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To: epicure who wrote (51072)	2/29/2008 9:58:39 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543919

<<<Well, his skin is black. We normally say people are black when they are, indeed, black. Mixed race is another term- but the man isn't going to convince anyone he's white by saying "Hey, I choose to be white now." Black isn't a state of mind- it's generally considered to be a color. >>> Actually his skin is more brown than black. His skin color is somewhere in between black and white, but so also are many Southeast Asians and Arabs from the Middle East. A lot of people think Obama is white. What do you think Joe Biden really meant when he said Barack was clean and articulate. Don't get me wrong. I do not think Joe Biden is in anyway a racist. In the same way, I don't think Bill Clinton is a racist. In many ways he is the first black President. In many ways he can do a lot more for black folks than Barack (in the same way that only Richard Nixon could find an opening into China). But what was he doing comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson. I might have digressed a little, but what I am trying to say is that black is indeed just a state of mind. It has no meaning in terms of biology, genetics, or logic. But because of this color thing, people see in Barack what they want to or are conditioned to see. Barack I have to admit, has played this just right. So far.