أوباما يفوز في آيوا .... هل أمريكا مستعدة لرئيس جذوره أفريقية ؟؟؟

Quote: حتي في امريكا بتفكروا بطريقتكم الفجه بتاعت جذوره افريقيه وسيقانه انجلوساكسونيه

Quote: كم من أمثال اباما من السود يحلمون بمثل هذا النصر الغريب فى الامر ان السود انفسهم لايصوتون احيانا للمرشحين السود كل التمنيات الطيبة لاوباما

Quote: ما ديل مستلبين يا حيدر

Quote: : كم من أمثال اباما من السود يحلمون بمثل هذا النصر الغريب فى الامر ان السود انفسهم لايصوتون احيانا للمرشحين السود كل التمنيات الطيبة لاوباما ما ديل مستلبين يا حيدر

(عدل بواسطة doma on 01-04-2008, 07:39 AM)

Quote: By SCOTT L. MALCOMSON Published: August 1, 2004 ON Tuesday, at about 9 p.m., Barack Obama was an Illinois state legislator running for the Senate. A half-hour later, after he had given the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, he was the party's hot ticket. Pundits even predicted he would be the first black president. Advertisement That's a lot to hang on one speech. But the reaction to his speech tells you a lot about racial politics in the United States today. Mr. Obama, 42, was not raised by black parents. His mother, who is white and from Kansas, split with his father, a Kenyan economist, when he was just a toddler. His father returned to Africa - and visited his son just once, when Barack was 10. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama's mother and her parents raised him, mainly in Hawaii. He did not grow up in a black world and his family had no particular connection to the black experience in America. Yet Mr. Obama had black skin and that made him, like it or not, a black man with a place in the centuries-long story of race in America. Mr. Obama seems to have realized early on that his situation would present him with some odd and complicated choices. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he writes that he did not talk much about his mother's whiteness because he feared that "by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites" - a shrewd assessment of white people for a 12-year-old, and an even shrewder assessment of himself. He would, therefore, go in the world as black because he thought it was the right thing to do, and because - it's clear from his book - he loved and missed and was mad at his father. Not that he was always treated "simply" as an African-American. True, he was pulled up several rungs of the ladder by one of the black political barons in Illinois, Emil Jones Jr. But he also faced you're-not-black-enough criticism from black rivals. More important for his Senate race and his new role on the national stage, Mr. Obama's ability to win white votes is what has made him such a rising political figure. In the primary race for Senate, "two of his voters were white for every one that was black, and that makes him a star," said David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington research group. Mark Blumenthal, who did polling for one of Mr. Obama's white primary opponents, said, "I don't think voters look at him stereotypically." When Mr. Blumenthal removed African-Americans and most college-educated liberals from his sample of Democratic voters, he still found Mr. Obama's share going to 28 percent from 5 percent in just a few weeks near the end of the campaign. Mr. Bositis noted that Illinois voters have long been more willing than most to elect black officials, but this strong an appeal remains remarkable. Yet some political analysts have wondered whether white voters don't also find him attractive because, while he is black, he is not the direct product of generations of black life in America: he is not black in the usual way. In a May article about Mr. Obama in The New Republic, Noam Scheiber wrote, "The power of Obama's exotic background to neutralize race as an issue, combined with his elite education and his credential as the first African-American Harvard Law Review president, made him an African-American candidate who was not stereotypically African-American." Certainly, Mr. Obama did not, in his convention speech, sound the familiar notes of African-American politics. He spoke much more as an immigrant, whose father came to the "magical place" of America. "In no other country on earth is my story possible," he said. Orlando Patterson, a sociologist at Harvard, said Mr. Obama is part of "a transcending culture" that goes beyond particular identities. "I see him as in the tradition of Colin Powell, and of a generation that wants to emphasize American identity rather than racial identity," Professor Patterson said. Mr. Obama's immigrant story echoed President Woodrow Wilson's words to a group of immigrants: "If some of us have forgotten what America believed in, you, at any rate, imported in your own hearts a renewal of the belief. If I have in any degree forgotten what America was intended for, I will thank God if you will remind me." (Of course, as a segregationist Wilson did not have people like Mr. Obama's father in mind.) In citing Thomas Jefferson's opening words on equality from the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Obama also broke the mold; African-American politicians have not cited those words without sarcasm and qualification for many years, if ever. Rather than positioning him within a black tradition, Mr. Obama's speech evoked, through his and his family's varied races, trades and professions, a diversity that aims at unity. His biography gave him a credibility no one else could have: he was able to identify with the poor and the Arab-American, with immigrants, with African-Americans. In other contexts, he has identified with white farmers - people like his mother's family. Most people can find something to identify with in Barack Obama, and he can find something to identify with in them. We have never had a politician quite like this. It may be a paradox, but only someone this rare could be so universal.

Quote: حتي في امريكا بتفكروا بطريقتكم الفجه بتاعت جذوره افريقيه وسيقانه انجلوساكسونيه

Quote: أوباما يفوز في آيوا .... هل أمريكا مستعدة لرئيس جذوره أفريقية ؟؟؟

Quote: أوباما يفوز في آيوا .... هل أمريكا مستعدة لرئيس جذوره أفريقية ؟؟؟

Quote: والجلابة ديل من القطب الجنوبى! لماذا لا يعول مناضلى دارفور على انفسهم! باراك وبوش وعيش ريجان! بئس النضال! والله قاعد اخجل ليكم! لم نسمع بحركات تحرر تراهن على سواعد الآخرين!

(عدل بواسطة Mohamed Suleiman on 01-10-2008, 10:33 AM)