Wait….why is Kamala’s “BLACKNESS” questioned and OBAMA got a pass?

[Geordi]

Back then only white people did the birther stuff, then they figured out how to get black people to do it to each other too. This must be like what they did in Africa to get slaves.

 

[jadillac]

Why can’t Obama claim he’s white but Kamala can claim she’s Asian?

I mean, do you understand the racial history of America? Or were you just born yesterday?

 

[parallax]

1. Obama had his Black wife and Black kids front and center.
2. MAGA wasn’t really a thing.
3. The whole “birther” thing was kind of similar.

Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories - Wikipedia

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maga wasnt, but the tea party was running rampant

 

[LV Koopa]

were you in a coma? Obama's first term was nothing but claims ranging from he was born in Kenya to being some lab grown alien.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

This gotta be the most retarded thread of this cycle

Obama was called everything from an Arab to an alien, literally.

 

[King Harlem]

Because Black people weren't doing this dumb shyt back then.
Reparations was an excuse to divide us and social media just continued the divide.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Ain’t no way op American with this dumb ass thread.

Obama Blackness and citizenship was always in question.

Op a fukking idiot.

 

[Black Panther]

How many threads are we gonna make on this topic?

The squabble over Kamala not being "Black " or "Black enough" is just a distraction. It's either Kamala or Trump. A or B. If it's not Kamala, then it's Trump. Trump is a significantly worse option than Kamala for Black people. This is clearly the case, and if you disagree I'm pretty sure you're a Trump supporter.

There is no third option. There is no #BothSides to whether we can get these insane cacs (and one c00n) off the Supreme Court, stop Project 2025, or put Trump under the jail.

If you disagree, you're not being serious.

The point is that Kamala's race is irrelevant and a distraction from talking about actual issues and policies.

She has never claimed to be FBA/ADOS, and Black Americans don't have a monopoly on Black identity. Black identity is not restricted to the US. She is just as "Black" as The Rock or Barack Obama.

Whether or not Kamala (or Obama for that matter) is FBA is irrelevant to begin with, because one does not need to be FBA/ADOS to be considered "Black".

She's multiracial. She identifies as a Black woman just as often as she identifies as an Indian woman...because she's both. And both are valid.

 

[ORDER_66]

Hey OP

 

[CodeKansas]

Obama didn't really get a pass. Initially people were questioning his blackness. Most black people didn't support him when he first started running.

That's what his wife was for.

 

[Gold]

Threads like this make me wonder if we live in the same America....



Ya'll gotta stop making threads like this

 

[MacNCheese]

Maybe it's because I was a kid when he was elected, but I never heard anyone question Barack's blackness. There was the birther thing later on but that was only white people who did that. And there were a few instances of people implying he was an arab Muslim ( like when Hilary's camp put out that photo of him in a turban) but that again was white people and that never really caught any traction.

Most black people didn't support him at first, but that was more because people assumed a black man had no chance of winning, not because they didn't think he was black.

Frankly, the difference between then and now is that if the opposition or a public figure said something like that back in the day, it would've just made them look dumb. People have less shame these days + political/cultural overton window is in a completely different place now.

 

[3rdWorld]

Obama got his respect and was never bothered again after it was revealed he was hanging out with anticac reverend Wright..

 

[Zero]

OP can't be older than 15

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Obama didn’t get a so called pass and he knew how to talk, so that helped.

You get drunk aunt vibes from Kamala out the gate and wonder if someone a bit more responsible is coming with her.