Barack Obama on why he's African American

View interview here: http://bit.ly/d5SIYQ

"If the world saw me as African American, then that was something I needn't run away from, that's something that I could go ahead and embrace. I'm less interested in how we label ourselves, I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African American, I can be multiracial, I can be, you name it. What matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for other people."

Obama also went on to say how Blacks as a race are "mixed up":

"We are sort of a mongrel people. I mean, we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it."

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[WhereYaBoss]

@FuckObama2010 Obama has never ran away from his white side. Obviously, you have never read any of his books. Obviously, you never saw any of his commercials where he clearly shows his WHITE mother holding him as a child and talked openly about his white grandparents. I have never once seen Obama run away from his mixed heritage. Not ever. So, uhm, fuck you. And if after all of that he still wants to call himself African-American to represent his African heritage, so be it!!

[FuckObama2010]

Most racial mixing went on AFTER slavery. Consensual relationships.

[FuckObama2010]

HE NEEDN'T RUN AWAY FROM HIS WHITE SIDE EITHER- you know, the side that (stereotypically) did all the work involved in child-rearing. Can you apply that same logic to whites? DO you get how whites can feel DISRESPECTED AND DISOWNED AS WELL? Do you get it?

Soledad looks mixed. Latin. She doesn't look black.

YOUR POINT ON BLACKS BEING MIXED: yes, many are, but the difference is he had A WHITE MOTHER/WHITE GRANDPARENTS RAISED HIM. GET IT? THAT'S WHY IT'S DISRESPECTFUL. Most racial mixing occured

[FuckObama2010]

No, actually whites mention being part native-american all the time (I'm half jewish) ONLY TO RECEIVE EYEROLLS AND ATTITUDES FROM BLACK WOMEN... like, "you're just a "rich white person" who owes me for slavery"", even though 90% of us aren't descended from that (post-civil war immigrant background).

[FuckObama2010]

He's a half white , half black, racist ingrate who treated his white family with lots of disrespect, by attending an afro-centric church.