What is being BLACK enough? Being in a gang? Being on welfare? Being an unwed mother or father? Speaking getto jive? As a white person, tell me!
2007-07-29 04:09:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I think this whole Barack not being "Black enough" is something the media is blowing out of proportion. Most Black people I know don't say anything about Barack Obama not being Black enough. The majority of Black people will tell you that he is a Black man. Yes I'm sure a few Black people have said that. But to me Barack is a Black man. He goes to an all Black church, he's deeply rooted in the Black community in Chicago, he married a Black woman, and he has Black kids. I mean some people have a limited view of what being Black is, they think that you have to be poor, uneducated, and a felon just to be a real Black person.
2007-07-29 04:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by Amber 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll clear this up real quick. In this country if you are any part black, you are considered black. I have 3 biracial daughters and I told them this early on. Your examples of "being black enough" only strengthen my point that some white people will never let the color issue go. That is, until all the racial mixing completely obliterates the white race. Oh, happy day...
2007-07-29 05:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He touched on the race issue just a couple days ago. He did it in a great way. He didn't pull any "you should feel sorry for me" or anything like that. He talked about how atrocities see no color.
Oh and I have no clue what it means to be "black enough" thats a very ignorant way of thinking man.
2007-07-29 04:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by reelperspectiv 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a judgment call On Afro-Americans. I can think of a number of Blacks who would make Great Presidents, but in bringing up this question, Afro-Americans raise the question of whether, as a group, they are even smart enough to vote! Blacks are the real experts, the real proponents, of racial prejudice. If Obama brought it up, then he's the one playing the race card, isn't he.
2007-07-29 04:14:54 · answer #4 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think Barack Obama would do rather well if the Afro-American community got behind him now and contributed to his election. That is the problem with the majority of Afro-Americans is that they have this wait and see attitude. If they got behind the man now, he would win the presidential election, but because they won't, he won't!
2007-07-29 04:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by CRAIG C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ask the next ten black people you see on the street and ask them if Obama is black enough. I dont think you'll find any confusion amoungst thier answers.
We know Obama's black enough. Only white liberals in the media are asking that...Its kinda funny actully.
2007-07-29 04:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I grew up being labeled an Italian, though my parents and myself were born & raised here in the USA. Strange though when I visited Italy I felt like a foreigner in that country and was constantly reminded by the natives that I was an American.....and a damn proud one at that. So....apparently I am not Italian enough for Italian born people and so terribly American. Afro-Americans.....act like Americans, you were not born in Africa. Stop the ethnic BS.
2007-07-29 04:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
whoa. you crossed the line. being black enough does not entail what you wrote!! there are whites, hispanics, etc on WELFARE, GANGS, ETC!! get your stereotypes straight, pal!!
2007-07-29 05:01:05 · answer #8 · answered by 100% ♥Creole♥ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because i am white he looked like he was black to me, only he seems to be well spoken, articulate, educated and successful.....damn i may even vote for his black a**
2007-07-29 04:14:44 · answer #9 · answered by Twinkie Thief 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
what are you talking about?
2007-07-29 04:32:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