Sad America

[Malice_Mizer]

"President Obama is traditionally viewed as an African-American because of his father's heritage in Kenya. However, while researching his Caucasian mother, Stanley Ann Dunham's lineage, Ancestry.com genealogists found her to have African heritage as well, which piqued the researchers' interest and inspired further digging into Obama's African-American roots.

In tracing the family back from Obama's mother, Ancestry.com used DNA analysis to learn that her ancestors, known as white landowners in Colonial Virginia, actually descended from an African man. Existing records suggest that this man, John Punch, had children with a white woman who then passed her free status on to their offspring. Punch's descendants went on to be free, successful land owners in a Virginia entrenched in slavery."

[Malice_Mizer]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

im related to barbara bush .. so what?

So, Obama has conclusive ties to an African-American slave from Virginia, and therefore has roots in the black American experience as it relates to history.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, Obama has conclusive ties to an African-American slave from Virginia, and therefore has roots in the black American experience as it relates to history.

if you look up the definition of "a stretch," as in "That's a stretch! LOL," you will find a reference to the quoted sentence.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, Obama has conclusive ties to an African-American slave from Virginia, and therefore has roots in the black American experience as it relates to history.

he got that experience in hawaii, right?

or was it indonesia.

i get confused about which of those is in the deep south.

[Hasbinbad]

I'm talking about growing up with great-grandma (or your neighbors great-grandma) telling stories about coming up very hard.. and when I was a kid, there were still people alive who had known ex-slaves .. we're not that far from it.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm talking about growing up with great-grandma (or your neighbors great-grandma) telling stories about coming up very hard.. and when I was a kid, there were still people alive who had known ex-slaves .. we're not that far from it.

obama never experienced ^

[Malice_Mizer]

Originally Posted by Samoht [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

he got that experience in hawaii, right?

or was it indonesia.

i get confused about which of those is in the deep south.

So black people who live on the West Coast, North-East, Mid-West, or anywhere else other than the "Deep South" don't have a valid claim to their history and its implications?

Good to know all these white guys get to police the history, experience, meaning, and qualifications for what it means to be black in America.

[Samoht]

yes. black people growing up in hawaii and indonesia have no idea what it's like to grow up black in the deep south.

i can't believe i really had to type that...

[Malice_Mizer]

Do you want me to go through a list of some of the most explosive race riots in this country's history?

Surprisingly, many of the worst didn't happen in the deep south! See, this thing happened in the early-mid 20th century called the "Great Migration," where huge numbers of African Americans fled the South and populated other regions of the US.

One of the worst cities for race relations and race riots in this country's history is the city of Chicago, bud. You're working off of stereotypes that the South was the epitome of racism and everywhere else in America was Heaven by comparison.

[Samoht]

no i'm working off reality where obama lived in hawaii and indonesia and has no idea what it's like to be hated by his white overlords or his black kindred for being a cross breed.

obama has no idea what it's like to be a black child in america. he never was one.