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>If all this is true, then the really interesting question is why these
>people wouldn't give a black guy a prime mortage, but would vote to make
>him president. Especially given the American belief that presidents are
>meant to be higher beings of impeccable probity and character.
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>Seth
One take from Black Agenda Report says it's because to whites in, Iowa say, he's not "all that black":
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=34
>Where does Obama - introduced to the Brown Chapel crowd as "living
>proof that a person of color can become anything they wish" - stand
>in relation to that towering hero of the Civil Rights
>Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and the black revolution that King
>helped lead?
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>As was painfully evident from Obama's forced drawls and other
>attempts to sound and look more culturally "black" (3), Obama has
>never been an especially African-American public figure. The man
>does not say "y'all" in his normal discourse. He deletes such
>terminology when addressing the AIPAC Policy Forum or the Council on
>Foreign Relations - to reassure them of his deep commitment to the
>predominantly white ruling class's imperial ambitions and to the
>apartheid state of Israel (4) - or the Caucasian masses in Des Moines.
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>One of the dirty little secrets about Obama is that he owes no small
>part of his popularity with many whites to the fact that many
>Caucasians don't think of the biracial Senator as being "all that black".