Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Chris Brown wrote:
> My biggest problem is the amount of HUGE untruths my fellow Christians 
> and Americans will believe about our President, whether it's "He was 
> born in Kenya" to "he's a secret Muslim (which evidently all Muslims are 
> terrorists by this ilk)" to even "Obama is not even black."

Well, it all depends on how you define "black".  Wanda Sykes joked -- in 
Obama's presence -- that the black community was proud of him, but if he 
screwed up, they'd be like, "Hey, who put that mulatto in charge?"

Obama is half-white and was raised almost entirely by his white mother 
and/or her parents.  And while his father was African, his father was 
*not* African-American.  No one disputes either of these points.  So it 
all comes down to what the word "black" is supposed to mean.

> It troubles me that 43% of Republicans believed Obama was not American.

Did they really believe that he was not American (i.e. that not only was 
he not fit to *run* for president, but he shouldn't even be allowed to 
*vote* for president, or run for senator, etc., etc.)?  Or only that he 
was not *natural-born*?  There's a difference.

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