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Did you know Obama is black?
What?!? I voted for a black man?!? 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
What?!? A black man was running and I voted to put yet another WHITE man in office?!? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I knew he had a black name, but are you saying he's actually African American? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I knew he was black the first time I saw him. 67%  67%  [ 8 ]
I knew he was black the second time I saw him. 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
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23 Jan 2009, 6:18 pm

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Obama is biracial with a black father and a white mother. If you want to call him any "color" you can call him "caramel" or "olive" I guess. I think it's so funny that people keep referring to Obama being "black". He's just as white as he is black!


That's not really true. He lived in the USA in the black community and was treated as a black man in society. For all practical purposes, he's black. There isn't a black person in America that doesn't have some mixture of African and European genes, due to widespread rapes of slave women.


True. My ex is biracial (half white half black) yet everyone (before they meet her parents) assume she is black because she is somewhat dark. There are also many white people who are more tan with dark features. That's because most white people don't have "pure" European heritage. But you are being very technical even though you are right.


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24 Jan 2009, 4:31 am

I dont give a s**t what colour Obama is all I know is he is just a continuation of the same ruling class as the rest of them.


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24 Jan 2009, 12:29 pm

DentArthurDent wrote:
I dont give a sh** what colour Obama is all I know is he is just a continuation of the same ruling class as the rest of them.


Oh, if only you could lead, right? Then everything would be better.

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24 Jan 2009, 12:49 pm

Ragtime wrote:
DentArthurDent wrote:
I dont give a sh** what colour Obama is all I know is he is just a continuation of the same ruling class as the rest of them.


Oh, if only you could lead, right? Then everything would be better.

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Or possible the fellow to whom you responded is an anarchist.

I consider government a necessary evil, which means that it is an evil. We can only hope that it is a minimal evil. I don't think I could lead better than any other average American, which is why I do not seek the job.

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24 Jan 2009, 2:40 pm

didn't even know who he was till the other day,one of the staff mentioned him just becoming president on tv and him being the 'first black president'.
am couldnt care less,and wouldn't have noticed if was stuck watching him all day on tv.
its not because he is in America,don't know who the equivilent here is either.


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24 Jan 2009, 6:23 pm

Ragtime wrote:
DentArthurDent wrote:
I dont give a sh** what colour Obama is all I know is he is just a continuation of the same ruling class as the rest of them.


Oh, if only you could lead, right? Then everything would be better.

:roll:


Hell no, the last thing the world needs is a dictator with severe limitations in facial recognition, problems multitasking and mild OCD. 8O

Even with the possible short commings I believe that Marxism has a better chance of working than Capitalism so therefore I do not want any kind of established ruling class.


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