Passing

When I was in my 30's I read a book by James Michener entitled The Covenant, which was a history of the "South Africa" region of Africa. Michener was quite candid in the way he wrote about the races and the way they were treated there... About the difference between "black" and "colored" in the country of South Africa... About how the blacks in America were not black, by the South African definition, but colored.

As I recall... In South Africa, imported Indians and anything mixed w/ black were considered colored. Blacks were those native inhabitants who had no foreign genes mixed in.

I think it's interesting that Barack Obama is the child of a true black man from Africa and a white woman from the midwest. So, in a sense, he is probably more black than many children of mixed marriages in America.

It's ironic that he has next to nothing in common culturally with African Americans other than the color of his skin, being raised almost entirely by white people. Culturally, Barack is a white man who just happens to have dark skin. His cultural roots are not in the slave - sharecropper - segregated history that influences the average African American to this day.

So basically we have a very bright - white man by culture - half black man by genes, (who is unfortunately tainted by an ultra-liberal upbringing and education...) who is trying to "pass" as the first African American nominee for president of the United States.

If Jesse Jackson, Condoleeza Rice, or Colin Powell had been nominated... They would truly be the first African Americans so celebrated. But all Obama has going is the "skin thing."

The Obama phenomenon... Brouhaha... really is about color... Just color.