Now Playing: Barack Ain't Black
Topic: Political

Barack Obama may be a fine presidential candidate, but he ain’t black.  He may have a great education and wonderful new ideas, but he ain’t black.  I, for one, am darned tired of hearing him referred to as black.

 

In the first place his mother, Ann Dunham, was white.  Barack describes her as white as milk.  True, his father was from Kenya and his race would be described in the United States as black (though that is not a race it is a color).  The most that could be said about Barack is that he is half white and half black.  Is there a term for that?  Is it just not PC?  I’d be satisfied with multi-racial.

 

If you believe that Barack is black then you must believe that black genes are predominating.  A 50/50 mixture equals black.  If that is so what about a 40/60 with the 40 being black?  Or 30/70; 20/80; 10/90; does at least ten percent black genetic material make you black?

 

But even if you don’t want to get into the genetic thing; how about this?  His father left when he was two years old.  In reality he never knew his father and only learned about him from pictures and family stories.  From age six to ten he was raised by his white mother and an Indonesian step-father.

 

At age ten he moved to Hawaii and was raised by his maternal (white) grandparents.  So while Barack has always had a white parent or grandparents he has for all practical purposes never been raised by a black person. 

 

So whether by genetic or environmental evidence Barack ain’t black.