When will the USA get its first African American president

[Misreeya]

What evidence have you given to prove your assertions? Give me the evidence the people of Egypt today are related to the Ancient Egyptians.

Roddy, i don't have the patience of your denial fest today, because i understand your judgment is clouded with issues pertaining to your society. Howevr the topic of this thread is

When will the USA get its first African American president

So lets stay on topic.

 

[MalikX]

No, @Poitier isn't. You have several times now argued against the notion the Ancient Egyptians were blac and so far rejected and ignored all evidence and arguments otherwise, no matter how sensible and reasoned. The existence of invaders in Africa neither disputes nor invalidates black people's claim to it nor black people's claim to Egypt. Likewise a white people in China disputes nothing about the Chinese's claim to China or its history. So speak no more of "diversity".

The bolded is interesting. They say Egypt was the crossroads of the world but, the same is true for Middle Eastern civilizations such as Persia, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia or Europe with Rome and Greece. Those places were all in the Mediterranean and subject to the same patterns of various groups migrating, trading and intermingling but, you never hear people debating which races dominated those areas. Only the African ones.

 

[MalikX]

I don't think you can conjure up some imaginary atrocity to justify action against Gaddafi. When you look at what ISIS did to just Yazidis alone, that's all the evidence you need to see where things were headed. Gaddafi wasn't a saint, but he damn sure wasn't on that level. Considering Tobruk, Derna and Benghazi were terrorist hotspots (West Point Study), it makes sense why he'd intervene to stop them from gaining power and turning the clock back on all the reforms instituted in Libya. Gaddafi worked with the West to stem the rise of those groups until he got back stabbed. Just like Iraq, somehow people in US custody made their way out (Belhaj &Baghdadi). Considering how those weapons went to Mali, Boko Haram, Syria and elsewhere the actions of Libya are being felt today down to the massive movement of people into Europe. I highly doubt the killing would have reached that high. One thing is for certain, is Assad falls, those Islamists will damn sure massacre 100s of thousands. Starting with Shia, Christians, Sunni who supported the govt., and anyone else deemed "unislamic" like they already have been doing for years now.

We spread "democracy" (i.e. the removal of anyone who threatens western interests) and bounce like Seinfield after the fallout becomes too messy

 

[SirReginald]

When Cory Booker runs...

 

[godkiller]

The bolded is interesting. They say Egypt was the crossroads of the world but, the same is true for Middle Eastern civilizations such as Persia, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia or Europe with Rome and Greece. Those places were all in the Mediterranean and subject to the same patterns of various groups migrating, trading and intermingling but, you never hear people debating which races dominated those areas. Only the African ones.

The oldest Egyptian people found are the Ancient Egyptian sweet, which all DNA evidence implies were black. So there was no "crossroads" of people in Egypt originally.

 

[HollowPoints2]

How do Africans feel knowing that one of their ''own'' destabilized the continent by killing Gaddafi, decreased trade, and militarized the whole continent?

Great point about Gaddafi.

Thank Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for removing him.

Trust me, the continent was not stable by any means, and Gaddafi was toast regardless. The best he could have hoped for was an elongated Civil War a la al-Assad

No.

Moammar Qaddafi should have left the country before the US intervention allowing isis to take control of the country then come back after America realizes they cannot stabilize Libya.

Saddam Hussein should have done the same thing. If he would have left the country allowing the terrorist to take control, then America would have realized they made a bad decision by removing him. However, both Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein decided to stay instead of leaving thus they both were captured and killed as a result.

 

[lotteryplaya]

Never. Malcolm Gladwell explained how when the people in charge do something once they no longer feel guilty so it doesn't happen again. The same way African-American players are barely in baseball. The same way more African American golfers were on the tour before tiger Woods had his run than now.

Its more about the world thinking this country is less racist than actually passing legislation that would make it illegal to be racist. Just hoping evil people will stop being racist using the honor system hasnt worked out well for us.

 

[SirReginald]

America will never elect a black president

I disagree with that. Personally, I think if he's progressive enough it can happen. It just needs to be the right one. However, the Republican party will NEVER have a Republican President.

 

[John Reena]

Elite c00ning in this thread.

Hoteps n racist cacs think JUST alike

 

[SirReginald]

Elite c00ning in this thread.

Hoteps n racist cacs think JUST alike

No offense, but how is this thread a c00n thread? It's a discussion sir.

 

[desjardins]

Y'all get side tracked easy as fukk.

To the OP point, Obama grew up with no contact with his father. His experience was that of a African American raised by a white family (never been to Hawaii so don't know how much impact that had culturally , but he rarely bring Hawaii up). I think it's fair to characterize him as AA since it's a social construct.


I don't think we'll ever get an AA president that makes our issues a priority

 

[AV Dicey]

Billy Clinton was the first black president

Bill Clinton Kalonji was the best atalaku

 

[SnugglesDaBear]

Sudan untouched either but Omar Al Bashir is a genocidal maniac, I heard Eritrea is a police state with zero freedoms. We have bigger fish to fry

yeah keep listening to those western media lies. eritrea is 50% muslim, 50% christian yet the people live in harmony. the country is hella self-reliant which is a problem for the US/IMF/WB hence the blatant "the north korea of africa" lies.

 

[MajorVitaman]

@Misreeya with the heavy dose of

As to be expected

 

[EndDomination]

Obama is not African-American. His father is a Kenyan immigrant and his mother is white. Last time I checked African-Americans are those who can trace their ancestry to slaves dating back centuries.

That's not what it means, that's what you want it to mean.
AA is just a term for people of African-descent living in the US.