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2008-11-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2008-11-30 09:30|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 For those not around in the old days when in South Africa a white apartheid political system was in place, but the had a blood determination separating whites from blacks. The apartheid bureaucracy devised complex (and often arbitrary) criteria at the time that the Population Registration Act was implemented to determine who was 'Colored'. Minor officials would administer tests to determine if someone should be categorized either 'Colored' or Black, or if another person should be categorized either 'Colored' or White. Different members of the same family found themselves in different race groups.
Of course this was roundly denounced by the western liberal and leftist communities who sought and got a embargo established against the racist South African government.

Today, however, the same leftest and liberals [which is now redundant] use the same type of 'measure' to determine whether a person is white or black. Leftist Apartheid is now in play.

...on the other hand,
Bill Clinton claimed to be the first black president of the 20th Century, which is working out as it appears Obama is becoming the Bill Clinton president of the 21st Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-30 09:52|| 2008-11-30 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 "With so much history in our veins, Hispanics tend to think differently about race. "

Hmm, does this include the wonderful folks at "La Raza" (The Race)?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-30 10:37|| 2008-11-30 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 He's black based on our own country's history. Our South used the 'one-drop' rule for a long time. Barack Obama is as black as Tiger Woods.

The author of this piece is swimming uphill. It's a fine, academic argument, one that can be made in the nicer parlors and dinner tables, but our country traditionally hasn't labeled multi-racial people as such.

Posted by Steve White 2008-11-30 11:18|| 2008-11-30 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4

Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black.

We call him that -- he calls himself that -- because we use dated language and logic

No - you called him that - and he called himself that - because it played well as a campaign weapon.

Posted by Pappy 2008-11-30 11:20|| 2008-11-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Never known of any actually black Americans. Compare "African-Americans" side-to-side with actual Africans and they all all are merely shades of brown in comparison. See Colin Powell together with Bush -- they're about the same hue. And yet he's supposedly "black".

But I'm not sure what this "There exist hardly any actual black people in America" supposedly leads to. Obama is just as black as Jesse Jackson or Rice and much more black than Powell.

But it also played well to call Condi Rice or Powell "black", I guess.

Posted by S. 2008-11-30 11:48|| 2008-11-30 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Who cares. He's an ultra-leftist and he's about to screw up the country a whole lot more.

Posted by DMFD 2008-11-30 13:32|| 2008-11-30 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I predicted that after the inauguration we'd start hearing whispering campaigns deniably originating from the like of Jesse Jackson et al, claiming that Obama isn't "black enough" to "get" the America Black Experience. (Accept no substitutes for "authentic black leadership!") I wasn't expecting anything this early.

Posted by James">James 2008-11-30 15:44|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-11-30 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/obamaa.jpg

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-30 16:07|| 2008-11-30 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ION FREEREPUBLIC > RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS: CRISIS [US-Global Financial/Banking] WILL HELP US REGAIN POWER.

Unless I've missed something, the RELABELING/REDEFINITION OF COMMUNISM AS "LIMITED FASCISM/LIMITED LEFIST-SOCIALISM" and related has nothing to do it.

* INTERESTING > last nite's HISTORY CHANNEL program on "SPUTNIK" >= late 1950's Bigwig Amer Politician describes COMMUNISTS AS "RED FASCISTS" [Nazis]. OTHER > THE "SPUTNIK SCARE" IN EISENHOWER-ERA AMERICA INDUCED HUBERT HUMPHREY TO PROCLAIM THAT ITS MORE IMPORTANT POST-SPUTNIK FOR AMERICA TO HAVE AN EFFECTIVE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE WORLD VEE THE SOVIETS/USSR, as "SPUTNIK LAUNCH INFERRED TO MANY US PERTS THAT THE SOVIETS HAD DEV LR ICBMS, THAN FOR AMER TO HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET???

Thus was born the Cold War US-USSR MISSLE RACE, DR. STRANGELOVE, + US GOVT. DEFICIT SPENDING/BUDGETING [Curr US-Global Crisis]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-30 18:11|| 2008-11-30 18:11|| Front Page Top

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