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Just wondering. Why does mainstream press choose to
Posted: Sep 15, 2012
I mean, the man is half white, half black - so to regard him as being black is nothing BUT a choice, right? Pick one from column A or one from column B - it's your CHOICE. It is NOT factual to call Obama black, or to call him white for that matter.
But it does seem passing strange that no one in the press regards Obama as white. Just by the laws of probability, you would expect that some would call him white and some would call him black. I mean, if I showed 10 people a black-and-white checkerboard and asked them what color it was (and they HAD to choose one), I'd expect some blacks and some whites, right? But every one of them would also say - "It's really both, but since I had to pick just one..."
(Well, yes, if you had just landed on Planet Earth with nothing but simple logic to guide you, you'd expect some to call him black and some to call him white. Once you'd learned something about the pressbots, though, the mystery would vanish.)
Back to the checkerboard, it would be interesting to see if there were some reason for which color those 10 people chose, wouldn't it? I think so. But what would NOT be in question is that it WAS their CHOICE...and nothing more.
And if it's true, then, that whatever race the press calls Obama is merely by their personal choice, and nothing more than that, how devious is it then for them to accuse anyone who opposes him of being motivated by "racism" when the man is as much white as he is black?? It's in the eye of the beholder and is based on how THEY view Obama. There's simply no logical alternative.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. More to the point, I don't get what difference it makes what anyone calls him, black or white. He's failed all of us - and in fact, blacks even more so than the whites. And with that, I'll leave you to guess whether I'm white, black or perhaps "none of the above".
If you say it doesn't matter what I am, you're beginning to get it. It doesn't matter what I am, what you are, or what Obama is when it comes to race. What matters is that we drill down past that, and learn to see the underlying realities - whether we like them or not.
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I think it matters - boostraps
[ In Reply To ..]And why all the buildup to say he's failing us?
Who is "them" in your last line?
I've only noticed the press calling him black historically: The first black president.
Or when he is disrespected as no other white president has, and they speculate it is because he is black.
I don't know about Fox or how they refer to him... just a discalimer.
I was raised in a very racist environment, so I'm getting your message. When I rasied my kids, my desccriptors of people did not include color. Maybe that's where we need to start.
I applaud the president for - Trigger Happy
[ In Reply To ..]being the first African American president. He will obviously be remembered for that long after we are all dead and gone.
However, I do get tired of hearing about him being black. To me, he is my president and his skin color is not important to me. I know it is important to some and I find that sad. You have some on the right who refuse to vote for him because he is black...and you have those on the left who will vote for him because he is black.
It is a shame that they cannot look at the issues without regarding his skin color. I thought most of us had gotten past that a long time ago...but I gues I was wrong.
The ones who can't get past it - bootstraps
[ In Reply To ..]are the reason his color is mentioned, at least on the sources I read and listen to.
and one more thing - boostraps
[ In Reply To ..]It's interesting that the threads on this board that refer to race in initial posts are Republican or Conservative posters.
very true - nm
[ In Reply To ..]
It probably has something to do with the fact - that in the United States
[ In Reply To ..]the term "black" has historically referred to people having any African ancestry. In the South during slavery they had the "one-drop rule" where a person with any African blood was considered black. This had to do with increasing the number of slaves and keeping the white race "pure."
Oh, please. Do you honestly believe the press is - thinking about any of THAT?
[ In Reply To ..]The mind boggles.
No, I don't think the press consciously thinks - of that, but I think that is
[ In Reply To ..]why we call mixed race people of African descent in this country "black." It is part of our culture. In fact, I have noticed that people who are 100% African in this country are usually called "Ethiopian" or "Ugandan" or whatever specific country they are from instead of "black." To me, it is no stretch for the press to call Obama "black" because most people we call "black" in this country are mixed race.
Sociologists and everyone hashed this out long ago. Maybe a - question for you is why it matters to you. NM
[ In Reply To ..]x
The late embrace - Vintagefine
[ In Reply To ..]Nobody in the history of this country has ever been called white if they had so much as one drop of black blood, unless it wasn't noticeable and they could pass for white. That one-drop rule was written into our laws in the early 1900s. Despite it being law, though, most people base it on appearance: If you look black, you're considered "black"; if you look white, you're considered "white". If you look mixed, people may or may not know what you're mixed with, but they still don't consider you to be white, and most often they consider you to be black. What is funny to me is that it took a mixed man with brown skin to make it all the way to the white house before white people were finally ready to embrace someone with brown skin as one of their own. My own white family never considered me as white and would not even allow my white mother to bring me or my siblings around them because our skin was too dark… and we are all lighter than Obama. I know what it feels like to be mixed in America and I know what it feels like to be black in America. I still don’t know what it feels like to be white in America.
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