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Originally Posted by Keowa  Correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't he half black/half white? Doesn't that make him just as much a white president as a black one? Is he being hailed as the first African American president just because he has darker skin and can use that to his advantage as a "Black" president. If his skin was a little whiter would he be a "white" president even though he was half black?
I am sick of hearing him being hailed the first African American President. He is biracial. Not true African American as both parents aren't African American. He is of African American decent.
And to get back on topic no I don't think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. If he had been in office a few years and we had seen some change then yes maybe, but right now no. I think there are far more deserving people out there than him.
I wonder what he is going to do with his $1.4 million dollar prize he is going to get with it. |
And yet almost all of the blacks who descended from slaves have some white in them. In that sense, he's not unusual.
This is America where if you're part black, you'll be seen as black period. We have come a long way but we are not there yet.
He has set much in motion but you have to give him credit for repairing the strained relationships we had with the rest of the world. Frankly, I do not know who else would have deserved it.
It's an honor for him and for this nation.