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On 07/13/09 11:26, Darren New wrote:
> Yep. Nowadays, it can serve as an excuse for failure, or a source of
I'm sure it was always used as an excuse for failure, if necessary ;-)
> Interestingly enough, there were a number of black pundits and
> spokespeople claiming Barak Obama isn't black because his African parent
> was actually born in Africa or something. Basically, his ancestors were
> never slaves, so he isn't really an African-American.
Well, I can understand _some_ of those sentiments. Saying he's not
African American is silly, but I guess they were pointing out that he
likely did not have the usual African American "experience" in terms of
his upbringing, and thus may be out of touch with most African
Americans. How much of that is true, I don't know. It seems he did spend
a lot of time with them while in Chicago.
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