On 12/30/2011, mp <[email protected]> said:
> Obama is not racist, but it is racist to say that
> he is "black". He was born of a "white" woman,
> raised by a "white" woman and went to "white"
> elite schools. So, his skin is darker, because his
> father, with whom he hardly ever had anything
> to do, was "black". And his wife is "black", so
> we call him black: now that is racist.
Apart from not making clear who the "we" in question is ("Whaddayah mean by
'we' ___ man?"), if one takes seriously the (il)logic of this exegesis, it
is at best another example of Russell's so-called "Barber paradox" (does
the barber who shaves everyone in his village who does not shave himself
shave himself?) . . . or at least of disregarding or being ignorant of what
Obama himself has said about his own self-identity while denying
self-agency to him.
If "Obama is not racist" yet, as is the fact, he has said repeatedly that
he self-identifies as a "Black" man - a labeling said above "that is
racist" - is he racist?
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