For those of us who would LOVE to live in a ‘post-racial’ America, this 48-year-old caucasian American knows that there is too much profit for too many for that ever to happen.

Barack Obama would never have been elected President fifty years ago - because of the color of his skin.

Sadly, he was elected last year - because of the color of his skin.

Nobody was allowed to talk about that during the election. When Geraldine Ferraro mentioned that Barack Obama was where he was, largely based upon his ethnicity, she was shut down. She was condemned for stating the obvious.

I could absolutely care less about the ethnicity of any president. They can ALL be black as far as I’m concerned. ALL I care about are values - and I simply don’t share the same values as President Obama; therefore, I didn’t vote for the man….and judging from the election results from yesterday, a sizable portion of America has come to the realization that THEY don’t share the same values as President Obama.

Obama worshipped with a black racist pastor. Perhaps THAT’s where the pessimism comes from? Perhaps it’s because Obama calls himself “Black” when he actually is biracial.

Yep, I AM pessimistic about race relations and our leader is a very big part of my pessimism.

I am pretty pessimistic about it, mostly because people won’t shut up about it… racist this and racist that. Also, ”heritage celebrations” of every race and culture imagionable simply drives the us vs. them mentality that you are your race no matter what and it would be a sin to forget it or to conform to any other culture in which you live. Give it up people, it is just melanin in your skin, nothing more.

Sorry Larry, its just not melanin its cultural ideals that separate groups.

The lie that’s been told about America has to be stopped. laws keep us from becoming balkized, and it don’t take much for those to change does it?.
we as a country are so idealized from the time we start to attend our school system with this notion, we are all the same “NOT” just poll the congress and see if we the people are all the same. I think many corporations have just a bit more influence in how our elected law makers make decision. would any of you PhD’s disagree with that?

the question should be this how does a society let the majority rule and give the minority some say? answer MHOP can’t be done! I truly hate to use the Bible as an example. when we talk about having two masters. you will hate one and love the other. if we as a republic don’t let the majority rule then we will fail and we are in that mode now.

I truly believe that a area should be set aside in this country for minorities to live and rule as they choose to. our country was segregated for years and we as a country put a man on the Moon. Our public school systems were the finest.

There’s been two supreme court decision that started us down that path of destruction.
First 1948 the supreme court ruled on a case from St. Louis about private property deed covenants restriction as it relates to race.

“(1948), argued 15–16 Jan. 1948, decided 3 May 1948 by vote of 6 to 0; Vinson for the Court, Reed, Jackson, and Rutledge not participating. Shelley is one of four cases known collectively as the Restrictive Covenant Cases, the others being McGhee v. Sipes, Hurd v. Hodge, and Urciolo v. Hodge. In its decision in these cases, the Court held that state judicial enforcement of agreements barring persons from ownership or occupancy of real property on racial grounds is forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also determined that enforcement of racial covenants by federal courts violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
“ Although the courts used the Negro as reason for the decision but it stemmed from the another group that was gaining power in the courts and judicial system, and heavy in involvements in the banking system the Jews.

The United States Supreme Court inhibited the use of restrictive covenants in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). The Court conceded that the covenants themselves constituted private action and therefore did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. However, because state courts enforced the covenants, the Court found unconstitutional state action.

And the other court case was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954),[1] was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court’s unanimous (9–0) decision stated that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The correct decision should have been yes, funding should be equal but attending same schools is out of the question. The cultural difference is so vast that even today its unreachable. WE can’t ask a black man to change what he is. The black man wants the majority to except his differences when its not the same as the majority, that is wrong.

And the current majority, between caucasion, and persons of color is WHO?
I did not need 8 paragraphs of highly intellectual and sophisticated rhetoric or copy.

Because people are pessimistic about the approach he has taken or his not being able to fullfill campaign promises it is now racial.

Fact - He said tax cut for 90% of Americans - not
Fact - He was going to pay for his programs by getting us out of Iraq - Not
Fact - He was going to make the Health Care reform process transparent - Not (anyone really knows what is going on??)

He’s done absolutely nothing to get things turned around - all he is doing now is saying he inherited a bad situation. The “Blame Bush” days are over - time to step up and DO SOMETHING.

I didn’t beleive he’d do the above anyway but this is not racial it’s philisophical.

Regarding the comment “Perhaps it’s because Obama calls himself “Black” when he actually is biracial.”

Calling Americans of mixed (black/white) race black is a common practice of white people as well. Furthermore it’s origins are from a law often referred to as the “One Drop Rule”, which was used by whites to classify those of mixed race during the Jim Crow era. According to a recent news story, a white Justice of the Peace in Louisiana still openly thinks along those lines.

Here would be the best test on heritage. Do as the Jews do they based it on the mother. If your mother is black, your black, if your mother is white your white. simple.

I think most of these comments miss the point of this column. Obviously SNL is not strictly factual, unless those facts happpen to be hilarious. Exaggeration is usually necessary (i.e. Palin/Fey). This fact checking only serves to remind us what is and is not so Mr. Page can get to his point. The point IMHO is that while Obama has made some accomplishments, it does not seem like it and that it is probably in his interest to remind us what he has accomplished before he’s forever painted by the perception. Like Ford’s bumbling.

My take on the skit was that it was a very clever satire of the right-wing complaints about the drastic changes to the country caused Obama in the last 10 months (socialism, etc) by pointing out the exact opposite possiblity.

It’s impossible to look at Obama and not think ‘black’! The only reason anyone even considers him as biracial is because people know the parental history ONLY! If you did not know his mother was a white woman then you wouldn’t give it a moments time to consider him a white, AND,he doesn’t consider the white part, having made a concious decision to live ‘black’. The black gene is dominent when people of different races procreate, and features are then a part of both, however, white influence will be seen most of the time, but not always - as with obama. If you weren’t told he was 1/2 white there is no way in this world you would even consider that was the case, but there are children that WILL display the influence.
When he was voted in, the black people voted for him because he was/is BLACK, not because of talent or intelligence - we ALL know what that is - missing! He is referred to a the first BLACK president, not the first BIRACIAL president, so even OUR own subconcious thoughts are that the man is black! So, what is the insistance that he is ‘biracial’ when all things dictate him to be a black man? To over simplify, he is a black man with some white blood! There won’t ever be a completely acceptable position to be held between whites and blacks - there are too many differences besides cultural! Seldom does anything think the same, act the same, goals the same, entertainment the same, work the same, etc. The two races are 180 degrees apart - for always! Whos’ gonna change - you?