Oboma and the black underclass

Barack Obama is being criticized by the black underclass as not being responsive to their needs. The "What about the black community, Obama?" poster drives home a point: even Obama knows that the woes of the poor are not solved immediately. While obsessively liberal, he is not nor will he ever be a descendant of slavery or uncle Tom. Obama is just the child of a very liberal white mother and a man who happened to have black skin. His father WAS NOT an African American. He was African. Everyone seems to miss (or dismiss) the social significance of this. . We understand Jesse Jackson and his goals (while I disagree with much of what Reverend Jackson espouses, I believe he believes that he is right. He actually has the background to have experience.) Obama is a child of textbook liberalism. Anthropology as a social science tends to lean liberal, often to the point of socialism.

The point here is to define Obama by his race is a mistake. Since Mr. Obama is technically African-American there is a need for a different term to define traditional Black Americans. I will use the term American Negroes. I realize it is a somewhat archaic term and has a negative connotation in some quarters, I will still use it for African Americans whose African ancestors arrived in America prior to the twentieth century. The bottom line is Obama is NOT an American Negro. While he wants them to embrace him as one of their own, he is not. He is the same as a white liberal.

The problem is he is liberal far beyond the Clintons. Beyond that of Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Bill Clinton's life experience actually closer to that of the black underclass than that of Obama. The bottom line is that Obama's brand of social activism is being lost in the race issue. If you equate American Negroes with liberalism and equate Obama as an American Negro you would totally miss the point of his liberalism.

While his skin is black, he is still M&M or worse Vanilla Ice. He wants you to think he has the cred, but regardless, he doesn't.