This is one of the great things about HA.

manwithblackhat on January 23, 2009 at 7:33 AM

Actually, a majority of presidents have been left-handed, at least accounting for the last 80 years or so when parents stopped trying to force handedness on their children.

In fact, I think I’ve read that southpaws tend to be smarter and more high-achieving in general than right-handers, at least in proportion to their numbers in the general population. No surprise that Michelle is among them. ;)

The new OBAMA public policy is “Stick It To Whitey”.

HE IS JUST AS WHITE AS HE IS BLACK PEOPLE!

The first vid, MM is Left-handed. Ok, why point this out? LOL!!!

Yakko77 on January 23, 2009 at 3:57 AM

Hey, I saw Obama sign something, and HE’S left-handed. What can this mean?

Michelle mentioned it’s rampant on college campuses, but it’s almost as bad at elementary schools. I’m in the midst of a little bicker fest with my son’s school administration. Apparently they think it’s ok to have an all day cake party on hussein’s inauguration day and keep the party running all week long. My son’s teacher claims the school is following district policy in the study of inaugurations. She has yet to answer my question if they would have given the same celebratory vitriol to a McCain win, or if they did the same for Bush four years ago.

It’s sick.

It’s time we quit dancing around the topic with words like “reverse-racism.” “Reverse-racism” sounds like it’s payback for something we did, like maybe there is a reasonable reason for it. But every racist has “reasonable reasons” for their racism, just ask them.

This is just racism, it’s just bigotry, pure and simple. It needs to be addressed as such.

Yes ma’am, you’re half African-American and half American of African decent.

Tony737 on January 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM

I didn’t see this earlier. Knowing you, you have to be just pulling my leg. Please tell me you are.

I’ve always thought that African-Americans identify Obama as such because he’s a Democrat. If he were a Republican they’d hate him. He’d be White then, and just another “Uncle Tom”. Were they proud about Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice? No! They were called such racial slurs as, “Aunt Jemima, and House N****”, just to name a few. Not a lot of pride there, but if they’d been Democrats….I’m just sayin’

Absolutely true, as it is of most “protected class” groups. Witness how women on the left behaved toward Sarah Palin. I dare say their viciousness far surpassed that of the male politicians and “journalists” on the left side of the aisle. Just one episode of “The View” or Campbell Brown’s show ought to be enough to drive that point home. These shrews think Gov. Palin is The Most Dangerous Woman in the World. Their hyperbole only lends credence to the stereotype that all women are hysterical, overly emotional drama queens and further supports what I’ve always believed, which is that the traditional feminist movement and its modern day followers have done more to regress the place of women in America than ANYTHING men or us girls on the right ever have. As far as I’m concerned, Gov. Palin represents precisely what I thought we were supposed to be striving for all of these years: She is a successful career woman and mother with a solid marriage to a man she can count on to take an equal role in running the household and raising their children. She made that CHOICE because it was available to her. I thought the left was all about CHOICE? I suppose that’s true only when one chooses what THEY think is the correct path.

Of course, getting obama to throw him under the bus would be nice. But don’t count on it.

Really, you answered your own question. The fact that he is considered black by the entire world is what makes him black. Race might have some genetic components to it, but racial categories are socially constructed. They are decided by a majority vote in a way. Though you might argue that self identification plays an important role too. Saying that you can’t be black if you have white ancestors is it’s own kind of “one drop rule,” and would probably disqualify a good chunk of the current African American population from self identifying as such. Colin Powell, for example, has Scottish and Irish ancestors, yet no one blinked when he was called the first black secretary of state. You can only really call identifying Obama as black “racist” if you argue that ALL racial categories are inherently racist. Which, I think, would probably make everyone in the world racist.

justfinethanks on January 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM

Excellent post.

MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK HUMAN

Since Barry is supposedly so post-racial?