Is President Obama considered black considering his mother is white and he was not raised by a black family?
It's his choice to self-identify as whatever he pleases, especially because he does have the biological backing to do it. I always think it's so funny that I have to self-identify as Asian, when clearly a lot of people use that term to refer to Chinese, Korean and Japanese people (among others).To actually address your question: I can understand why you would think it would be "racist" for Obama to pick a side. Although I'm not mixed race, I guess I fall on the "American Born Confused Desi" spectrum, and I can tell you that the peers of my generation are all pretty widely scattered around this spectrum. Some of them are so white-washed, the only thing I have in common with them is brown skin. Some of them, like me, try desperately to hold on to vestiges of desi culture that our equally desperate parents tried to impart in us while growing up. When asked whom I pledge allegiance to patriotically, I say the following: Canadian by citizenship and support for healthcare, American financially, and Indian at heart. What a muddle. The barista at the NYC Starbucks didn't believe me when I pronounced the accent grave in crème, being a stubborn Canadian, claiming damn it, I took French in high school. Sardonically, he said, "it's cream, lady. Cream." Crushing my stupid Canadian Indian American heart. In different circumstances, different aspects of my Americanness, Canadianness and Indianness stand out.Outwardly, I just find it easier to say, hey, I'm Indian. Obama has an equally, if not more diverse background. Being black, from my understanding, can be a defining trait in your life, much the same way my brown skin defines me. And it's not racist to identify yourself with that.
What constitutes a death threat?
Well the bad news is that he has your threat in writing, even worse than if you had just said it to him. But, you didn't say you were going to do anything to him......"unless he ever called you a *******again". Looks to me like the ball is in his court. If he choses to call you that name again, then are you really going to kill him? Probably not? I don't think there's much he can do, but I don't have time to dig for the information. Write to a judge or an attorney through an email and ask them...
Is President Obama considered black considering his mother is white and he was not raised by a black family?
It's his choice to self-identify as whatever he pleases, especially because he does have the biological backing to do it. I always think it's so funny that I have to self-identify as Asian, when clearly a lot of people use that term to refer to Chinese, Korean and Japanese people (among others).To actually address your question: I can understand why you would think it would be "racist" for Obama to pick a side. Although I'm not mixed race, I guess I fall on the "American Born Confused Desi" spectrum, and I can tell you that the peers of my generation are all pretty widely scattered around this spectrum. Some of them are so white-washed, the only thing I have in common with them is brown skin. Some of them, like me, try desperately to hold on to vestiges of desi culture that our equally desperate parents tried to impart in us while growing up. When asked whom I pledge allegiance to patriotically, I say the following: Canadian by citizenship and support for healthcare, American financially, and Indian at heart. What a muddle. The barista at the NYC Starbucks didn't believe me when I pronounced the accent grave in crème, being a stubborn Canadian, claiming damn it, I took French in high school. Sardonically, he said, "it's cream, lady. Cream." Crushing my stupid Canadian Indian American heart. In different circumstances, different aspects of my Americanness, Canadianness and Indianness stand out.Outwardly, I just find it easier to say, hey, I'm Indian. Obama has an equally, if not more diverse background. Being black, from my understanding, can be a defining trait in your life, much the same way my brown skin defines me. And it's not racist to identify yourself with that.
Why do so many "fear" President Obama?
I am slightly confused about the question due to the fact that it is a little vague. If you could provide an example of these fears it would be helpful; I’m assuming you mean general GOP antipathy and hostility towards pres Obama.I suspect a lot of this comes down to feeling threatened. Since the Reagan era, maybe even prior to Reagan, the Republicans felt they had the moral high ground. The religious right was not always entrenched in politics. Prior to the 1970’s the religious right perceived all politics and politicians as corrupt and immoral, their explicit association with the GOP has only existed for the last 45 years or so. But with their vocal participation in politics the GOP seemed proud to stake their claim as the party of wholesome, strong, patriotic, Christian and “family” values. But in 2008, here comes a relative newcomer to the US political stage and gets elected as POTUS.Obama is intelligent, well spoken, well liked (on the whole). He is thoughtful and diplomatic. But he is also a black guy with a funny, foreign, middle eastern sounding name. I don’t think most republicans feel threatened by Obama but rather by what Obama represents: a smart, capable president who has encouraged diversity, helped normalize things like gay marriage, wants healthcare for all Americans, prioritizes climate change. But above all, Obama is drama free, scandal free, and gaffe free. No one can fairly accuse Obama of being stupid or evil (in contrast to, respectively, George W and Dick Cheney). Obama took the high ground: he bent over backwards to try to compromise with Mitch McC and republicans in Congress but the more reasonable he was, the more childish, blaming and obstructive they became. Now they look bad and they know it. In terms of temperment and personality, Obama is one of the classiest, most respectable, diplomatic presidents we have had in some time. Republicans resent the fact that they have ceded the moral high ground to the democrats by acting like obstinate, unreasonable children who put party before country in contrast to Obama’s measured attempts to broker compromise and they feel threatened by the fact that (gerrymandering notwithstanding) increasingly diverse demographics will eventually drive them to extinction. Obama represents everything they hate about the social changes that have occurred in the past few decades and increasing diversity among the US population.
What was the rebellious acts of the sons of liberty and the observers?
The Sons of liberty were rebellious in defying British authorities and engaging in acts of sabotage such as the "Boston Tea Party" which were outright crimes under British Common Law; observers who did not take active part in these activities were often complicit in that they either did nothing to stop the SOL activities or they encouraged them outright..
My husband left me with a 7 month old, no money, no car, and no job......?
B4 the death threat I begged him to try to work it out, i even offered a trial seperation. but now i know i can never go back to him. the trouble is i just erase the last 4 years of my life, n pretend not to still love him b/c i do. we have been together since highschool and i am having trouble trying to get over that feeling of lonliness, ya know? We were so happy once and now it just kills me inside to know it will never be that way again.... my son deserves a daddy who cares like when he was first born n i feel like i failed him so badly!!
Why is there so much upheaval over DACA?
If I may use analogy, government is evicting families who have lived in house illegally over a decade or more.It is not pleasant to see crying and screaming children and adults while they are being evicted. And it is also understandable that especially children who moved to the house when they were little feel that it is their house because they lived there for so long. But there is no legal basis for such feeling of entitlement.One might say children don’t deserve that punishment. Sure, while they are children, choice is not theirs to make. But once they are adult, they choose to keep staying in that house knowing it is not theirs. Also, being sent to their actual, more crappy house they actually own is not a punishment. While squatting in a nicer house, they get to enjoy better school, better jobs, nicer government services and nicer neighborhood. Even after being sent back (i.e deported), they would be in much better position than had they grown up in their own crappy house.One might say that their parents were paying rent. But their parents are not engineers or scientists. It is obvious that they could never afford legal rent. And as they grow old and infirm, one must wonder who should pay for the cost of upkeep of the house, and also additional cost of looking after elderly resident, who could never afford their own pension.But neighbors who use them for cheap labour like lawn mowing want them to stay so they can enjoy cheap price. Other neighbors who work as manual laborers want them to be evicted because they suffer from low wage. Also they feel that squatters drain government resources like school, emergency services etc. which get stretched because there are too many squatters (or illegal, or illegal alien or undocumented immigrants). For them, it is like they live in the same building, and as more squatters move in, things get visibly worse. This doesn't affect middle class at all because they actually live in nicer area, and their kids go to nicer school, while they clearly see the benefit of cheap labour. They might say, “hey it is a free country. Let them stay.”