Barack Obama needs the support of whites if he is to serve a second term, yet this need is outflanked by his need to perceive himself, and to be perceived by others, as “authentically black,” and so he is hypersensitive to giving the impression that he needs whites.
Anyone who has read Barack Obama’s autobiographies knows that our 44th president has had a lifelong obsession with discovering (or creating?) a racial identity for himself. He is very candid about this in his Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, his first — and more honest — memoir; indeed, Dreams is nothing more than a recounting of this odyssey, an epic journey that begins within the midst of the contradictions and ambiguities of the overwhelmingly white world in which Obama was raised and that culminates in the clarity and coherence of black Africa.
Obama, that is, is black by choice, and like any convert, he is animated by zealotry to establish himself as a “True Believer.” If he labors under any self-delusions, they are no less the products of his choice than his “blackness” itself, for it is from Obama’s painful self-awareness that his guilt over his unfamiliarity with “the black experience” in America is begotten: the conspicuous absence in his blood line of American slaves; a black father who abandoned him when he was but a small child; the white grandparents who raised him; his upbringing, not in the “ghettos” or “hoods” of America’s “inner cities,” but the plush islands of Hawaii; the private educational institutions that he attended all throughout his life, from elementary school to law school; and the preponderance of friendships with mostly white kids growing up are among the circumstances that conspire to incessantly provoke Obama to prove his “authenticity” to black America. This singular focus on convincing himself and others of his authentic blackness explains Obama’s aching need to recast the events of his own life, both its past and present stages, in the light of an imaginary “racism” that allegedly informs them; yet it also accounts for his conduct from before and after he was elected president.
Obama’s decisions to: become a “community organizer” in the “ghettos” of Chicago; join the church of Jeremiah Wright — an ally of Louis Farrakhan who Obama claims to have regarded as a “spiritual mentor” — and remain a member in good standing for over twenty years; attend Farrakhan’s “Million Man March”; work closely with ACORN, a corrupt organization responsible for extorting from banks loans for aspiring “low-income” (read: black) property owners; and, in spite of conceding his ignorance of the facts of the situation, express sympathy for his black friend, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., while castigating the white police officers with whom Gates had an encounter, are just some of the deeds that reflect Obama’s burning desire to achieve security in his “blackness.”
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Black History, like Native American History, have one thing in common: they wouldn't have any history without the white man. This statement on Black History and culture was made by Dr. David Manning and rings true for anyone who like facts. Campfire stories are fine for the Scouts and Family Outings, but the fabrication of truth does provide confidence in a people. All the races of the world have benefited greatly by association with white people, and would still live under horrible conditions without us. Especially strange since all their Gods were White, and modern white men were mistaken for being their benefactors. Let Obam dwell in his false pride, and I will revel in my White Pride. I did not harm his people, and I don't know of white people who have. He is a ridiculous ghetto dweller, who just can't face the reality of this world.
Ah, Manning–the wackiest "pastor" in America–returns to the site.
James as usual you are wrong!!!!
Rev. wright is the wackiest pastor in America!
Please do not equate my Native American history to the white man. Do not especially state we have anything in common with the black. My heritage is quite rich without the interference of any other race. We do not rely on any other race for our identity. The "heritage" we can relate to the white man is the fact they attempted genocide upon us. If driving us out of our land is heritage, this is another example. We were also subjected to slavery and many other atrocities. We have before and after the white man, held our heritage sacred. We still live by our original ways. I am not condemning the white man. They have much to be proud of also. Please tho, don't attempt to state my race would have no history without them.
Barry is a man posessed with originality and he does so with a vengeance, he does this because of who he is and how he was raised, a small lonely child shuffled about in the family who all happened to be practicing communist, some white and other mixed races. Barry is still boohooing his past, his fathers past and all the colonialism that has suppressed the great things that might have come from their very existence. So now Barry is this nations highest paid undocumented worker and is a proud law breaking radical with a chip on his shoulder with a big paycheck coming from G. Soros for acting like the shill he has become…..he is proud to be a lib and a loser.
Thomas you are very correct. I am very glad that he considers himself to be black. He not only is unqualified to be an American but also not fit to be called an American.
We should have picked our own cotton.
Craig that is exactly telling my southern friends in SC if they picked their own cotton we we wouldn't be in this mess and the worst thing is they bring in the illegals because now farmers are to lazy to pick their own crops.
Yep, those lazy farmers are the problem, all right. And the lazy factory owners. And the lazy construction companies. And the lazy hotel and restaurant owners. And especially the lazy thinkers.
Lazy thinker fits you to a t. Typical lib, small brain and no understanding how use it. STFU, idiot. Scumbag liberal scum like you is the problem. All Americas problems can be tied to liberals and their failed policies.
