ALL over the world these words are echoed through the streets with jubilation: ‘Finally America’s first black president’. But, never do these people, or anyone for that matter, take a step back to contemplate what is plainly there to see, Barak Obama is not black, but clearly of mixed origin.
So, America’s first ‘black’ president? Not! How about America’s, or in fact the western world’s, first mixed-race president? Mixed-race people are rarely acknowledged, and unless they make a conscious decision to part with either black or white, mostly feel, and are treated as, the ‘unwanted stepchild’.One can however not only blame this kidnapped ethnic pride on the black followers of Obama, because the President himself proclaims that he is black. Instead, he should use as an example another pioneering and legendary mixed-race personality, Tiger Woods, who said in an interview: ‘I refuse to be restricted by calling myself black, I am of a minority group. If I were to refer to myself as being black, I would disregard, and disrespect my mother, who is a part of me, and who is not black’. By referring to himself as a minority group, Obama would at least represent all previously disadvantaged groups. Is he completely ignoring his white mother and grandparents, who raised him, while all the recognition is placed unconditionally at the feet of his Kenyan father, who was mostly absent throughout his life.I am mixed race and proudly so. However, I live in a country where I have always been, and am increasingly still not recognised or given the time of day. I am sad to say that I am previously and presently disadvantaged.With this in mind it would be great Mr President, to be proud of one of our own, as this is such a rarity.Mixed Minority Via e-mailNote: Name and address provided – Ed
