Obama Impersonator Misfires At GOP Forum

A Barack Obama impersonator was ushered off the stage at a GOP forum after he mocked Republican presidential hopefuls and joked about President Barack Obama's biracial roots to a room full of conservative activists.

Let's Stop Being Angry At Biracial People

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By: John McWhorter

He was really funny. I seem to recall that he was especially good at climbing things. He had a thing about The Six Million Dollar Man, as many 8-year-old boys did in the mid-1970s. He was also what was then called hyperactive, come to think of it.

But in terms of how we were to process my schoolmate, whom I'll call Troy, the most important and interesting thing was supposed to be that he was -- oh, dear -- mixed.

The "mixed" kid -- usually with a white mother and black father -- was thought of as a bit of a "situation" back then. The idea was that when he was around 12, he was going to have to realize that he was "really" black. CONTINUE....

Mad the President Isn't Identified as Biracial? Get Over It

By: Gregory P. Kane

A word of advice to those white people who resent President Obama being called black: Please get over it!

The latest whiner was a letter writer to the Baltimore Sun. (Make that what’s left of the Baltimore Sun; owner Smilin’ Sam Zell and Tribune Company mismanagers continue to run what was once a great newspaper into the ground.) As a white American, she wrote, she resented the constant reference to Obama as black. He’s “biracial,” she insisted, with a white mommy and those white grandparents who lived out in Kansas.

I rolled my eyes and chuckled as I read the woman’s whimpering screed. “Now, this character knows that if Obama were an ax murderer and not president of the United States, he couldn’t be black enough for her,” I said to myself, then added, “So, the one-drop rule has finally come back to bite white folks in the butt, has it?” And it has.

Mad the President Isn't Identified as Biracial? Get Over It....