[lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency

Jenny Brown jbrown72073 at cs.com
Thu Mar 19 13:04:09 PDT 2009


>Obama's father was black, but his mother was "white." That makes him "black" by U.S. racial standards, but it's a pretty weird convention, isn't it?

Yes, but that's the only sense in which anyone is white or Black, weird convention. Given that, his Blackness is not in question.

>And, really, you don't think that Obama gets a break from liberals and leftists because of his blackness? There's just no question about it. You think Charles would be blanketing the Internet with apologetics for John Kerry?

I have no idea, but I do remember the Clinton years and I recall a whole lot of apologizing going on, some of it even justified.

Jenny Brown



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