Oh! I just pmed someone and told him that I didn't intend to post to a thread about race for a long time, unless I was providing demographical information and/or cultural analysis of a song or children's rhyme.

However, Irene, I feel compelled to respond to your statement that "The whites see him {Obama} as black and the blacks see the white in him."

First of all, Irene, you are speaking in broad generalities.

And, frankly, I'm not sure what you mean by "the Blacks see the white in him".

If you mean that I {as a Black person} and other Black people in the USA don't consider Barack Obama to be "really Black" because he had a White mother, and/or was raised by his White grandparents in a community that has few Black people, I have to strongly disagree with you. Imo, both of your statements were failed primary strategies that were put out by the Clintons.

Few people in the USA who have been really following Barack Obama's campaign since Iowa and North Carolina would consider either of these statements as being the least bit credible.