sick of racial comments about the president

Ok so I did not.vote this year mainly bc I think the president is a pawn and it doesn't matter who is president imo. I voted for Obama last election and waited 5 hours and missed work getting an absence to vote. I am a single mom an had nobody to watch my 10 month old and certainly wasn't standing in line for hours at a time with her. Plus if I did vote I was not voting for Romney or Obama.


With that said, I am white and the majority of my friends are black. I am seeing hate and racial.comments all over my fb from both sides. I'm really getting tired of it. I'm sick of people voting or not voting for obama bc he is black and disregarding his politics. I am sick of the bashing of both sides.

Being a white mother to a half black child, it really pisses me off when people say obama is black. He is mixed, half black and white. Saying he is black total disregards his white mother and her race. White blood is flowing through his veins. I am white and proud to be it, as I would any race I was born into. I do get how empowering it is to have a person with color to hold such a high position, but I am sick of hearing people my age say he is black bc that is how society sees him. No that is how you choose to see him, don't project your feelings on society. I will teach my daughter to be proud that she is biracial and that one side is not to.be dismissed or better than the other.

I didn't think it was that serious. He is black...and he is also white. Just like I am black...but I am also hispanic and white.

The only thing having to do with race that I've been seeing is posts about others posting about race  

I had a friend comment and say that if people didnt vote for Obama, then hatred and racism would win out.... seriously?

Quoting Man. Bear. Pig.:" I had a friend comment and say that if people didnt vote for Obama, then hatred and racism would win out.... seriously?"

Oh Lord lol.

Seriously... white blood?

I get where you're coming from OP.

I really liked his speech. I think Obama can represent anyone who shares his vision of America, regardless of thier race. I agree that ideally, we wouldn't need to label people but race is still an issue so the fact that he is black is significant. I think that calling him black isn't necessarily ignoring his biracial identiy as much as it is acknowledging the label he wears in the social-historical context of America. In segregated states there were two categories: white and black. Biracial people were called black. Biracial people faced all the same prejudice and systematic discrimination that fully black people did. That one reason why most halfwhite/half black people self-identify as black.

P.S. That Avi is so creepy -it took me a while to realise it was a Bush/Obama mash up!

Phone cut me off....I am seeing lots of religion bashing of both sides. People are blatantly stereotyping people for voting how they did. People are losing friends over this. I have never seen people so divided. It seems to me that people openly segregate themselves and really don't want equal integration. There us so much blame ans I am mainly seeing it over black and white only. It saddens me that people my age and younger are so caught up in the color of your skin. I wasn't raised that way. I see you for who you are.

I do get that there are racists people still. Slit of white people are racists but me being a white woman in a black community, I personally have been told I could not go.into a black friends home bc I was white, if a black man dates me then he is told he is a sell out or can't handle a black woman, and I have been called snow bunny, snow flake and white devil more times than I can count. I have experienced a lot of racism myself and I just wonder when it will end.

God saw fit to see a mixed president being of white, black and foreign decent. We should stopping grouping him into one category and bashing or parading him for it bc we should be proud both races are represented.

I hope this opens doors to women, people if all ethnic backgrounds and homosrxual or bisexual people being able to hold the same positional.


In other notes: cannot projects a record 20 women in senate and congress! Bad ass! Gay marriage and weed was passed in some places! Awesome

Quoting momma melissa85:" Phone cut me off....I am seeing lots of religion bashing of both sides. People are blatantly stereotyping ... [snip!] ... cannot projects a record 20 women in senate and congress! Bad ass! Gay marriage and weed was passed in some places! Awesome"

I don't believe "god" had anything to do with it at all.... I dont believe in god either. I think people used free will and chose who they wanted.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Lotusmama:</b>" I really liked his speech. I think Obama can represent anyone who shares his vision of America, regardless ... [snip!] ... black people self-identify as black. P.S. That Avi is so creepy -it took me a while to realise it was a Bush/Obama mash up!"</blockquote>




Yea but the obw drop theory is in the past. Doing it today perpetuates racism.

I feel sorry for his mother. I wonder how she must feel. If anything obama just announce how proud he is to be biracial and acknowledge it. Change has to start somewhere.

I get what you are saying , really I do but when your daughter goes out into the world she will be seen as a black woman, regardless of her exact makeup.
I am raising black men, doesn't matter how I see them that's exactly what they will be.

...pretty sure his blood is red.




Anyway, he's black. His skin color is black. If he had the same genetic lineage but came out pasty white, he'd be called white. No one cares what the actual makeup is. He looks black.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Man. Bear. Pig.:</b>" I don't believe "god" had anything to do with it at all.... I dont believe in god either. I think people used free will and chose who they wanted."</blockquote>




I am not a Christian and I do not believe in Jesus or any religion but I do believe in a higher power who created the human race. I just choose to call the higher power God. But even if there is no God. I don't personally believe in coincidence.


I just think how can you expect people to change if you don't. If you want equality stop calling obama black call him for what he is. Dont group him then expect society not to.


It has been all day long white and black racist remarks from both sides. Maybe it is bc I live in Alabama. Idk

<blockquote><b>Quoting ~~My Pet Wussy~~:</b>" I get what you are saying , really I do but when your daughter goes out into the world she will be seen ... [snip!] ... woman, regardless of her exact makeup. I am raising black men, doesn't matter how I see them that's exactly what they will be."</blockquote>




I just don't agree with that. I am raising a biracial woman and I better not catch her saying she is black or white. If she doesn't believe it herself, how can she expect anyone else to?

I know too many mixed people who only relate to black and even.down white people. Ill be damned if my daughter does that.