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theobserver -> RE: transcending racial prejudice (11/9/2008 7:27:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead
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ORIGINAL: theobserver
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ORIGINAL: bestbabync
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ORIGINAL: camille65
Doesn't he call himself black?
Are you the one that determines what he is permitted to call himself now?
for Christ sake! people speak of racism and how it should not exist, then they put labels on themselves and others. they dangle it and say to the world, "look, we now have a black president!" just like the political party arguement. both the dems & pubs vote most time the same. we are all americans not black, white etc.
since i have such a mixed racial background i consider myself an american, not black or white.
You are how old, again? 46, I do believe when you were younger the overall consensus in this country was one drop. You would be considered black.
Today it works like this ...
When you are Black and you are a symbol of grand achievement or beauty, you are not really black ie Tiger Woods, Obama, Halle Berry and ect or you are exceptional; an anomaly ... well maybe if we reach back a bit more we'll find some proof that you aren't really %100 African black.
However, the first time you fuck up ... you black again ...
Gary Dourdan.
I'm just speaking truth. Care to do the same?
Interesting. My kids are half white American and half Sri Lankan. Does that make them "all Asian?"
It makes them what they define themselves as. I was specifically addressing her because she continuously brings up the fact that she and Obama are Biracial and how it is for her to fit in between both worlds. This is just the kind of thinking of what I'd like to call the tragic "Sarah Jane" (replaced with the other word I'd rather not use).
Which is really exclusive to biracial blacks in this country and I don't think it's something that's yet fully understood by others. It's way too deep to get into on this thread.
Obama, refers to himself as a black man. That is his choice. If she doesn't want to, that is her choice, but most of her ire when she first addressed me on this thread and elsewhere was directed at Black people. She stated that blacks were racist against her and that blacks, were rally crying at a show she went to after the election.
Her point was that, Obama's not black he's biracial and we all need to stop talking about color and I was simply stating that she is 46 and when she was little the general consensus of the white establish and overall white society in this country was, not to distinguish being black and biracial or not.
If you had one parent or a grandparent (and so on) that was of African descent then you were considered black ... period.
You and yours can classify yourself anyway you like.
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