Reply #25: Hawaii, Kansas and Indonesia are hardly Ghetto... not to invalidate what you say though [View All]

[crankychatter]

Culturally, Obama is a White guy that adopted AA culture as an adult... or near adult.

Bush sniffed coke too. And you know as well as I do that Bill "slippery as a boiled peanut" Clinton, INHALED.

Whatever it was like for Obama, I'm quite sure he wasn't stuck in the middle of gang turf.

I've done some ghetto living. Quite a lot. I'm there right now. It's hard for a family of mixed culture and racial heritage. It's hard for a kid. I know a lot of Black folks that believe a lighter skinned Black person is haughty... thinks more highly of themselves than they ought to. The belief is they experience more social popularity and opportunity... more acceptance in white society. More desirability from the opposite sex. I've known many that have been abused by extended family... emotionally and physically... Called names and insulted "You dance like a White Girl"... that sort of thing.

Obama didn't have to endure that coming up. I'm going to have to read his book eventually. Just as soon as I find my grampa glasses and get an extra ten bucks.

:-)