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RUSH: Los Angeles Times<\/a> had an interesting piece on the 19th. This is yesterday, by Louis Chude-Sokei, and it\u2019s a hyphenated name and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m pronouncing it right. It\u2019s titled, ?Redefining Black,? and centers upon the question of Barack Obama\u2019s relative blackness. Now, the main point according to this guy is that Obama is not black enough to get the support of the standing black American leadership because of his white Hawaiian African heritage. By the way, this is key, and Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters<\/a> had a great bunch of insight on this piece in the LA Times and points out here that Obama is not getting “the support of the standing Black American leadership because of his White\/Hawaiian\/African (meaning NOT African American, but real African) heritage.” In other words, it is his real African heritage that is denying him official black status with African-American leaders. Obama is aware of this. Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites February 11th on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviewing Obama. Says, ?Your mother was white, your father was African. You were raised in a white household, yet at some point you decided you were black.?<\/line><\/a>OBAMA: I\u2019m not sure I decided it. I think, you know, if you — if you look African-American in this society you\u2019re treated as an African-American, and when you\u2019re a child in particular, that is how you begin to identify yourself.<\/line>RUSH: Now, this is amazing. He\u2019s saying he didn\u2019t decide his race. He didn\u2019t choose, it was chosen for him. Amazing admission on the part of somebody who wants to be president of the United States to say that kind of self-decision is something I had no control over, which led me to say the following a couple of days later.<\/line>RUSH ARCHIVE: So what we conclude here is that he didn\u2019t define himself as black, that the way he looks does, ?I\u2019m not sure I decided it.? Well, if you didn\u2019t decide it, then how did it happen? ?Well, when you look like that, that\u2019s what you are.? Well, renounce it then. If it\u2019s not something you want to be, if you didn\u2019t decide it, renounce it, become white, just say so. He can. He could say he\u2019s white. He grew up in a white household, his mother was white. But he said he didn\u2019t have any say-so over this.<\/line>RUSH: Now, this comment of mine fortunately and laughingly caused all kinds of hysterics in the Drive-By Media. But I mean what\u2019s the natural reaction to this? The natural lib reaction is, ?Oh, poor guy, that\u2019s right, you know, we\u2019re such a racist, bigoted society, that we determine how somebody\u2019s going to grow up and how they\u2019re going to be looked at. Especially kids, our kids are mean-spirited, impolite little bullies, and our kids made Obama feel black. Not Obama. Obama didn\u2019t know, wasn\u2019t aware, way he was treated.? But now he knows, and if he doesn\u2019t like it he can renounce it. He could very easily say, ?I\u2019m not black.? Some would say, ?Well, he can\u2019t do that, he\u2019s got African-American blood — he\u2019s got African blood.? Well, his mother was white. He could say, ?I choose to be white.? It would be kind of interesting if he did. He could do this. Why is the automatic assumption that he?s black? 50-50, he can do what he wants. He is in charge here. But we know the answer to all this. These comments in a couple days when they show up on the left-wing websites — well, this might make the network news tonight. More fireworks tonight on how Limbaugh\u2019s a racist bigot, whatever else. Jake Tapper<\/a> last Friday on ABC\u2019s Good Morning America said this.<\/line><\/p>\n

TAPPER: There is a feeling among the Obama campaign that a lot of African-Americans don\u2019t even know that he\u2019s African-American because they don\u2019t know much about him yet, so they\u2019re hoping things will turn around in time.<\/line>RUSH: How can this be? A lot of African-Americans don\u2019t even know he\u2019s African-American? Now I\u2019m really confused. If he is African-American based on how he\u2019s treated because of the way people see him, how in the name of Sam Hill can there be a whole lot of people who do not know he\u2019s African-American? Are they just listening to him on the radio? Anyway, it\u2019s not me obsessed with race. I\u2019m simply reacting to what Obama is saying, what Jake Tapper is saying. We have this LA Times story: Obama not black enough. And there have been several of these. Now, the feeling of Obama not being black enough for black American leaders to warm up to is, according to this piece in the LA Times, “because of the growing community of immigrant blacks in the US who are not really African Americans in the way that black leaders prefer. Meaning that they aren\u2019t Americans but immigrants and they are immigrants that do not kow-tow to black American prejudices and racial political demagoguery causing Black leaders to distrust