runner-up.I'm voting for Hillary.

Answer 8

Doesnt really matter,

But he hasnt proved anything to me,

Still doesnt have my vote

Answer 9

Who cares--we need to stop this idiotic stuff already.

Answer 10

I think he's human enough!