tekisui
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Sat Nov-08-08 08:55 PM
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Have Any Democracies Out Side of Africa Ever Elected a Black Head of State? |
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Has a black man or woman ever been elected head of state from Europe or other Western Democracies? What about Asia and South America?
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Sat Nov-08-08 08:56 PM
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1. I'd imagine almost every nation in the Caribbean has |
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:05 PM
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Has any democracy in Africa elected a non-black as their head of state? What exactly are you saying?
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:13 PM
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3. I am asking if Obama is the first black head of state outside of Africa? |
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Edited on Sat Nov-08-08 09:24 PM by tekisui
It is to be expected that Africa has elected black heads of state.
ETA, I see your point. It would be as significant for a white to be elected in an African country, other than SOuth Africa.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:17 PM
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4. Why would Asia? I'm more concerned if Australia ever had an Aboriginal |
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holding a political office. Anyone of them.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:21 PM
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5. not sure if democracy...but |
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:33 PM
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11. Egypt is part of Africa n/t |
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:25 PM
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6. Yes. Hugo Chavez is as black as Obama. Aristide in Haiti |
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Edited on Sat Nov-08-08 09:25 PM by endofdays
Hugo Chavez is half black, that is, if I don't misremember. Also I'm pretty sure most Jamaican presidents, if not all, have been black. Leonel Fernandez from the Dominican Republic seems mixed too. He might not look 100% black, but he does not look white either.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:28 PM
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7. Do you mean Africa the country or Africa the continent? |
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Sorry...couldn't resist.:P
I think Obama's the first. This is one case where USA really IS #1.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:30 PM
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9. They have a continent now!? |
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Sat Nov-08-08 10:09 PM
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:29 PM
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8. No first-world democracies have elected an ethnic minority as head of state before. |
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:31 PM
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10. That was what I was trying to ask. |
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That's for being so concise and clear.:hi:
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:36 PM
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12. Not in any country where they are a small minority like here. |
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I'd have to be absolutely sure, but among longstanding democracies this is certainly a first.
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tekisui
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:39 PM
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13. That is what I thought. |
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:52 PM
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19. Blacks are a small minority in Venezuela |
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10%, and Chavez won there being half black. But then it gets complicated, because he's said to have one indian parent, but although "amerindian" is 2% of Venezuelan population, 67% of everyone is "mestizo" which means "mixed".
Then again, most people are mixed with white and indigenous there.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:44 PM
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14. Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada |
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Not quite the same, but my wife likes to remind me of her whenever I start getting too enthusiastic about Obama.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:48 PM
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16. She was appointed, not elected, and doesn't have any real powers. |
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Still, um...good job, Canada?
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:48 PM
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17. She wasn't elected, though. She was appointed. |
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And, not quite a head of state. But, very good, regardless.
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Sat Nov-08-08 10:50 PM
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My Canadian better half reminds me of her whenever I get too prideful. So I remind her she still is beholden to a Queen. And then we both agree that 2008 is a great year for the world.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:47 PM
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15. The only person who comes close (non democracy) in the West |
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(N hemisphere of course) is Septimus Severus of the Roman Empire.
He was half N African, meaning half Berber.
No one else I can think of.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:50 PM
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18. At least one VP was part Native American |
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Edited on Sat Nov-08-08 09:58 PM by Bad Thoughts
I'm not sure which one it ways, possibly Hoover's VP. I know this is not quite what you were thinking of, but the VP does belong to the same ticket.
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Sat Nov-08-08 09:59 PM
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20. Leon Blum, PM, France, Jew. eom. |
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Sat Nov-08-08 10:00 PM
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Women to boot! (Sometimes the west lags a little and the US lags a lot.)
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Sat Nov-08-08 10:06 PM
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22. How about South America? |
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Chavez has mixed ancestry.
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Sat Nov-08-08 10:13 PM
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that's the only one I can think of.
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:20 PM
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26. That's a majority black country though. |
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:00 PM
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27. Well, the OP needs to change his headline then |
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Because it specifies Africa.
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