them.” <\/line>In other words, Obama\u2019s got a problem because he\u2019s not African-American, and therefore not part of the civil rights tradition and the slavery tradition — he\u2019s from Africa. He\u2019s a straight old immigrant. It\u2019s total discrimination. The African-American leaders are discriminating against real Africans according to this guy writing in the Los Angeles Times. Also, and here\u2019s another thing — stick with me on this — because the immigrants are often better educated, or interested in being so, than their native born American fellows.” They are also shunned. Well, we know this to be true, doing well on test scores, some blacks are accused of being too white. “Naturally, Chude-Sokei completely avoids the fact that natural born African Americans are less educated and less interested in education but the inference is clearly there if the reader is paying attention.”<\/line>Listen to this. “A good proportion of immigrants tend to be better educated than African Americans, don\u2019t have the ‘chip\u2019 of racial resentment on their shoulder and exhibit the classic immigrant optimism about assimilation into the mainstream culture.” Now, what can you infer from reading this? You can infer that African immigrants are better educated than African-Americans, they don\u2019t have the chip on their shoulder because they haven\u2019t been raised that way with the so-called slavery tradition and culture, and they come here and they\u2019re optimistic. They just arrived in America. They want a better life, whereas African-American leaders are telling their charges, ?It ain\u2019t possible because there\u2019s racism in America. The only way you can get halfway where you want to go is through us and affirmative action.? That\u2019s why people like Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann and Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, are routinely scorched because they have made it without going through the prescriptions required by the African-American leadership in this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a>Obama hasn\u2019t, either, and this is the reason they are conflicted. How in the world do you sit there and trash a Condoleezza Rice, a Ken Blackwell, a Michael Steele, a Clarence Thomas, and then give Obama a pass? The only difference is he\u2019s a lib, he\u2019s a good lib. But still not an African-American. So now they\u2019re writing LA Times columns on, is he black enough? And they call us the racists. They say we\u2019re the ones preoccupied with race. Here they\u2019re having a hand-wringing session over whether Obama is black enough. “Now, Chude-Sokei is a professor at UC Santa Cruz, so his perspective is a bit different than the average person\u2019s and his claim that whites ?exploit these differences? is absurd in the general population, even as it might be true in the University setting. Many whites, however, exploit these differences to magnify the problems of African Americans while avoiding charges of racism. And because these differences often result in greater employment and more educational opportunities for immigrants and their descendants, they also feed tensions between native and immigrant blacks.”<\/line>The bottom line, even though this guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying here, is that immigrant blacks, true African immigrants, are posing a problem here, and Obama is one of them. Well, he\u2019s not one of them. He\u2019s a citizen. Well, I don\u2019t know if Obama did sell out if he would be called an Uncle Tom. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m qualified to proclaim that or answer this. “Chude-Sokei also makes another key mistake common to the University set. He assumes that black pathology is still all the fault of White people. He says of immigrant blacks, ?They also are less responsive to American racial traumas?, as if these ?traumas? are ongoing and still integral to how Blacks can fit into white society. If this were true then immigrants would find themselves in agreement with the so-called Black leadership in America who continually fan the flames of race hatred to justify their places of power.”<\/line> <\/line>This is exactly right. So these African immigrants are less responsive to American racial traumas. Of course, as we stated, these traumas must never end because there\u2019s a race business out there. Just to remind you again, this is a column in the LA Times. I am reacting to it: Is Obama black enough? This is Warner Todd Huston concluding here — ?So, Blacks do not distrust Obama because he is an immigrant and therefore not ?black enough.\u2019 They distrust him because he is able and successful, smart and educated so that is what makes him not ?black enough.\u2019? It\u2019s hard to conclude otherwise when you start reading all this. I\u2019m telling you, folks, it is the American left, the Drive-By Media who are obsessed with race and gender and everything else that defines us as different on the basis of appearance. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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