Yes. Barak/Brak/he who can't stick to one spelling of his name has his own experiences but the difficult life of an immigrant was not something he experienced and I venture to say his experience with skin color was different than that of a full African-American, hence the reference to Tiger Woods. But I assume people will accept an identity if it suits them.

And he also spent some time in Indonesia as well as Hawaii.

-Rudey
--Smart maybe, but really let's not all fall under the magic spell.

I'm confused, Tiger Woods doesn't consider himself African American.

I agree that smart guys rarely get the vote. One thing I'm impressed, for the brief clips that I saw, is he is charismatic, smart and his method of communication is very down to earth. If he keep himself out of the vices of politics (drugs, sexs and corruption), he will go very far.

ETA: Isn't funny that politics and rock stars' lifestyle are pretty much the same. DIfference is that the some politicians are in a moral crusade, and the rock stars are enjoying their life.

Because it doesn't suit him. In the future who knows?

Michael Jackson didn't either at one point, but now he's got the Nation of Islam shacking up in his place and goes around telling everyone he got screwed because of being black, while the black community goes "Damn, I'm not exactly sure I want anything to do with Jackson."

-Rudey

The Secretary of State is Black???

WOW! Must be nice to pick and choose when you want to be Black, lol. And you know Michael is a BAD example. That man has problems that go far beyond race,lol.

Just out of curiosity, how does Tiger define himself? Multi-cultural?

Cablasian?? Confused?? you pick one.

My apologies - I guess I was thinking National level... :)

hah see you don't even want to touch the Jackson issue. I also knew kids who were Filipino and all of a sudden became hispanic when applying to college.

-Rudey
--Yeah...must be nice lol

It's a good thing we have you Rudey, or I think we just might. Since he gave the speech 200 times before, is only 1/2 black, was probably not treated like "regular" Black Americans and doesn't know how to spell his own first name I think people should take back every positive thing they said about him!

I didn't say to "take back every positive thing they said about him"!

-Rudey
--It's a good thing we have you Eclipse to make things up!

Are you implying that he's not black or are you just being facetious?

30% joke, 70% serious.

No, I said they should take everything back. Never said you did.

Tell me, what makes you think people have "fallen under the magic spell"?

Can you also tell me what led you tp say:

What exactly is the experience with skin color that a full African American would have? What is a "full" African American?