I find the idea of "choosing" our race according to our heritage, quite ridiculous. We are what we are. Mulatto by definition is a person who has a parent who's white and a parent who's black. That's what he is, no matter how we look at it and I guess I would understan him a bit more if he was raised in a black environment and that's what he identifies himself with, but that's also not the case. He calling himself black is no other than political reasons. I dont think black people in America would like him as much if he called himself a mulatto (even though that's what he is).
I'd buy the political bag as reasons for calling himself black. But he still calls himself black and appears to associate himself with black culture. I don't think that is something that he's just decided to take on as soon as he decided to run for president. Maybe people have been giving him and assigning him a race such as black, that he now associates himself to be more black, than mulatto or white? Dunno, you'd have to ask him.
Being a white guy living in the bronx, can I now call myself a black guy? What are the requirements to be a part of a certain culture? Can anyone just profess themselves as black, white, whatever? What's funny is how you can have white and black parents yet still 'choose a side'... How can you say that you are black when you are both black AND white... why leave the rest out? A better question: Why is any of this important?
Lol, that was laughably stupid, ok, so he was never tortured, umm, that's a flat out lie. And let me get this straight, he elected to remain a pow so that he could use it to further his political career? Ok first off, that's just stupid. Secondly, how does the time spent in a pow camp make any difference? "Ohhh, you were a pow for 6 years instead of 1? well in that case you get to move up the ranks even further". It's so obvious that you just hate all politicians, but please, try and gets your facts straight, or at least, just some facts, before you make yourself sound stupid like that.
Get over it. The houses belong to his wife "Cindy". Sounds like you’re jealous. At least the McCain’s didn’t get in bed with a convicted hood to purchase land next door to their house in Chicago like someone else did………….
Yeah, is that why Obama, with his law degree from Harvard, chose to work in the south side of chicago to help out working class families as a community organiser instead of those lucrative and high paying jobs that he could have easily gotten, and was offered? You talk a lot of shit about other people rat, but I doubt you have anywhere near the same capability, or compassion to help out others like Obama has. I'm no saint either, I like to think I'd rather help people than take a fat paycheck, but reality is I would take the paycheck, it takes a strong willed person in this world to pass up money to help others, and Obama is one of those few, that makes him anything but an elitist.
Go tell it to his fellow POW's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBiti-ZbeO0&feature=related
What elitist Obama did 20+ years ago is irrelevant. Many people do things under the guise of "helping" people to boost their careers.