Tingles: Obama Ran As A “White” Candidiate In 2008…
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2012/06/25 14:19:35
If there’s one person who can always be trusted to delicately handle the subject of President Obama‘s race, it’s Chris Matthews. And on his show today, he proved how nuanced and restrained he can be on this topic by saying that in 2008, Obama was positioning himself as more of a white candidate with references to his immigrant roots, and how that meant he was walking back being “black” in that race.
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The subject of the segment was how Obama’s racial identity has shaped his personal and political life. The Washington Post‘s David Maraniss explained that since Obama is only half-white and half-black, white America just really wants to know why he identifies as black. Matthews helpfully observed that throughout American history, “if you’re one drop black, you’ll become black.” “He did another sort of a walk-back, because he ran not just an African-American, but as a sort of a guy, the son of immigrants. Very much like our backgrounds, you know, white people’s backgrounds.”
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- Diane Spraggs Yates 2012/06/25 19:22:49 (edited)
+1Obama 's paternal great-great-grandfather was 100% Arabic. The children from that union married only other Arabs until Obama's father, who lived in Kenya and was officially referred to in Kenyan public records as an 'Arab African' and was only 1/8 African. He married a 100% American Caucasian and produced a son, Barack who, technically is, 50% White, 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African. Hence, he is more White than he is African-American. He is black, for sure, but only in the pigmentation of his skin. He is just as much white as he is black, but politically speaking it has been more expedient and rewarding for him to claim African-American lineage. This true if Frank Marshal Davis in fact is NOT his real father ?????reply
