Quote:He grew up in Hawaii.  Have you ever been there?  I have and I can tell you that it most certainly is not like the mainland at all.  It's almost like being in a foreign country.  I've been in 49 of our 50 states as well as Puerto Rico.  Hawaii may be one of our states, but it certainly is not "main stream USA".

 

What Malabar Jag said is true.  His only "black heritage" is from his father who was/is from Nigeria.  His mother is white.  He is not a descendant of slaves in this country.

 

Nowhere in Malabar Jag's post did he mention anything about President Obama's birth certificate.

 

There's a strong resentment by natives of the fact that Hawaii is actually part of the US.  Hawaii is nothing like the other 49 states unless you only use TV for your education on the subject.  Hawaii 5.0 looks awfully American.  Unfortunately, where Obama was raised and educated in Hawaii, embracing the American culture was hardly the standard.  In  fact, natives there have always looked at the US as an occupying colonial force.  

 

Malabar is right.  Obama's black heritage has nothing to do with the "slavery culture" of most African Americans in the US.  His bloodline doesn't tie back to slavery in any way, and with a white mother, he has always been challenged by some activists because he's not "black enough."   

 

Birth certificates are irrelevant.

 

Quote:It's not Nebraska, but it is America. I know a couple of Navy brats who grew up there and are as red-blooded as any Kansas farmer. It feels like a foreign country because of how tiny and remote it is and how disconnected from everything it feels, but it's still very much an American state full of people with the same political ideologies as you or I.

 

Navy brats who grew up in Hawaii were more than likely not immersed in the local culture, and if you actually knew anything about Hawaii, you'd recognize how ignorant it is to say the only reason it feels like a foreign nation is because it's remote and disconnected.  Alaska is remote and disconnected from the US mainland.  It feels pretty American just the same. 

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