Clinton "is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."- Writes Toni Morisson, a black Nobel Prize winning author, in 1998 about Clinton during the heat of his scandal.
So, if Obama runs and is elected President he will actually be, according to Morrison, the second black President. This is too funny not to share. What do you think? What does this say about America? And more narrowly what does this say about black Americans? She compares Clinton to a black man by using negative stereotypes. So is this what a black American is: a fast-food loving, sax playing, poor, single parent who sleeps around on their spouse? I don't think so. This creates a dangerous self-fullfilling prophecy. If you attribute negative behavior and characteristics to yourself then you will live up to them. Furthermore, is black an attitude or a skin color?
Read the full article. It is long, wordy, and ridiculous. http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html
I think it's ridiculous to say that a person isn't "black" if they haven't gone through enough hardships in their life. What happened to "black" just being the colour of your skin? I think it's weird how there are so many categories now.
I think it is a miss representation of the word black. Because it could go in two different ways one being known as the color and the other the struggles as an individual. So if we go by the first he would be our first black president.
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Clinton "is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."- Writes Toni Morisson, a black Nobel Prize winning author, in 1998 about Clinton during the heat of his scandal.
So, if Obama runs and is elected President he will actually be, according to Morrison, the second black President. This is too funny not to share. What do you think?
What does this say about America? And more narrowly what does this say about black Americans? She compares Clinton to a black man by using negative stereotypes. So is this what a black American is: a fast-food loving, sax playing, poor, single parent who sleeps around on their spouse?
I don't think so. This creates a dangerous self-fullfilling prophecy. If you attribute negative behavior and characteristics to yourself then you will live up to them.
Furthermore, is black an attitude or a skin color?
Read the full article. It is long, wordy, and ridiculous.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html
I think it's ridiculous to say that a person isn't "black" if they haven't gone through enough hardships in their life. What happened to "black" just being the colour of your skin? I think it's weird how there are so many categories now.
I think it is a miss representation of the word black. Because it could go in two different ways one being known as the color and the other the struggles as an individual. So if we go by the first he would be our first black president.
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