OBAMA IS KENYAN-AMERICAN, NOT AFRICAN-AMERICAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITER CARNELL AT THE ATLANTA POST BY 2 1/2 YEARS!

ATLANTA POST - VIA GATEWAY:

[GATEWAY:] ... what upsets Carnell is the fact that Obama doesn’t have any real African American experience in his life. She feels that his Kenyan father does not qualify the president as a proper African American. Obama was brought up too white to qualify she claims.

Born to a white mother and a Kenyan father, young Obama’s world view was fashioned in Indonesia and Hawaii through the prism of his mother. There is nothing unseemly about Obama’s upbringing, but it does belie the difficulty inherent in labeling President Obama as African-American.

Even if President Obama’s Kenyan father had been in his life, that wouldn’t have been enough to link Obama to an African-American experience which is uniquely different from that of Africans in the great vastness of the Diaspora. And to say that Obama is connected to the African-American experience by virtue of his Kenyan father is alarmingly simplistic.

Carnell wraps up with one of those paragraphs that would cause outrage if someone with differently hued skin were to have written it.

Our expectation was that Obama would display some of the steeliness so overtly recognizable in the African American persona. But President Obama’s perspective is international, not African American. It is time that the African-American community stops looking for its reflection in President Obama. He may be the first black President, but he’s certainly not the first African-American President.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS MARCH 2008 - YUP, 2008, BEFORE THE PRIMARIES WERE REALLY OVER - AND WHILE THERE WAS TIME FOR DEMOCRATS - INCLUDING BLACK DEMOCRATS - TO DO SOMETHING:

Barack was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. He struggled with his identity until his conversion by Jeremiah Wright. Some say Wright didn't convert him to Christianity, but actually made Barack an African-American. The "Black Liberation Theology" practiced at Obama's church would seem to back this up.

Barack's greatest accomplishment has been his ability to make African-Americans think he's one of them - even though he is NOT the descendant of slaves, even though his ancestors were NEVER victims of segregation or Jim Crow, and even though his parents NEVER took part in the Civil Rights Movement.

He is in the process of fooling white Americans about more than his identity; he is fooling many about his political ideology.

He is running as a uniter and a doer, even though he is the most liberal Senator currently serving, and one who has NOTHING top show for his entire term to date: HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING.

And despite the fact that he has UNITED nothing and no one.

The core of Barack's identity really is this: he is a sly sweet-talking LIAR and a thoroughly corrupt Chicago politician, who is a member of a racist church, who is also a hard-core leftist who has already begun to list the taxes he will increase.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE ARE USUALLY WAY WAY AHEAD OF THE PACK.

AND UNAFRAID TO BLUNTLY SPEAK THE TRUTH.

SPREAD THE WORD.