Donald Trump is reportedly backing out of a scheduled September debate.That's according to Sam Stein, of The Bulwark and MSNBC, who wrote on the social media app X on Thursday night that the decision was made, "given the continued political chaos" surrounding Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. The st...
… Did you just suggest that Obama isn’t “black enough?”
He’s half African and was raised by his white mother and grandparents. He’s not really culturally ADOS (African descendant of slaves).
^ ^ How to say you’re racist without actually using the word racist.
I mean it’s very dangerous and touchy for white people, like myself, to weigh in on topics like these for sure.
I was just sharing what I’d heard from other BIPOC on what seemed a meaningful point … that, apparently, someone more in tune with slavery descendant culture would have gotten behind a woman of colour in a heart beat.
FWIW, as a white person, that makes total sense, and I’m not sure to whom it wouldn’t make sense and be the obvious move. And yet Obama seems to have been the one person out of step. Dunno how else to think about it.
As for racism, as see the point as only highlighting that such a culturally white person was likely always going to be the first black US president.
So, what you’d say if I’m literally just echoing what I’ve seen other BIPOC people say?
I’d say the same thing to them.