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To: Brumar89 who wrote (242896)	3/21/2008 2:13:30 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

I can guess that he was for some reason desparately obsessed with fitting into the "black community". So he sought out what he could ignorantly figure was the most authentic black voice he could find or at least a voice that talked the most emphatically about blackness. So that person could tell him who he is and supply him an identity. If thats the case he has a serious self-image problem and almost certainly isn't comfortable in his own skin. Obama first came to Trinity United, by his own account, because it would help his work as a community activist. We know he was struggling with his racial identity as he wrote a memoir when he was 34 informing us of that fact. I don't think Obama was at all ignorant; after all, he was in his twenties and had graduated Harvard Law. He was searching for authenticity and found it on offer at Trinity United. Compare him to Tiger Woods, who is also half black, but who doesn't seem obsessed with his blackness. Tiger Woods has chosen a multiracial identity. He answers "Cablinasian" when asked his race. But Tiger had something in his life that Obama conspicuously lacked: a close and loving relationship with his black father. I suspect this has made Tiger more comfortable in his own skin, as well as choosing a field that has objective colorblind scoring. The golf ball does not care if the golfer is black or white. You just need a level enough playing field so that the good black player is not expelled on a pretext.