More On Barack Obama’s Post Race Race
BARACK Obama Watch: NO more race! And NO more race!! James Hannaham notes:
Obama’s acceptance of his Caucasian genes is another quality that sets him closer to the centre than to Malcolm X. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: Obama’s biracial. He’s an African-American, certainly — in strictly genetic terms, he’s more literally African-American than other American black folks, whose veins are awash in various percentages of African, Native American and European blood.
He looks like a skinny white guy with a tan.
No more race!!! But how to achieve it? Lester Holloway considers matters:
For the sake of democracy we cannot afford to lose a generation of young Obamas.
In the space of a few paragraphs, Holloway has gone from asking and answering, “I fear the answer to the question about whether we will see a British Obama will be ‘No'”, to spotting an entire generation of Barack Obamas, and not just in name only.
But it;s the post-race age. so let’s just get on with things. Colour is no barrier to success. Obama has proved that, right?
All-black lists are not patronising, they are enabling, and the concept has been proven to deliver high-quality MPs if reactionary forces are faced down, as Labour did with all-women shortlists.
That’s right. We move into the post-race age by making race a central plank of democracy.
Jesus wept. And he was a black Jew, dontchaknow…
Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Politicians Comments (4) | TrackBack | Permalink
