Obama Wins Olympic 100 metres

[JDH1]

Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama isn't a politician, he's a 100 metre runner - and he wins gold at the olympic games. Now it's pretty rare for a white man to win a top class 100 metre race - practically unheard of. In fact I don't believe you'll find one in the top 200 sprinters of all time. So would it be newsworthy (mentioned even) that Obama (a white man) by virtue of having a white mother, had performed the feat?

My guess is that it would not. Nobody would even perceive that a white man had won the race. So here's the thing - what does that say about our attitude to race in these enightened times...when any amount of 'non white' lineage immediately defines someone as black?

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Come again?

[ewenm]

I think he's asking why Obama is described as black when he's half-white, half-black and would he ever be described as white?. Unfortunately someone else already asked that: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[BJG1]

Black people win 100m races because they are physically stronger, so surely it follows suit that a half cast would benefit from some of this? Hence it wouldn't be all that notable if he won a 100m sprint, and certainly less notable than a white person winning.

[Simpo Two]

Obama is half Kenyan - quite a different physiology from negroes. So if anything, he'd be better at marathons than sprints.

[BoRED S2upid]

Thats complete rubbish no white man in the top 200 sprinters of all time.

[Simpo Two]

BoRED S2upid said:

Thats complete rubbish no white man in the top 200 sprinters of all time.

I think he meant 200m

Allan Wells?

[Mc Lovin]

what is this?

[cougargirl]

Simpo Two said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Thats complete rubbish no white man in the top 200 sprinters of all time.

I think he meant 200m

Allan Wells?

Is he still alive?

[ewenm]

Mc Lovin said:

what is this?

Pistonheads.

HTH.

[Doobs]

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

[BoRED S2upid]

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

Thats helped a lot. So now hes light green. FFS

[f13ldy]

I think the whole point they are making is that 50/60 years ago Blacks and mixed raced people were considered lower class citizens.

Now a man who is of mixed race has the most important job in the US.

So he gets all the brains of the honkys and all the following of the darkies.

Winning combination.

[cougargirl]

BoRED S2upid said:

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

Thats helped a lot. So now hes light green. FFS

[Pickled Piper]

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

Very well put.



pp

[JDH1]

BoRED S2upid said:

Thats complete rubbish no white man in the top 200 sprinters of all time.

Not that it matters for my point, buy no white athlete has ever beat 10 seconds for 100 metres. The top 200 times are all by non-white athletes.

To go back to the original point, isn't the media and public furor (given Obamas mixed parentage,) intrinsically racist? What it demonstrates is that white can beget black, but black can never beget white.

[Doobs]

BoRED S2upid said:

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

Thats helped a lot. So now hes light green. FFS

My point was you would still call it green, even if it light green. I can't see how it is so surprising to people that someone who has a white parent, but still looks black gets called black. It's even more surprising that people are shocked that the media is making so much out of the fact he's the first black president.

[filski666]

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

so if it was tins of green paint that were enslaved, made to work in the cotton fields and treated abysmally - how did all the African genes get to America/Caribbean ?

[Doobs]

filski666 said:

Doobs said:

To try and help you visualise how people view colour - if you had a tin of white paint and a tin of green paint and put half and half in a bowl, you'd end up with a bowl of "light green" paint - not "half green paint" or "half white paint". It's still fking green!

The thing is in America white tins of paint weren't enslaved, only the green ones. So in a country that has it's history it is significant when the first green tin of paint (even if it's just light green) takes the helm. Is it that surprising???

so if it was tins of green paint that were enslaved, made to work in the cotton fields and treated abysmally - how did all the African genes get to America/Caribbean ?

Thomas Cook - fk all leg room apparently

[f13ldy]

filski666 said:

so if it was tins of green paint that were enslaved, made to work in the cotton fields and treated abysmally - how did all the African genes get to America/Caribbean ?

The slave trade per chance?

White men buy black men to do hard work on boats while they stand about drink rum and touch each other up.

Get to destination, sell black men.