A friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent you an article: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Calling Obama black is an insult to his mother
Monday, 9 June 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-calling-obama-black-is-an-insult-to-his-mother-842808.html Barack Obama is not black. He is the first mixed-race politician ever to get this far in the onerous and arduously testing American electoral process. In the US, under an over-arching American patriotism, separate ethnic categories are clearly labelled and race ghettoes (real or imagined) are commonplace. In such a severely organised society, Obama's achievements are all the more astounding since he fits neatly nowhere. HOWDY BOSCO AND GOANET. WOULD LOVE GOANETTERS TO READ YASMIN'S ANALYSIS ABOUT THE SHADES OF BLACK AND WHITE. SKIN COLOUR IS QUITE AN ISSUE ONCE AGAIN; OBAMA IS CALLED KINDA 'ISLAMIC', KINDA OSAMA. SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE WATCHED THE PANORAMA PROGRAMME RE. SKIN COLOUR AND PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS, ETC. I THINK HE'S KINDA CUTE. MESTIZOS (WE HAVE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN IN OZ) ARE LIKE HYBRID ORCHIDS I THINK. LONG LIVE DIVERSITY. THANKS, RUBY GOES