And there's a fine example of of the deep thinking that conservatives are known for.
You are too stupid to understand "deep thinking", boy. No point trying deep thought around a mental midget like you.
No, you certainly wouldn't want to publicly try something that you've apparently never practiced. But thanks for providing another excellent example of my previous point.
You are right, when I look at idiot liberals posts, like yours, I NEVER participate in trying to do something, like present "deep thinking, because a mental midget like you and other liberals would never understand.
And yet you keep answering, without the thinking. Interesting approach.
Wrong! Not thought thru very well!
James according to your post white people only have illegals & blacks working for their businesses. As usual your post had little to support it & was totally a fabrication of spin.
Craig is right!
With these kind of post you do appear to be a mental midget!
I dont feel he considers himself to be black…. if he does, why didnt he put mostly black men in his Cabinet instead of filling all spots except for the DOJ…. with white men. Obama goes to bat for the blacks, but he plays golf with whites, he is surrounded constantly with whites, except when it comes to playing basketball. Remember the black basketball friend of his in California… can’t think of his name but he was either but he had some high position in San Francisco.. or some place… Obama fired the Inspector General of the US ONLY cause he was investigating this black friend of his who had some something illegal. He only goes to bat for a white person if they’re to benefit him. You didnt see him offer Bill Clinton secret service protection for LIFE after all Bill and Hillary have done for him.. yet he put Bush on that pad who he literally hates and is constantly blaming him for all the mess he has created.
I am sick of hearing about the black thing , the race thing , (etc.) .I have never done anything in my life based on race . However I grew up hating communism , marxism , socialism .and fascism , and in the last nine years Islamism . Our president elect has elements of all these isms in his policies , legislation , executive orders , (etc.) So race ,as usual , is the very least of my worries . I am hearing so much about the great legislation he has gotten passed . It may be great to ant-Americans but sixty to eighty percent of Americans it was and is not wanted . So these people that think it is great are in the minority of Americans and since we are a republic instead of a democracy , (MAJORITY RULES ).
Affirmative action works….just look at the moron-in-charge.
I really do not care what race Obama considers himself to be !
Albino is much closer than black considering that he has both white & black blood in him.
People of European descent and people of African descent both suffer from albinism, so race and color in this context are unrelated.
James! Mental retard! Mentally lacking person! Dummy! Stupid!
I was being facetious!
You knew that though!
You just really can not help yourself when it come to being a jerk!
What a waste you are!
And yet you can't help responding to everything I write, whether you understand it or not, and whether or not it's directed at you. Funny how I now control so much of your life.
James fact is i make your life very difficult on this site! Simply put i make you look foolish!
Which you are! Exposing you as the fake you really are! Exposing your lies & spin as well
for the jerk & bigot which you are!
Just accept the fact James that you are one stupid white boy!
Black most definitely Obama is!
If you look like one? Act like one? Talk like one? Then most likely you are one!
When this undocumented worker finally figures out that he is nothing more than an orieo cookie the sooner we can get our country back
I'm curious why a man who is only 1/8 black would chose to relate to this race? Is it because of his skin color? If that is the case, he could claim his Arab ancestry which he is close to equal with black. I'm still at a loss how his book is called an autobiography when Bill Ayers wrote it for him.
This "Race" thing is getting sickening! I wasn't a McCain fan but I respected the fact that he did not use the Race Card, it was Obama and his people who started throwing it out there and still are. Also, people like Jackson and Sharpton are paid Racists, who would have nothing to do if they couldn't keep it going. Blacks are the only Racists I know, not all, but enough. And Obama is one of the biggest Racists I have seen, he and Holder. America has never been so divided, which is an indication that this is a horrible administration, because they instigate it. We have to rid ourselves of the UnAmerican Obama in 2012 and end this madness!
Yes he is BLACK, he is a JERK, he cares nothing about America, HE IS A RACIST, he is UNQUALFIED to run this country or any other COUNTRY, he is SNEAKY, he is a LIAR to make himself look good, He is a CRIMINAL, and he has gotten away with more criminal activities thaN any other politiciasn because we have a bunch of greedy wimps in Congress. IMPEACH or PROSECUTE the SOB. Our Country will not be fixed until he is out of office. But then he probably has a trillion fraudulent votes lined up. That's how he became president. We did not elect him. He got there through voters fraud!
[[[ Obama, that is, is black by choice, and like any convert, he is animated by zealotry to establish himself as a “True Believer.” ]]]
Obama is NOT black by choice…. He has NO CHOICE. He knows he can’t be called white, so is FORCED to be black. He would give his eye teeth to be white… Why do you think he pals around with WHITE people for… but shacks around with black men? Like his Body Man… Reggie Love !!!!