(11-06-2024, 11:34 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(11-06-2024, 11:13 AM)mikesez Wrote: Well a white person wouldn't be biracial, but yes. No one calls it "white identity" but any European cultural expression could qualify.  Remember that there are usually a handful of white folks at your HBCUs and such.  Nothing is homogeneous.
If you find this conversation awkward, maybe your candidate shouldn't have started it.

I don’t find the conversation awkward at all. The point I’m making is claiming a racial identity for advantage is racist in itself. Could a white person say they are proud of their European heritage and not be pilloried by the same people who claim racial identity is important? 

Take Obama. How much was his white heritage celebrated? It wasn’t. The racial identity people, including Obama, only focused on his African father who abandoned him as a child. His white mother who raised him and inculcated into him his liberal values was largely ignored. That is true racism.

Everyone claims a racial identity.  You say that she claimed it "as an advantage." Here you claim to know her heart.  She is what she is.  She's supposed to tell us what she is. 

To your second point, very little was said about Obama's father. The book written about him makes it clear that his father was not very influential and some of his influence was bad.

Obama simply identified as black once he came to the mainland.  His choice.  He's actually a third culture kid who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, but he decided to emphasize the black after that.  No one questioned him about what his racial identity really was at the time, why he didn't identify equally as white, because we were a nicer country back then, with nicer candidates.  We used to care about graces and virtues.  Wasn't long ago.  But it's far away now.  You know this.  You know Trump's meanness and classlessness is new, but you embrace it and defend it.

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