Posted by
FeargalX on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:06:31 PM
Apparently, a young black women and was teaching her child to say some negative things about Obama. So, that is a big deal. O'Reilly wants the FBI to be involved.
This young black women (at least the part I saw) may have said some crazy things (Obama the anti-Christ) but she also makes a point about Obama that is simply true.
She points out that Obama is not really black -- which is technically very true. She pointed out that his mother was white -- she says that his father was "Arab or Muslim" -- that is almost sort of true. Again, Kenya is no more like where black Americans are from than Estonia is like Portugal. There may be some very general similarity (admittedly had Obama lived in America up until 1970 he could have experienced legal discrimination) -- but this is not his heritage.
It is amazing to me that so many people take for granted the idea that blacks (or whites for that matter) cannot make distinctions between different ethnicities. Vietnam is not Japan, Estonia is not Portugal and East Africa is not West Africa.
While some black Americans might be able to trace their ancestry to white slaveholders -- I would suspect that most cannot -- especially to multiple slaveholders circa 1850 (that were not related -- that eventually married and became Obama's maternal ancestry).
Once again, Obama is over 1/3 English. The English do not have a long history of being oppressed.
Saying all of that, his election makes it pretty clear that there is no systematic oppression against blacks in America. Otherwise, a young first term U.S. Senator would have no chance whatsoever.