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Calling Barack Obama The First Black President May Be Racist

By Kleinheider Posted on November 30, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Marie Arana explains:

It’s as if we have one foot in the future and another still mired in the Old South. We are racially sophisticated enough to elect a non-white president, and we are so racially backward that we insist on calling him black. Progress has outpaced vocabulary.

To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president. He is more than the personification of African American achievement. He is a bridge between races, a living symbol of tolerance, a signal that strict racial categories must go.

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3 Responses to “Calling Barack Obama The First Black President May Be Racist”

  1. autoegocrat writes
    December 1st, 2008 7:14 am

    Surely there must be some unwanted side effect that results from identifying absolutely everything connected with how white people and black people interact with each other as racist.

    I can’t wait until after the inauguration, when he actually gets down to the business of governing. Hopefully by that time it ceases to matter what you call him, as long as you call him Mister President.

  2. Southern Beale writes
    December 1st, 2008 7:36 am

    Good lord do we absolutely HAVE to examine this topic further? Aren’t people tired of it?

    autoegocrat is right, all that matters is that he’s Mr. President. Give the racial stuff a rest, already.

  3. DADvocate writes
    December 1st, 2008 10:02 am

    Amen to what autoegocrat and Southern Beale said.

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