Originally Posted by Robot 
Barack Obama and the black phoenix
By Okey Ndibe
Audacity could easily become the middle name of Senator Barack Hussein
Obama, the 47-year-old junior senator from the State of Illinois who is
on the verge of becoming America’s first black president, and one of
its youngest, most eloquent and intellectually vibrant. And audacity is
a word so beloved by Obama that he titled one of his bestselling books
The Audacity of Hope.
To get a picture of how dominant Obama has looked in this presidential
campaign, one could just invoke the words of an anonymous Republican
strategist: “If you believe in miracles, you believe John McCain is
going to win.”
That’s right. Most political pundits in the U.S. conjecture that it
would take a miracle for McCain, Obama’s Republican opponent, to pull
off an upset victory. They expect Obama, presidential candidate of the
Democratic Party, to trounce McCain and emerge undisputed winn...
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What I do not understand is this;- why do africans still call themselves "Black", Do you truely understand the first cause of the word "Black". or why the Africans are identified as Black people? And now, to the reason I am responding. Is Barack Obama Black? or An African American... I think, to do him a fare justice, we should stop labeling him as a Black man- because he isn't. After all his mother is from Kansas city, an American, and his father from Kenyan, an African.. Is it alright then to just call him a Black man? No, I think it is erronous to keep doing so... I hope we get it... Because the idea is, that as a Black man, you are not fit to do any thing intelligent. And we do not need to prove otherwise... We as humans and Africans are just good enough and just brilliant or intelligent... as any human on the face of the earth...
We have to choose the words that is appropriate in labeling us... not borrowing the words that was specifically conjured to do damage- and still continue to use it as if we are blind and do not understand...
I think calling Barack Obama a Black man is errounous.. He is not Black, Please and niether are you Mr.Okay Ndibe... Why call yourself a black man when you are an African..
How can we truely understand the implication of calling oneself a Black person, why should we revert to it constantly even when the Americans are trying to recognize the fact that, Africans are Africans and not just Black people... I find it very offensive for even the educated ones to keep referring to the word Black as to any africans or the decendants of africans... It is a wrong choice of words- if in deed you understand the meaning of first cause...