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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]POTUS is black and white, not just black.[/quote]

The rationale of racists who just can't believe a black man is POTUS. He identifies as black and will go down in the history books as the first black president. Get over it. [/quote]

He probably would not have become POTUS if not for his unique family and upbringing, including the fact that he is white.[/quote]

You have no way of knowing that and to presume otherwise is idiocy. BUT, it's good to know that white people now embrace biracial folks as white. Look how far we've come![/quote]

Puhleese. You know he benefited from being biracial. And he is the type of black whites love because he is the child of a black African, not the child of a black African American.[/quote]Different poster here. Yes, I think that during the election it was Michelle who seemed threatening to some voters because she's homegrown and that[b] a certain kind of voter[/b] was more comfortable with him because his father was not homegrown. [/quote]

No-she was/is regarded as a regular American from a middle class fine Chicago area family.  Smart person and smart siblings from a nice family.  He is homegrown [except for living in Singapore].  At age 10 he went to live with his grandparents in Hawaii which last time I checked was a state not another country.[/quote]I don't think you saw the qualification in my statement "a certain kind of voter" but maybe I wasn't as articulate as I should have been.  Personally I agree with you on everything you say in terms of my perception of them. But I think there are people out there whom, as the pp noted, are more comfortable with African immigrants than with Black Americans and that Obama had a certain appeal for them because of that.  He was not seen as a stereotypical angry Black American man like Al Sharpton.  However, during the election, Michelle got characterized by opponents as a stereotypical angry Black woman because of her senior (I think) thesis and her statement that she had never been proud of her country until now.

It's all bullshit of course but I think this is how it played out for those people who feel more comfortable with black immigrants than for native born blacks.  It was impossible to shoehorn Obama into that stereotype of the Angry Black Man whereas Michelle could be shoehorned into the stereotype of the Angry Black Woman.

Again, please be aware that I am commenting on how I think some people saw them.  I don't see them that way myself.[/quote]

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