President-Elect Barack Obama: Our Journey From Disbelief to Hope to the White House

LOL (NOBAMA)...just sad and pitiful

When did this historical event occur? The event where one would be recognised/acknowledged as biracial? Don't you still live in the time where no matter what, one drop, two drops of white blood mixed with black, still makes you black...hands down.

American needs to focus on the important things. Why does a person have to wear their cultures on their sleeves? I'M BLACK! I'M WHITE! I'M YELLOW! Sooo WHAT!! Stop using labels when they best suit your needs (black, white, biracial). The man is just a man…like you…like me...of one race...the human race (when I last checked...no other race has been discovered). Don't be sadden or feel weakened by his intelligence, sincerity and purity. I know it's scary because of the way you were raised and taught. It didn't help to have that sad example in the white house for the past 8 horrible years either. Just pray, hope (whatever you do to that gives you faith) that your new president, Mr. Obama, does the best job he can economically, socially, environmentally and universally...don't worry, you'll benefit. If his complexion or his culture bothers you that much, picture him in whatever shade suites you...if it will make you sleep better at night (since you have nothing else better to do). We are in trouble socially and economically and Americans voted for someone whom they believe and hope shall assist in alleviating some of this mess. QUIT SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF!!!

Does color really matter?

I do not belittle the respect I have for President-elect Obama.

The thing that bothers me is that here is a 44 year old man who ran his campaign as an "African-American". No one denys that his father is African. My problem is that throughout the entire campaign Senator Obama never once said I am of African-Causian hertiage. It is like he wishes to hold onto his African roots while at the same time dening that he even has a trace of white in him. I simply say forshame on you President-elect Obama.

sarah Palin

Sarah Palin gives all working mothers, soccer moms, baseball moms,and all other mothers a black eye with her not so funny jokes and her lipstick jokes, she needs to get a life.

NOBAMA

I wish they would stop saying: First black president. he is not black but biracial! He just lost his WHite grandma! REALLY COME ON! He was raised by his WHITE MOTHER and SIBLINGS! COME ON !!!!!!!

VOTE SARAH PALIN 2012

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My Grandma said star 02.01.01

Love is the glue that holds together everything in the World.

A light heart carries you through all the hard times.

OBAMA IS PRES!!! YES

THANK YOU FOR HELPING GET OBAMA PRESIDENT YOU THE BOMB

sarah of CA

I LOVE YOU SARAH!!!! THANKS FOR HELPING OBAMA TO GET ELECTED!!!! LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!!

R.L. Schaefer of CA : BITTER IN DEFEAT!!!

You show your true bitter colors everyday, I like discovering all of your fears. You are one of the reasons this country is in the condition it is now. Whatever happened to brotherly love? It never existed with your type, you thought that a Black Man would never become President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

Yes, he's black. (And that's not why we voted for him.)

Tony, racism in America is and has been when people make judgments and assumptions. about a person based on his/her skin color. Jim Crow laws would've treated Barack Obama as black, and if he'd been living in the segregated south, he'd have been expected to use "colored" facilities. Many African-Americans have mixed heritage... see all of Thomas Jefferson's black descendants.

If you go to scary white supremacist sites, as I did by accident the other day while looking for a photo of Obama and his mom, you'll find he is the black man they fear and hate... even more so because his father married a white woman, which they still see as a threat.

Luckily, folks like that and like my Baltimore grandfather who could very well have been one of the people being nasty to Terry Edmonds are a fringe, now, as opposed to the majority.

I still wonder. It took a serious, serious economic crisis, an unpopular lame duck president and McCain's VP choice to tip the majority towards Obama. But I think that reluctance to embrace Obama really wasn't because he was black, but because of his lack of experience, and because most Americans are naturally cynical of people who speak of hope and change... yeah, RIGHT, we say, you're still a politician!

But the fact that we subjected Obama to the same cynicism is probably a good sign.

Folks like me, the whites who grew up with MLK as a hero, are happy and were profoundly moved by the symbolic nature of an African-American president... we can cry and feel proud of that.

But that's not why we voted for him. Had I been old enough, I probably wouldn't have voted for Jesse Jackson when he ran, because he's a good man but he's not really presidential material, IMO. With Obama, we just wanted a competent and INTELLIGENT president, and we thought he looked like an idea-driven, pragmatic and responsible person with the ability to handle the serious problems America's facing and the diplomatic skills needed to restore our standing in the world. The fact that he's black isn't why we voted for him; kicking over racial barriers is just a happy side effect.

And that's as it should be.