Barack Obama Is Whigger, Trigger, Whiten Black Man
ON the BBC: “Is Obama black?”
Yes. He is black. So let’s move on with the post-racial politics…
Kimberly McClain DaCosta Harvard University wonders:
One well-known African American writer, Debra Dickerson, famously objected that Obama is not of the people properly defined as “black” on the grounds that because he is not descended from slaves.
Ergo, he is not black - at all.
Debra… No, never heard of her. Obama is black. Idi Amin was not black. So, let’s move on…
The bulk of the people protesting against references to Obama as a black man, however, grant that he is “part” black (by way of his father), but assert that because he also has a white mother it is not “accurate” to call him black.
He is “in fact” mixed-race, they say.
He’s no nigger. He’s no white trash. Obama is a whigger, a trigger, a trasher, a washer, a whiten… He’s black…
We (I have an African American father and an Irish American mother) were raised on the front lines of racial change, where the new rules about interracial intimacy often clashed with the old - both in public and in our own families.
He’s a Pacific American, Irish American, Afro American, Euro American, Asiatic Amerian, Oceanic American, fag-smokin’, hard tokin’, vote pimpin’, fist bumpin’, hope bringin’, white black yellowy tanned record breaker!
For us, being black and mixed-race are not mutually exclusive. We have learned to live with the contradictions. Perhaps it’s time for everyone else to learn to live with them too.
Spoken like a true whatever…
Spotter: Michael K.
Barack Obama: It’s All About Race
Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Politicians Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Diana: One point only to add.
There is is little use in wishing to share and live in a multi-racial society.
The only structure worth supporting is non-racial.
Prejudice is not and can not be quantifiable - any is an overdose.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
No he is not black - he is mixed race (like me) and I do think it’s an important distinction. Why? Because the significant thing about being bi-racial is that you are NEITHER and BOTH. He is as much “white” as he is “black” but because he has brown skin, it is somehow considered OK to just call him “black”. Even though his white family had far more to do with his upbringing than his black family. I’m sorry but I find this stupid. Why can’t we just call him “white”? That would be just as accurate/inaccurate. Oh yeah, it’s the brown skin again. But wait, isn’t the post-segregationist age supposed to be one in which the colour of a person’s skin doesn’t matter? So then why is his appearance used as a justification for erroneously identifying him as black? Because he looks black, he IS black? I don’t find that very intelligent and in fact I find it to be another form of racism! The future of the planet, if there is one, is with the in-between people, the people who don’t identify with just one racial background. We cannot be racist because we don’t have a race. My mother is so multi-racial you can’t tell what she is at all - she’s constantly being mistaken for a Brazilian Indian, but actually she’s from Jamaica but she doesn’t look “black” and so people are endlessly confused by this. (Despite the fact that Jamaica is one of the most multi-racial places in the world with mixtures of Chinese, Indian, African, Arawak, English, Dutch etc. etc. etc.) I have lighter skin and look white - well mostly, sort of, although people also seem to find my looks confusing and I am forever being asked where I’m from, what race am I and so on. People ask me if I’m Jewish, if I’m Hispanic, if I’m Italian, if I’m this or that. Then when I say “well my Dad’s Irish-American and my Mum’s from Jamaica” they embarrass themselves further by studying my face, which has no African features, and saying “oh, so she’s White Jamaican..?” to which I have to say no, because she’s not! To further complicate matters I was born in the UK, spent my teens, 20s and part of 30s in the USA and now live in the UK again. I have a weird mixed up accent and am constantly having to “explain myself” to people. It’s so boring! I’m a human being living on a planet, a citizen of Earth. Surely that should be enough for me to relate to just about every other human being citizen of Earth? Why oh why do people have to be so narrow minded, divisive and dualistic?
THE MAN IS MIXED-RACE YOU TWATS!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
what’s the benefit of pure race anyway? it didn’t get Hitler very far in the end…
November 18th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
He said himself that he is a mutt.