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Froggy asked:
Correct me if I’m wrong(and I’m sure some if you will even if I’m not), but doesn’t his bloodline have 0% connection with slavery?
Correct me if I’m wrong(and I’m sure some if you will even if I’m not), but doesn’t his bloodline have 0% connection with slavery?
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21 Responses to “Technically, wouldn’t Obama be African/American instead of African-American?”
His blood may come up “positive” in a test for something…that’s for sure!
umm, technically, he’s an American. Just like McCain, Nader, Barr, and whoever the worker’s party is running.
The African in African American signifies a link to ancestors in AFRICA. Note: Kenya is in Africa. Obama’s father (an ancestor) was from Kenya.
Why is this difficult to understand? It’s not about slavery. Its about ancestry. Obama is African American.
What does this have to do with Elections?
No, he’s an african with american decent…
It has to do with where your ancestors came from. It is not a slavery thing. THeresa Heinz Kerry ran around calling herself an African-American because she was from S. Africa
yes. He has no connection to slavery.
Why do people keep asking this? Do they really think that people are voting for him because he is black? We could really care less.
Obama grew up looking black in the South Side of Chicago. If you have ever been there I think you know what his experience was growing up.
Why don’t you show the same preoccupation with McCain’s bloodline that you show for Obama’s?
Oh that’s right…I forgot. Apparently bloodline only matters if one is not white. We don’t have to worry about white people.
no… african/american would mean either or…. he’s an african american..just like everyone else is…that is where we all came from you know…
Technicalities could change a lot of us and make everything more technical..we have a hard time comprehending most things without the technicalities…so to me, he is just Obama
and McCain is to be president!
McCain will win handedly, since Obama has no appeal to normal average Americans, he is a minority candidate only.
Not that is matters, but he is dominately WHITE, not black.
You could argue that he is as much Arabic as African.
But then, since he has no chance, all he is, well, is bad history.
Umm.. no. Obama is an American because he was born in America. He is an African American because his father was born in Kenya.
I think he would be an African American/ African since he was born here in the USA but has a dual citizenship within Africa.
he technically is both
it does not matter if he has slave blood
edit: to the poster above i don’t see how he can be more of one race than another how can he be more white than black….that’s just retarded
to the poster below people with the sub saharan african ancestry are called african americans not just slaves get your facts right
Technically, Obama is an American. I abhor this hyphenated American crap. If you are born in America, then you are an American. If you were born in Mexico and became an American citizen, then you can call yourself a Mexican/American, but your children , if born here, are Americans.
he is african-american it has nothing to do with slavery it has to do with ancestry. But thats a good tricky question that had me thinkin for a minute
Technically, he is part kenayan america.
He is NOT African American. Thats a term used for Americans of slave ancestory, who do to the horrors of slavery, do not know from what country or area they came from, so we use the term Africa. Obama knows where he came from. Hios mom is white and his other genetic half is from kenya, making him 1?2 kenyan American.
To use the term African American is factually and historically incorrect.
Obama has zero connection to americans today of slave ancestory. His own father didn’t arrive here until 100 years after slavery.
Obama is a prepackaged scam. He speaks well. Thats about it. The dems packaged him to dupe the african americans in the US to think he is one of them. He is not ( no link to slavery, educated at top notch Ivy league schools. He has more in common with Bush, that a ghetto black person)
He is also just white enough to to scare away white voters.
Its a well planned scam to sucker ignorant american voters.
if anything, its racism at its worst. We can’t run a “real” black man, so we will run this half black, ivy league, white educated, well speaking guy, who we will call black to dupe people into voting. then, we will call anyone ****** who dares to criticize him in the least, about legit topics.
The thing is,in this country if your skin is brown,you are Black the division doesn’t go that deep. When I walk into a room,no one ask what country my forefathers came from.
Of what importance is it if his “bloodline” is not connected with slavery? From your question, it sounds like you think his bloodline would have to include slavery to make him somehow….legitimate.
He is a human being, a man, an American, a husband, a father, a Christian, a politician, and more. Where his connection to slavery comes in baffles me.
I don’t see what the difference in the terms are or why there has to be a connection to slavery to be “African-American”. All the term means is that someone is American and their ancestors came from Africa. Like Italian-American or Irish-American.
Why is labeling him so important to you. Why not call him a Harvard-American.
Obama identifies himself as an African-American. It has nothing to do with slavery. It is how you look at yourself.
Yes, his mother is from America and his father from Kenya - Africa. He is right to identify himself as an AA - because being “bi-racial” probably would not have worked.
His thought is when you see him - you see an African-American. You do not see all of the ethnicity behind him - the white mother from Kansas and her ancestry, the Indonesian stepfather and his ancestry, and even the Black Kenyan father.
He was born here and looks just like every other African-American.