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dynasaw (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:36 PM Original message |
Obama is Technically Not an African American |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Completely irrelevant and meaningless drivel |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
47. We gotta make sure every human being (one each) is properly tagged and compartmentalized. |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Who fucking cares? He's TOO BLACK He's NOT BLACK ENOUGH! |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. HMMM - no profile info - check! Welcome to my buddy list |
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EmperorHasNoClothes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. His dad was African, his mom was American |
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DesertRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. We Dems? |
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UndertheOcean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. So , whats the point ? for all I care he could be from mars .... |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Original message |
Actually you're right and the only African Americans are Africans who have taken |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yes, "we Dems" like to be accurate. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. What meaningless post. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. lolololololol |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:39 PM Original message |
"We Dems"??? Surely you use the wrong pronoun there. |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. It must really really hurt... |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
11. Maybe his white ancestors were slave-owners, so technically he may have come from |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
37. Actually, his (and my)North Carolina Allred family back in the 1700s WERE |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
55. That's what I thought. The past is the past. We have a new President-Elect. nt |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. Good grief. |
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Muttocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. well, at some point our evolutionary ancestors were in Africa, not that it matters. nt |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:11 PM Original message |
Yep. My whole family emigrated from Africa during the Pleistocene. I mean to go back to |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. oh for fuck's sake. as if we haven't seen this moran shit from other trolls |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. .... |
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mikelgb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. yeah you know us dems... |
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Muttocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. that NYT article you point out doesn't support your comments either - RUMORS. nt |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. Shouldn't this be in "General Discussion: Asshattery" ? |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. Technically Teresa Heinz Kerry is African American too |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
32. Your explanation makes more sense |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. that *scholarship* about Harding is propaganda |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. oops, your slip's showing |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. is this that *resistance* Free Republic was planning? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
23. Depends on which race chose him during the last draft picks. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
24. He's only HALF African-American. He's Irish too |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. And he's been adopted by the Japanese in Obama, Japan |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
25. Swell |
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WiMu (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
26. You want to be technical about it |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
27. Well...to tell a family secret, his grandmother was Dutch. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
28. And Abe Lincoln is said to have had Melungeon ancestry. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. This sounds like multiple threads over at FreeFuckPublic n/t |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
30. Technically we're all of African descent. Just FYI n/t |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #30 |
62. Yes we are. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
31. "Technically" is the wrong word... |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
34. freeper post |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
35. Were you born a complete waste of oxygen, or did you have to take special lessons? |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
36. Y'know, we really need a forum for running a pool... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
38. Rubbish he was born in America and had an African father |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
39. BULLSHIT!! Then Powell isn't AA either because his folks are Jamaican. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #39 |
50. I didn't know that -- then he isn't |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Mighty white of you. |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
40. I always thought it was rude calling a black man black and not African American |
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puerco-bellies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
41. Enjoy your stay.. |
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Max_powers94 (715 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
42. you are Technically Not a DU'er |
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Kind of Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
43. This post is nitpickety, persnickety and petty. How can he be "partially American" |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
44. And you're not technically a troll, you just act like one |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
45. But Dave Matthews is. How freaky is that? |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
46. You lost? |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
48. I actually just said that to someone today |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
49. Technically, he is. Father was Kenyan (Africa). Mother was American. |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
51. Not all African Americans who have descended from Black ancestors who |
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cayuga (405 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
52. Could we just call him a 'halfrican' and be done with it? n/t |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
53. I don't understand teh hostilty about this: Obama isn't African-American, as it's usually meant |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
56. We already had this stupid discussion here months ago. And Yes you are trying to be provocative. nt |
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mirror wall (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
57. Why is there so much animosity to this post? |
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dynasaw (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
58. I am amazed at the venomous response |
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mirror wall (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:08 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Great points at the end there. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:45 PM Response to Reply #59 |
65. Thank you socky! |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
60. He grew up in the US as a black person |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
61. nonsense |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
63. say what? i thought his father was from kenya |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
64. And all this time I thought Clinton was the first black President |
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