Jordan Richardson

     Recently, among other mainstream media drivel, the absurd question has arisen to whether or not Barack Obama is really black.  After banging my fist to my head a few times, I decided to write this post about the whole situation. It's silly, I know; why should we even give credence to the liberals hallucinations, but I thought there might be some red meat here to dig into. Here we go.

     First of all, let me point out the obvious, and please don't misconstrue this as racist, because it isn't. Obama is black or at least a dark brown. OK? Doesn't that make him black? "Oh no," the nut-head liberal press cry, "he's been raised where other put labels on him, so he should choose what race he is." How patently idiotic! Who really gets to choose what race they are? Latinos don't complain that they are really white or black, nor do white folks decide that they are really black. The closest example of this choosing to be white instead of black was the last time I took a look at Michael Jackson's face.

     Secondly, who cares? Who cares?! Why would anyone care whether you were black or white when you decided to run for office? For all of the claims that liberals have progressed in the area of racial sensitivity, they sure have dragged this issue in every local rag for weeks. I think the fact that anyone would even bring this up indicates who the real racists are.

     Finally, let me say that I don't care if you are rainbow colored or look like barney the freaking dinosaur, I am concerned with content and quality of you character. If you are a capable, patriotic American, with true conservatives values, I can look over your dermatologic oddities. Same principle applies with black and white candidates, performance matters rather than appearance.

     As for racial sensitivity, at least in the liberal press, we still have many more years until we can truly call ourselves tolerant.

Jordan Richardson is the founder of Conservative Mind.
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