Comments on: Obama’s White Ancestors Owned Slaves… More Is He ‘Black Enough’

By: Robert Henry Eller

Robert Henry Eller — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:09:52 +0000

It should not be surprising that Barack Obama’s white ancestors were slave owners, common as this was.

But why this story is a bit silly is that the white ancestors of most “Black” Americans, and most “Black” Americans do have white ancestors, were, of course, slave owners.

So, little could make President Obama more like most other “Black” Americans than being descended from both slaves, and slave owners.

And nothing could make both Barack and Michelle Obama, and their ancestors, relatives and children, more American.

By: YHornet

YHornet — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:55:55 +0000

The politics of division will never serve to solve the nations problems. When we begin to think of ourselves as Americans first and everything else as second, or as not very important, then we will be able to deal with the really big problems facing us as a people. But isn’t that at least one of the messages Obama is trying to send? Perhaps that is why some are getting nervous.

By: prying1

prying1 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:01:34 +0000

Regarding the question about Ronald Walters, director of the African-American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland and if this was Strom Thurmond, or Trent Lott.

You asked, “do you think he would have been breaking out the tar and feathers?”

My answer is an emphatic, ‘Yes!”

However there is one problem with your question. You failed to address the running them out of town on a rail which surely would have been included in the process.