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President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

LazersGoPEWPEW

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Hey, they're both black :rolleyes:.

Brett

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I'm appalled that you'd make a comparison between them. SHOCKED EVEN.
 

xj220

Will fly for food.
pilot
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Just saw Carlito's Way not too long ago. Man his character was such a tool.
 

Fog

Old RIOs never die: They just can't fast-erect
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Hey, they're both black :rolleyes:.

Brett

Mr. Obama is half-white. Somewhere in this presidency & dog 'n pony show environment we live in, it has been completely forgotten that his mother was white & he was substantially raised by his white maternal grandparents.
 

eddie

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Mr. Obama is half-white. Somewhere in this presidency & dog 'n pony show environment we live in, it has been completely forgotten that his mother was white & he was substantially raised by his white maternal grandparents.

Sort of like Malcolm X?

I don't think anyone forgot. I just think this country has a pretty simple definition for what makes someone black, and it is primarily based on what you look like.
 

PropAddict

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pilot
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I just think this country has a pretty simple definition for what makes someone black, and it is primarily based on what you look like.

Ummm. . .help us out here, isn't that how the classification came about in the first place? Isn't that the central feature common to the entire black community?

What other criterion would you propose that is more enlightened?
 

AJB37

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Mr. Obama is half-white. Somewhere in this presidency & dog 'n pony show environment we live in, it has been completely forgotten that his mother was white & he was substantially raised by his white maternal grandparents.

Well, I guess he should only be half offended by racial slurs and such then. I'd bet the President has been treated and perceived as a black male for all his life regardless of the fact that he is half white.
 

eddie

Working Plan B
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What other criterion would you propose that is more enlightened?
I wouldn't.

Well, I guess he should only be half offended by racial slurs and such then. I'd bet the President has been treated and perceived as a black male for all his life regardless of the fact that he is half white.

This was all I meant. Are "mulatto," "half-white," or "quarter-black" terms that fly around the lexicon these day as identifiers? Maybe qualifiers in certain conversations / the census?
 
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