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Back to historic. All political parties and movements have minor players and participants who are never leaders. Some of these aspire to lead, and run for office, but never win the vote. As a result, they are never decisionmakers. Barak Obama is the first non-white person to be the nominee of a major party. Given the country's long and violent history of racial ignorance and fear, that is a watershed moment. Last week, you could say that it would never happen. You can't say that anymore. It's going to soothe a lot of rancor. We might even start being nice to each other again. Are you with me there?

I'm guessing the movie "Roots" plays over and over in your head when you think in terms of black people .....true ?
Get over it. I'm sure that black people must find you to be condescending.
Don't let the media define your place in the world.

Actually, I've never seen "Roots," but I know enough to guess you watch it backwards so that it has a happy ending.

I myself think if Obama is not elected, we, The United States will be seen as a racist Nation. I myself think if he fails, we , white America, will be the excuse as many have already said.

im getting tired of the word racist. didnt we learn anything from the past. blacks vrs whites could be very much relitive to germans vrs the world and the jewish. people are xenophobic, not racist. not to race but of other cultures. and its always the worst of the cultures that represent the whole. so of course we can point fingers at a whole race and culture just cause our minds can only comprehend things bye catagory. when infact we all create our own fate, and should be accountable without birth titles. but human nature will never learn. it will go on and on

I have read up on many countries and looked up slavery as it pertains to each. It is far more widespread than to be only associated with The United States, however we get far more credit than any other Nation for this.

"Where were you during the South African struggle with apartheid?"

Not born at that time and you? Your point?

Go exercise self righteous, self pity and remorse about being white with someone else because I do not share your opinion that I owe anyone anything because I don't judge people by color and I don't need you in all you grander telling me the definition of myself.

But, leave me out of your racist BS analogy .

I think to back to "the one that controls the money" holds the power. The Federal Reserve Bank holds the power in our nation. Our government gave them "watch" over the gold which equates to our " paper and coin money. The Federal Reserve Bank is nothing more than a private bank in which our government borrows money and pays it back with interest. They are never audited. For all we know there is no more gold to cover the paper and coin.

Politics is all about race and the color is green. Once seduce by power and money the secrets will hold in code. They just placate us into believing our votes count.

Mr OBAMA is nothing more than just another 'non-white' on the globe. His parentage speaks for itself.......he's not 100% ANYTHING....black, nor white.......even his 'experience' matriculating in a larger society does not support a clear notion than Mr. Obama has fully participated in the 'black experience'.............that even irks some demagogic so-called 'black leaders'............black folks have always in some sense despised mulattoes......that is factual and inarguable...........many genotypical and phenotypical 'blacks' still harbor racist thoughts in re mulattoes, quadroons, etc......but the same black racists are gleefully happy to 'own' or 'claim' a mulatto or quadroon as 'one of OUR own', when NOTHING could be further from the truth.....

Many, if not downright most of the so-called 'black', successful, noted, visible 'leaders', 'innovators', 'politicians', 'scientists', corporate movers and shakers from a United States historical perspective, were NOT truly 'black' at all............that too should be obvious to any dispassionate, lucid, and sober follower of American history, and current events.

Calling Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Colin Powell, Harold Ford, Charlie Rangel, Mariah Carey, or Tiger Woods "black" is quite laughable. They are of course more accurately defined as 'non-white', no doubt.

Oprah Winfrey is a 'black woman'...clearly so...and accurately so. Any reasonable person can 'see' that Mariah Carey has nothing in common with Oprah Winfrey.

Michael Jordan is truly 'black'.....no doubt. Tiger Woods mother is ASIAN (Thai born citizen), and his father a mulatto....... any idiot can seen that Mr. Woods has little in common with Mr Jordan, genetically. The same thing could be said about Derek Jeter or the Yankees, and another NBA star, Tony Parker.

Uniqueness Of The One-Drop Rule

Not only does the one-drop rule apply to no other group than American blacks, but apparently the rule is unique in that it is found only in the United States and not in any other nation in the world. In fact, definitions of who is black vary quite sharply from country to country, and for this reason people in other countries often express consternation about our definition.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html

Legislation

The 1910–19 decade was the nadir of the Jim Crow era by most measures. Tennessee adopted a one-drop statute in 1910. It was followed by Louisiana the same year, Texas and Arkansas in 1911, Mississippi in 1917, North Carolina in 1923, Virginia in 1924, Alabama and Georgia in 1927, and Oklahoma in 1931. During this same period, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Utah retained their old "blood fraction" statutes de jure, but amended these fractions (one-sixteenth, one-thirtysecond) to be equivalent to one-drop de facto.[4] By 1925, almost every state had a one-drop law on the books, or something equivalent.[citation needed] These laws gave justification to bureaucrats like Walter Plecker of Virginia,[5] Naomi Drake of Louisiana,[6] and similar people around the country, who insisted on labeling families of mixed ancestry as Black.

Before 1930, individuals of mixed European and African ancestry had usually been classed as mulattoes, sometimes as black and sometimes as white. The main purpose of the one-drop rule was to prevent interracial relationships and thus keep the white race "pure." In 1924, Plecker wrote, "Two races as materially divergent as the White and Negro, in morals, mental powers, and cultural fitness, cannot live in close contact without injury to the higher." In line with this concept was also the assumption that Blacks would somehow be "improved" through White intermixture.

Plecker had been preceded by Madison Grant, who had written in his book The Passing of the Great Race: "The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is a negro; the cross between a white man and a Hindu is a Hindu; and the cross between any of the three European races and a Jew is a Jew."[7]

In the case of Native American admixture with whites, the one-drop rule was extended only as far as those with one-quarter Indian blood due to what was known as the "Pocahontas exception." The "Pocahontas exception" existed because many influential Virginia families claimed descent from Pocahontas. To avoid classifying them as non-white, the Virginia General Assembly declared that a person could be considered white long as they had no more than one-sixteenth Indian blood.

In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its opinion in the case of Loving v. Virginia, conclusively invalidated Plecker's Virginia Racial Integrity Act, along with its key component, the one-drop rule, as unconstitutional.

Despite this holding, the one-drop theory is still influential in U.S. society. Multiracial individuals with visible mixed European and African and/or Native American ancestry are often still considered non-white, unless they explicitly declare themselves white or Anglo (this used to be called "passing"), and are typically identified instead as mixed-race, bi-racial, mulatto or mestizo, or Black or American Indian, for example. By contrast, these standards are widely rejected by America's Latino community, the majority of whom are of mixed ancestry (usually Amerindian and white, but for whom their Latino cultural heritage is more important to their ethnic identities than "race." The one-drop rule is not generally applied to Latinos of mixed origin or to Arab-Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

The Pencil test

During the system of apartheid in South Africa, one drop of sub-Saharan blood was not enough to be considered black. South African law maintained a major distinction between those who were black and those who were coloured. When it was unclear from a person's physical appearance which racial classification they belonged to, the pencil test was employed. This involved inserting a pencil in a person's hair to determine if the hair was kinky enough for the pencil to get stuck. If the pencil remained stuck in a person's hair, the person was "black."

- ibid

Actually, I've never seen "Roots," but I know enough to guess you watch it backwards so that it has a happy ending.

Even South Africa, at the height of apartheid, resorted to other means.

It means that someone like Obama, who is half-white, will only be seen as half-black.

It means that someone like Obama, who is half-white, will only be seen as half-black.