What If Barack Obama Were White?
Posted on November 3, 2008 3:25 PM
After the jump is a insightful, essay/commentary about how race impacts our society and how Barack Obama is challenging racial stereotypes. Sent to me via Seth Mode, but I think he prolly got it from somebody else.
Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....think about it.
Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit?
Ponder the following:
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world.
Hey for christs sake, HE'S AS WHITE AS HE IS BLACK!! Stop forgetting that!!! So change your article title to "What If Barack LOOKED White."
Barack is more white and Arab than he is black. He is only 7% black. previously old census law stated that you have to be an 8th of a race to claim it. Now census defines race based on your views. So I as a black male can say I'm russian, and the census will allow me to do it. My question is if a white man that was 7% black was walking around saying he is black, would we accept it the same? Probably not, but because Barack has a tan skin color, we'll believe what Barack says. The truth is we are being fooled by barack, and he's using our accomplishments as a race against us to win an election. None of his ancestors been hung in this country, so I don't identify with this man who has an Arabic name.
centinel shut yo lame ass up.u hoe ass uncle tom ass nigga.hang ya self u lil bitch...this aint about race its who best suited for the job u corny ass nigga.
accomplishments as a race?
eat a dick
First off jay I'm not an internet thug like you. See me nigga! So since you mentioned it, then why is Obama qualified for the job? You can't answer that, so don't get mad because I shot down the only reason you were voting for him in the first place. Ha Ha. Like I said lets see your intelligence which i'm positive is no where near mines. So why is a senator with only 2 years experience the best candidate? Give me something significant he has done since his time as a senator, or even a community activist. What has he done for you? Nothing. A typical democrat expecting someone to do something for them. I'm self made. I don't need a politician, or anyone to do anything for me, Unlike your dumb ass who probably burned your bridges in life, and your scapegoat is Bush. Your the real loser, and stupid as hell if you really believe anything that barack says.
First of all CENTINEL it's obvious you're a misled republican spouting off about crap thats been repeated so much by the republican party that you actually believe it. So what if he has an Arabic name (its actually African) and what makes you think he's only 7 percent black? His father is Kenyan and is as black as they come. So whereas did you pull that 7 percent number out of? Your ass I believe? If John McCain has showed the American people anything, its that experience does not equate to a good presidency or even a good campaign. It has continued to be erratic throughout the entire year we've witnessed it. First he complained Obama was a "celebrity", then he suspends his campaign for 2 days because of the economy even though he initially claimed the "fundamentals were strong", then he brings up William Ayers to distract us from his lack of knowledge pertaining to the economy, then he wants to call Obama a socialist, then after all else fails he gets Palin to pull another person out of her ass named Rashid Khalidi who John McCain has ties to himself...just because you have "experience" (whatever that means, nobody is really ready to be president when they haven't even worked in the White Houes) does not mean you're going to be a better president than the guy with intelligence, humility, rationality and time spent helping out his community.
If McCain were a black man and Obama were a white man...I'm sure most black people would vote for McCain. Black People - Educate yourselves. Just because someone is black doesn't make them fit to run the country. And, he is only 7% african america. HE IS NOT BLACK!! Just because he appears to have a dark pigment doesn't make him african american. This is basically Reverse Racism. Don't vote for the white guy because there is a black guy running. Black people are ignorant and don't follow the issues...The follow the pigment. Don't bitch about racism if you're gonna vote for Barack based on his skin color and not the issues.
CENTINEL & jimmycrackcorn you two actually know the issues here and so spot on about the Ancestry of Obama, his past doesn't relate to Black America at all, "Black people are ignorant and don't follow the issues...The follow the pigment"
It's very sad what the USA has come to where people decide the president based on skin color and not the issues at hand. Jay is a perfect example of the stereotypical uneducated, ignorant person that made up 90% of Obama's vote.
I am very disappointed about this age that will surely sink America even lower and this socialism crap Obama is trying to pull makes it all the worse... In a few years anyone with a brain will be bitching to get Obama out anyways, hes not going to deliver.
I don't give a sh*t about skin color but why couldn't the first black president be a decent republican and not a socialist democrat?
Hell, any black Republican should have ran against Obama, then we would have been able to have a real election about the issues since both candidates would be black!!