Obama as a "uniter" is an interesting Marxist approach. Perhaps if all of us was raised by a white parent and white grandparents, we too would be "uniters." Why not just read his book - "Dreams from my father?" And then describe how being raised, during his formative years, where he was raised mirror the life of blacks in American Northern or Southern cities and country side. I do not write Obama is an immigrant. His story - meaning the story that he tells, and to a large degree the live he has lived, is that of the story of the immigrant and their first generation offspring. If you disagree with an interpretation why not simply state something to the effect "that my interpretation is" unless you are saying what Obama means is "I was raised by one white parent and white grandparents and therefore I am a "uniter," with the small physiological disposition of the descendants of Southern slavery. Without question he is African American, but that does not really tell much. "Uniter!" Trust me on the following: Obama is CEO for the capitalist class. WL. >> Barack Obama wonderful book, "Dreams from My Father," is the immigrant story, a black immigrant, rather than the history of the Negro People, and his acute awareness of this living history accounts for his unique and individual ability to cross the color line. When Obama writes, "My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t, end there," what is meant is that my identity is not defined on the basis of the color factor in American history. The words of Obama reveals why no self respecting Marxist, born and reared as part of the "baby boomers," can deploy the concept race, other than the petty bourgeois intellectuals unable to fully digest dialectics without opportunist sauce. << ^^^^^ CB: Obama's words don't mean that. Unlike most Black people he was raised by White parents and grandparents. This gave him an unusual ability to understand both aspects of his Duboisian double consciousness. It allows him to be a uniter, not a divider. Obama is not an immigrant. He had little contact with his immigrant father. He was raised by US natives **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004)
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