Tom Scudder ([info]tomscud) wrote,
@ 2008-06-13 08:40:00
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Scalzi on Obama's blackness
Following on a rant about the Fox News "Baby Mamma" incident:

It’s shit like this that makes this story on CNN, about whether Barack Obama should be considered black or biracial, an absolute hoot. Here’s a quick test on whether Obama should be considered fully black: Poof! Barack Obama has been magically transported to a KKK meeting in deepest, whitest Klanistan without his Secret Service detail. There’s a rope and a tree nearby. What happens to Obama? If you say, “why, Barack Obama walks out of there alive, of course” then sure, he’s biracial. Also, you’re a fucking idiot. To everybody who cares about Obama’s racial identity, either positively or negatively, the man is a black man, married to a black woman, who has black children. Black black black black black black black black.

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[info]jeevmon
2008-06-13 03:28 pm UTC (link)
We'll also get a lot of the "Osama-Obama" slip to be sure, and probably a lot of "Barack Hussein Obama" or "B. Hussein Obama." Not that they're saying he's a Muslim or anything. It's just that "people" are saying that he might be a Muslim, you know? And because "people" are talking about it, it must be a debatable question. Like whether that fist bump between Barack and Michelle was a "terrorist jab." Hey, Fox News just reports. It's up to us to decide.

They go with what they know. I wonder how they'll manage transitioning from the U.S. equivalent of TASS back to being the mouthpiece of the opposition.

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