rox63
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Thu May-29-08 09:09 AM
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31. Obama did not come out of a ghetto, but he did grow up as the "other" |
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The places where Obama grew up did not have many black people. As multi-cultural as Hawaii is, there aren't many black folks there. Most of Hawaii's multi-cultural society comes from Asia-Pacific nations. Not many black folks in Indonesia or Kansas either. So he was "different", or the "other", in all of the places where he grew up. Additionally, he was mostly raised by white people. So while he looked black to other people, he did not have the grounding and support of the black community that many other AA kids would have had. So in that way, he was also different from most other black people.
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