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How black is Obama » wenBLOG

How black is Obama

In the last few years I’ve become increasingly concerned about the use of race as a determining factor for personal identification.  I’m the first to proudly admit that I am (without the benefit of a sanctioned - or unsanctioned for that matter - thorough study) that I am a white American male (both of my parents are Caucasian, their parents were Caucasian whose parents were Caucasian, etc.).  Having said that though I find myself currently chuckling at the thought that I’ve never found it necessary to say this publicly to identify myself.  And there’s the rub.

As the intensity of Obamania thrusted Barack Obama on to the national political scene, I started to look into how a person’s race is determined.  All of those forms that we’ve filled out over the years - Social Security, enrollment papers, insurance, job applications - most if not all include a section asking for your race or ethnicity.  As I said before (because thanks to Obamania I find it necessary to say this) I’m white, so I’ve always checked the “Caucasian” box on these forms because it says so on my birth certificate (even though I sometimes tend to go against prevailing sentiments, I do think it’s necessary to adhere to the law when appropriate).  You see according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s report on “DIMENSIONS OF SELF IDENTIFICATION AMONG MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC RESPONDENTS IN SURVEY INTERVIEWS”: 

Racial and ethnic identity is obtained from the information provided in items on the birth certificate corresponding to open-formatted items 25 and 26 on the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth.  NCHS natality statistics do not tabulate the race of the newborn child; rather, statistics are tabulated according to the racial and ethnic identity of the mother. Current coding protocols stipulate that, if more than one race is reported for a parent, only the first race listed is coded. Hence, most if not all multicultural parents are classified as belonging to only a single race, based upon data likely to have been reported in an inconsistent manner.

For those of you too lazy to read that explanation or just unwilling to believe, it means that if your mom was white, you’re white.  Which means that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Mayor Frank Jackson of the City of Cleveland, me and anybody else whose mother is Caucasian - is white.

Welcome to the club guys. I bestow upon you all of the targeted attacks and blame that we white men have endured in recent years. Sucks to be us doesn’t it?… Not really.  As my mother often told me growing up nothing was a greater blessing for me than to be born a white male in the United States of America - and I agree. I’ve been lucky as hell and I wouldn’t trade my background for anything, but…

Don’t you find it ironic that the people (liberals and TV pundits) who portray themselves as so politically correct are also the ones who rush to embrace Obama’s “blackness”?  If I’m supposed to be colorblind at their behest, why aren’t they?

Frankly I don’t care about Obama’s race, but in the spirit of offering a solution (I’m a praglertarian - pragmatic libertarian) I would like to propose that anyone born of immediate mixed race (meaning their parents are of different races) be known as a “Comblinasian” (this is a takeoff on the term “Cablinasian” used by Tiger Woods in reference to his own mixed ethnicity).

I’m not necessarily an Obama fan, but I wish him well in his campaign - I just hope he doesn’t make race an issue, but if he does… he should do it as a white man or as a Comblinasian.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am and is filed under Uncategorized, Politics, Northeast Ohio, Democrats, Society, White House in '08, MSM, Obama. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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2 Responses to “How black is Obama”

  1. Wendell says:

    By chance this morning, I came upon yesterday’s interesting OpEd piece (Ready for Obama’s big test–and ours) from the Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page about Obama (the column was reprinted in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer). If this post intrigued you, Page’s piece is worth a read.

    January 18th, 2007 at 8:02 am

  2. The Silent Majority » Blog Archive » How black is Obama? says:

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