Demagogue – a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotion, passions, and prejudices of the people.

-  Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edition

 

“The racial and ethnic makeup of the country has changed since 1977, giving rise to the question of whether those standards still reflected the diversity of the country's present population. In response to this criticism…in October 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced the revised standards for federal data on race and ethnicity...to allow respondents to select one or more races when they self-identify. With the OMB's approval, the Census 2000 questionnaires also include a sixth racial category: Some Other Race.” -  Excerpted from a report of the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, April 12, 2000.

“Long before he became Barack Obama – junior senator from Illinois and presidential candidate – he was just Barry, the good-natured, unassuming kid.”

- Lead paragraph in “Punahou left lasting impression on Obama” by B.J. Reyes, Honolulu Star Bulletin, February 8, 2007.

 

            If the Mass Miscommunications Media (MMM) would cover the oratory that “Barack Obama” disgorges before audiences consisting entirely of persons of black and brown skin color, he would be run out of public office. [I place “Barack Obama” in quotation marks because at this time I have been unable to ascertain his true or legal name.] Instead, the public is treated only to his hype before audiences of mixed color: “This country is ready for a new direction. We need to take this country forward into a new direction. The people of this country want change.  They are ready for change. I am in this campaign to bring change…” etc . etc. etc., blah blah blah, yada, yada, yada.

            There is a change, however, in Obama’s oratory when the audience consists entirely of persons of dark skin color and the only coverage is by the so-called “black press.” On those occasions, identifying himself as entirely “black,” he disgorges a rant in which he excoriates whites for discrimination and proclaims that but for courageous “blacks” fighting against discrimination he would never have been able to gain election to the Illinois State Legislature and the U.S. Congress, and he would not be able to mount a campaign to become “the first African-American president of the United States of America.”

            Among the numerous problems with that rant of Obama’s are these:

            * He is the offspring of mixed parentage, a black-skinned Kenyan and a white-skinned American of English/Irish descent.

            * His skin color, like that of the majority of persons called “black,” is brown, and not very dark brown; and his facial features, other than color, are more European caucasian than they are African.

            * Since “African-American” is a geographical term or at best a nationality term rather than a designation of “race” (many white persons born in Africa live in the U.S.), the only way he could be construed as an “African-American” would occur if he held dual residency and citizenship in an African country, and he holds neither. Even if one wants to take the preposterous, unsupportable position that “African-American” is a designation of “race,” it is nevertheless impossible for Obama to be construed as African-American because, in fact, he is a mixture of white and black, he was raised entirely by his white mother Ann Durham and white maternal grandparents, Stanley Durham (a salesman) and his wife Madelyn Lee Payne (a bank vice president), and everything he is today he owes to white people.

The upbringing of Barry “Obama”

            The politician who calls himself “Barack Obama” was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. [At this writing I was unable to obtain a birth certificate for him, and so I do not know what he was named at birth.] His white mother and white maternal grandparents were of English/Irish descent ranging back several hundred years. His father, Barack Obama, was a black-skinned Kenyan who defrauded Ann into “marrying” him by concealing the fact that he was already legally married to a black-skinned woman and was the father of two children whom he left in Kenya. When the son who is also known as “Barack Obama” was two years old, the Kenyan Obama abandoned him and Ann, never to pay alimony and child support. With one exception, a brief visit which ended in his then ten-year-old son shutting the door on him in anger, the Kenyan Obama went to his death in a 1982 automobile accident without contact between the two.

            [It is the greatest irony that the politician who uses the same name as that of his biological father does so despite his lifelong hatred for that father (no matter what he says to the contrary). But of course he uses that name so that he can be identified as an “African-American.”]

            Until he was six, the future U.S. politician was raised by Ann, who named him “Barry.” So he was called at one of the ritiziest college preparatory schools in the U.S., the Punahou School in Honolulu. That school, though officially described as non-sectarian, was founded in 1841 by white Christian missionaries headed by the Reverend and Mrs. Hiram Bingham. With minor exceptions, it has been funding and other types of support from white people that are responsible for its having become an esteemed school of nearly 4,000 students who are a mixture of colors, nationalities, and wealth. And it was Ann and her parents, who assumed care for him at age ten to allow Ann to pursue a course of studies, that financed Barry’s tuition, just as it was almost entirely white persons who enabled Barry to become a student at Columbia University and the Harvard Law School, a member of the Illinois State Legislature, a member of the U.S. Senate, and a presidential candidate.

            Hawaiian journalists who have interviewed former classmates of Barry’s at  Punahou have quoted them as expressing astonishment upon reading or hearing the claims of the politician now known as “Barack,” in his memoirs, that he experienced discrimination at the school. They have all stated that Barry was well liked by everyone at the school and there was no discrimination against him of any kind.

 

                               1976 photo, courtesy of The Oahuan, yearbook of Punahou School. Barry is fourth from right,front.                

 

Typical rant caught by a “black” newspaper

            Evidently the presidential candidate known as “Barack Obama” thought that his rants about white discrimination against him, and his attribution of his present standing as owing entirely to “black heroes,” would go unreported and unnoticed. He has been tripped up, however, by reports in so-called “black” newspapers that any competent journalist can discover if any would take time away from the MMM hype to do so.

            For example, in a story by Gordon Jackson in the March 19, 2007 Louisiana Weekly entitled “Obama makes his case for being black enough,” Barry/Barack is quoted as having stated before a “black” audience in Selma, Alabama:

            “My very existence might not have been possible had it not been for some of the folks here today. It is because they marched that I stand before you here today.”

            Writer Jackson added: “Obama said that the march had a rippling effect across the ocean, giving hope to his grandfather and father in Africa.” Then he continued quoting “Obama” as follows:

            “So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama. I’m here because somebody marched. I’m here because you sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. It is because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois Senate and ultimately in the United States Senate.”

            One can only wonder what Ann Durham and her parents may think about those statements if they are in “heaven” in the fabled afterlife or what they might say if they could be resurrected to address Barry, his supporters, and the nation.

            As for this observer, I wonder what designation for himself Barry/Barack used on the U.S. Census form enabling him to identify himself as the member of two different “races” or “some other race.” And I also wonder if any enterprising journalist will ever ask him that question as he continues his quest to become the next U.S. president by engaging in what is known as “playing the race card” – in this case because, cleverly to be sure, he figures that white Americans have reached a stage of liberality that will induce them to think of it as quaint for the U.S. to have an “African-American president” and thus demonstrate to the world that “race” no longer matters in this nation. Upon the very theme that this scion of mixed parentage is running his campaign, however, and in the exchange of accusations of “racism” between himself and Hillary Clinton, Barry/Barack has demonstrated that the U.S.A. is a long way from overcoming prejudices based on an invention of nutcake 17th-18th Century German philosophers who converted differences in physiognomic characteristics into the concept they called raase: “race.”