Glenn Beck killed himself when he said, President Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people," last summer. Beck is so stupid he actually thinks that "Advertisers who get weak-kneed because some idiot on a blog site writes to them and says we need to stifle speech, I get a little frustrated by that." No Glenn Beck you are the idiot! Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)
President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people!" Really? President Obama would be a very sick man with serious mental illness if that statement where true. For one thing, Obama is not a Black man! Earth shaking breaking news. The President is biracial and has a brown complexion.
Prejudice America has the One-Drop Rule. Historically, the United States designates a Black person as any person with any known African ancestry. Legally the definition varied from state to state. Thomas Jefferson had slaves who were legally white (less than 25% Black) and legally slaves (50% Black). The results of the one drop rule was uniting the African American community and preserving an African identity. Some of the most prominent civil rights activists were multiracial, and advocated equality for all.
Enters Barack Hussein Obama II born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. Dunham was mostly of English descent. Her family traces to Germany and Ireland. Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born in County Offaly, Republic of Ireland. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. So Barack Obama is 50% white, not just 50% Black.
Ann Dunham with her father and children |
Therefore, if Glenn Beck is correct and President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" he learned it from his white relatives. Or he was so poorly treated by his white relatives, he developed a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Or even though his relatives were white, they had a deep-seated hatred for white people," and passed the prejudice to the child Obama. So what's the answer Glenn Beck? Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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