Barack Obama Needs to Be Careful of Liberal Tendencies

As a multi-racial AMERICAN I consider myself to be just that. AMERICAN. I realize that some % of my ancestry is represented by a man or woman who was wronged and brought to this country against their will, however I thank GOD and that ancestor everyday for the struggle they endured so that I might be born here in this great country as an American citizen. I am equally grateful to the 100,000 of WHITE Americans that fought and died for the freedoms of the African people. Everyone seems to be so quick to want to point the finger of blame and at WHO??? White people? My friends how do you know which white people to be angry with?? Can you readily tell who's ancestors died to free slaves?? I can't. I notice you want people to see all parts of you and all parts of your son - I'm sorry but I just don't feel I need that sort of validation about me as a person from strangers. People who glance at me and see me as Black, or Asian, or White ~ the only way that their assessment/opinion... the only way that WHAT THEY SEE can ever become a part of my reality is if I choose to see myself through their eyes. But I don't. I know who I am, not because I have traced every ancestors line... No because I am American, my parents are American, this is me. If I did trace each ancestor; what to do if I find many different men and women there... Am I supposed to let each of these distant people I will never meet, never know, never understand... I'm to take my feelings of worth and identity from them?? So what happens if 1 woman in my line was an African slave, and if 1 man from my line was an African Slave Trader (the man who took that woman from her family and sold her), and 1 man in my line was a white slave owner, and yet another man in my line was a white man American that fought and died so that my enslaved ancestors would know freedom. Am I to spend the rest of my days hating myself, and loving myself, and blaming myself, and feeling guilt and pride... Won't I experience all those feelings if I never know my past and just move forward from today - as a proud American who refuses to see myself as less than every other mans equal... not because anyone "gave" me this and certainly not because some self important liberals want to credit themselves with my good fortune and that of my people... But just because we were all equally blessed to be born in this country where we can create whatever success and reality we decide for ourselves.

I may be saying this wrong? Maybe no one will understand? I don't care how anyone sees me, because I am secure in myself. People judge white men as oppressors (I know this because am so ashamed each time I hear men and women that are supposed to be on some deeper level "my people" making the same ruthless and cruel generalizations of White Mans souls and anoint themselves judge and jury in deciding their worth) People judge... it's in our nature - none of us are innocent

Chandra of CA 11:37PM October 14, 2008

Sorry Mary, but being bi-racial is, in fact, a step-down from being black. Please refer to the fifth sentence in this article --

"The best and most honorable of liberal causes—civil rights for African-Americans..."

See? One can only infer that the rights off any other groups are less honorable, perhaps in degrees. It is Obama's black-ness that grants him his elevated status; if not for that, he would simply be another run-of-the-mill Liberal. So be proud of the 50% you've got.

chronic.individuality of SC 3:05PM October 14, 2008