Posted on Dec 11, 2015

Is Obama really our first "Black" president? After all he is half white half black.

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I don't have an article or anything related to this question....but I do have a story.
I had a client long ago and was at her house when Obama was running for president the first time. She is Black and very proud of it. I knew her for nearly 10 years.
As long as I've known her, she's had a huge issue with black men who date and or marry white girls. She had a son who married a white gal and she dis owned him. It wasn't my business so I never said anything.
While sitting in her make shift beauty salon out of her garage talking to her while she was doing someone's hair, I made the comment "what do you think of that Obama fella?"
She replied...I love him! I'm going to vote for him! He's going to CHANGE the world and he's going to make it better for us black folks.
My next comment killed our relationship.
I said, you do know his mother was white, right? I thought you were totally against that, after all you dis owned your own son for marrying a white girl.
She replied....he's more black then he is white and he acts more black and I know he's all for the black people.

So...my question is Do you feel Obama is really our first black president? Why do we consider him "BLACK" when he is Black and white?

Because I'm trying to understand the mentality of people. How does a person go their whole lives not liking half breeds...totally against it, but when someone runs for president, everything they've preached for years goes out of the window?

JUST CURIOUS.... Wondering what other's thoughts are on this. I'm a half breed and proud of it and when asked I check "OTHER" and write in white and Asian....and I am not prejudice. My best friend is black and we've had this discussion...with differences...so we decided to agree to disagree. LOL

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SGT David T.

Posted 9 y ago

Being a mutt myself I can say well he is a mutt, just like most of us lol. I never really cared much about his racial composition. He has no control over that. What he does have control over is who he is and how he acts. That is what I judge someone on.

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CPT Jack Durish

Posted 9 y ago

President Obama is "black" inasmuch as he self-identifies as black even though he is of mixed race parentage. It shouldn't be an issue but it is. Why? Well, it is largely the reason he was elected. He had no discernible qualifications to be present (which fact has become sadly evident during the course of his Administration). No leadership skills. No decision-making skills (remember he voted "Present" more often than not as a legislator). More importantly, no apparent allegiance to the nation or its Constitution (he has frequently lamented the constitutional restrictions that prevent him from doing what he thinks should be done). Still, we elected him and then reelected him even after faced with irrefutable proof of his lack of skills. His empty promise of "Hope and Change" was a canard. Thus we keep coming back to his only qualification: He is "black". I have spoken with many who voted for him for that very reason to "prove" they weren't prejudiced, or out of a sense of guilt, or for many other causes that have nothing to do with a rational selection of a chief executive. To be honest, although I didn't vote for him and expected the worst, I at least expected that his election would put some kind of a punctuation point on the Civil Rights movement. There! We elected a black. Can we now move on? Well, no. In fact, he has exacerbated the strife between the races by stirring the racial pot at every chance. Of course, all that I say proves that I'm a racist and may be dismissed without any thought or consideration. Right? Sad...

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SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT

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I would venture he is not first president to have African in their genes.
Not to mention that fact that theory says man originated in Present day Africa

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PO3 Phyllis Maynard

7 y

SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT as well as the research that puts the cradle of civilization in Africa and the beginning if civilization remains as those of Eve the mother of all creation as being of Negroid characteristics, there was a lot of slipping around on the plantations. I have coffee brown complexion and my now deceased grandmothers (paternal and maternal) both had very light skin, no tan, long straight hair, hazel and green eyes respectively, and neither spoke with a slave dialect.

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Capt Seid Waddell

Posted 9 y ago

Wasn't Bill Clinton the first black president?

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/clinton-honored-first-black-president-black-caucus-dinner

Clinton Honored As 'First Black President' at Black Caucus Dinner

(CNSNews.com) - Former President Bill Clinton was honored as the nation's first black president Saturday at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Annual Awards Dinner on in Washington, DC. The chair of the all-Democratic caucus, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.), told the crowd that Clinton "took so many initiatives he made us think for a while we had elected the first black president."

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