Reply #97: I think you're right. [View All]

[LooseWilly]

I was speculating about the possibilities of an abstract case of an individual who decides to try to self-identify as "white" when said individual was "bi-racial". I was simply stating that, in my opinion, some acknowledgement of the desires of that individual might be in order.

You are absolutely correct that Obama is not that abstract individual. There is no sign he ever was, ever was even similar. He identifies himself as black. He obviously appears black.

He is black.

I never disagreed with that. I merely expressed an even more liberal, perhaps Quixotic, personal judgement that, were he to, for some fantastical reason that only a Soap Opera writer could dream up, to decide to become that abstract individual about whom I was speculating... in that case I personally would be willing to accept that self-identification for him. If he chose it, I am willing to accept it.

Obviously the politics of who the "white community" and the "white power structure", and any other "community" for that matter, try to claim... involves a completely different analysis. I can't find any point of your analysis that I disagree with in any way.

If you thought I was somehow trying to legitimize the efforts of some community to "lay claim" to an individual, in a "racial context"... then I'm sorry to have induced any misunderstanding. As far as I'm concerned, Obama and only Obama has any legitimate say in "how HE identifies himself".