IMO, those complaining that he is called ''the first African-American President'' are much more bothered by the fact that he is that than that he is called that.
In fact, its pretty obvious.
The only thing that is obvious is either your ignorance or your attempt to twist the facts.
Fact, Obama is NOT African-American, Obama IS Arab-American.
End of story.
If Obama wasn't famous and was walking down the street, and someone asked you what his race is, you know full well what you'd say.
Or you could think of it as him having more African ancestry than any previous president. I don't really understand why the resistance to him being labeled black or African American. What does it matter?
Why should that be totally ignored, in a time when so many Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons make the case that minorities are so much more disadvantaged than others? Shouldn't conservatives be using his minority status as proof that they can succeed without government intervention, rather than isolating minorities by mocking his mixed ancestry?
I just don't get it. Just like I don't understand why the world will end now that he'll be president, when McCain wasn't so different.
Why don't we call him the first Muslim-America president??
Here is ample evidence of that supposition:
Kenya, once a shining beacon of peaceful democracy in Africa, was hurled into of Odinga fueled violence and ethnic cleansing.
Among the 72 individuals and organizations that contributed money to Odinga's 2007 presidential run in Kenya, Shabbir lists "Friends of Senator B.O." as having donated 66,000,000 Kenyan schillings, about $950,000.
Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman's second oldest son, reportedly donated 53,450,000 Kenyan schillings, about $765,000.
(the two top contributors were friends of Obama and the family of Libyan strongman Gadhafi.)
Raila made a deal with the world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.
The deal pledged the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:
b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions. (they can behead you for drinking a beer, want some Taliban pictures for proof?)
c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.
g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."
Barack Hussein Obama speaking on behalf of his 'cuz' Raila Odinga in Kenya.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
(Remember William J Clinton puling our UN peacekeeping force out of Rwanda so that nearly a million mostly Christian tribesmen could be hacked to death??)
excerpts:
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
Then of course NOI leader Louis Farrakhan promised America a bloodbath if Obama wasn't elected.
But who noticed????
BTW, Obama is considered to be a Muslim throughout the Arab world.
I'm sure the same people hated the fact that a few years ago marked the first time 2 african american head coaches were in the super bowl and one of them was the first to win one.
You miss the point.
No one is complaining about having an African-American president, the point of the thread is that we will soon have the first Arab-American president.
Perhaps you can explain why the media keeps hawking the "African-American" angle when that isn't ture???
hating the person and hating the term are 2 different things. Amazing how quick some are to apply the racist label
Talk about denseness and can't see the forest for the trees.
The discussion isn't about use of the term, the thread is about MISUSE of the term.
And while we are at it, let's discuss the NAACP.
The NAACP was formed by the same people who helped bring about the Lenin overthrow of the Russian government, from it's founding it was about 30 years before they had any African-American members, it was about 50 years before they had an African-American president.
So you could say the NAACP isn't about advancement of 'colored people', it is about advancement of marxism.
or prespaafrican
