Claiming Obama isn't black because his mother is white is to express a deep ignorance of American history. The racist power structure that has existed throughout American history didn't care about percentages. It cared about one drop.
Also, stating you became "a republican after Kennedy was killed" puts you in the awkward position of saying you don't think you're worthy of being treated as an equal in society. A Democrat signed the Civil Rights Act. His Republican opponent was too busy pandering to people who compare black people to animals.
(1) I don't "claim" anything. I stated the FACT that Barry is NOT a black man. I don't give a damn about your "history lesson". Take it somewhere else junior.
(2) Democrats wanted NOTHING to do with civil rights. NOTHING. LBJ (after refusing to vote yes for years) decided it was a "good way to increase the democrat voting block and pushed for passage. He then pushed for passage of the "Great Society" bill that has kept poor blacks enslaved ever since.
(3) Robert Byrd (D) West Virginia an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK is, as far as I know, the only elected official to refer to blacks as "****** animals".
You need to come to terms with the fact that the democrats are the most hateful, vile people on earth. Always have been and always will be. Republicans offer a "hand up" and not a "hand out". Still, with that having been said, The Republican Party has turned into "democrat lite" and I want nothing to do with them, either. I am a proud Independent and will remain so until the republicans get their collective heads out of their asses.
You may not watch a history lesson, but you sure as hell need one.
FACT: Persons of mixed ancestry where part of that mix is black have been considered black through American history. As a matter of percentage, Obama is four times more black than Homer Plessy was. Are you going to claim Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson fame, wasn't black either?
FACT: Northern liberals, who were all in the Democratic Party by the 1950s, were the strongest supporters of civil rights.
FACT: Republicans, after accounting for regional differences, were always more hostile to civil rights. There were far fewer Republicans in the South, but they were even more opposed to civil rights than southern Democrats were.
FACT: All of the civil rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s passed because of Democratic votes.
FACT: The Republicans had an active white supremacist (Haley Barbour) as chair of it's governor's association after the year 2000.
FACT: The Republican majority leader in the Senate (Trent Lott) had to resign over his praise of segregation in
2002.
Well, well, well....Looks as though a history lesson is, indeed, in order. Re: Civil Rights Bill:
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."
The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican.
YOU stated that it was a republican who referred to blacks as "Animals". The only record that I can find is that of Robert Byrd (D) calling blacks "****** animals" and referring to those who supported the Civil Rights passage as "white *******"
FACT: Robert Byrd was a White Supremacist LONG before the comments made by Haley Barbour and Barbour never belong to the KKK (much less as an Exalted Cyclops like Byrd)
FACT: Lott — a neat-haired perfectionist with a penchant for order — rose to the pinnacle of Washington politics as Senate majority leader but was ousted from the post in 2002 over remarks he made at retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party that were interpreted as support for Southern segregationist policies. President Bush did not stand behind Lott after his remarks about Thurmond, increasing pressure on the lawmaker to step down from the leadership post. At no time did Lott EVER speak in support of Thurmond's policies and beliefs, but due to rampant "Politically Correct" speak in Washington, Lott decided to step down.
FACT: Mulatto is a term commonly used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of any "mixed" ancestry. See Forbes, 1993 and mixed ancestry. Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.
1. Mulatto - Merriam Webster dictionary: the first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person
The term is not commonly used any more but is generally considered archaic because of its association with slavery, colonial and racial oppression; accepted modern terms include "mixed" and "biracial".
No matter how you wish to frame your argument, Obama is NOT a black man. Assuming that you are white, you have a white Mother and Father. I am black. I have a black Mother and Father. Sorry - but that's the way it works. I understand that you NEED Obama to be "black" so as to further your BS "hope and change" nonsense. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for a REAL black man or woman to be elected for that to happen. But what the hell....you made it halfway to your goals, didn't you?
