otto105
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In 1961, his father would have been lynched for marrying a white womanDoesn’t matterIf I side is going to constantly bring up race and other things that isolate us, at least they should know what they are talking about.
Obama isn't an African-American in the traditional sense, i.e. someone descended from slaves, he is an African-American who is half african and half whatever european amalgam his mother was. (She is purported to have a black ancestor back in the day but I'm not sure how valid that is).
In our culture, Black is still black
Regardless of your heritage, if your skin was dark, you still had to ride in the back of the bus
Having a white mother did not entitle you to ride up front half the time
Unless you were passing.
I have a feeling most people don't even know Obama isn't descended from former slaves, but is more like a half-immigrant/half american born 2nd generation person.
He was never exposed to the whole segregation thing in the South.
Technically they wouldn't have been allowed to be married in some States, and he could have been lynched just for sleeping with her.
Still doesn't change my points on this.
Obama had a unique upbringing. Early years in Indonesia, only black kid in his Hawaii schools. But he was subjected to our culture, hung out with the kids at school, smoked weed, listened to popular music, TV and movies
I think Obama was subjected to more of a typical American culture than Trump was. Trump was a severely spoiled rich kid, raised by nannies, incorrigable to the point his parents shipped him off to military school. Trump was raised to believe he was special....still does
Replace “special” with privilege.