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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:03:46 +0000

would like the address of attoney general are Barack obama. thank you so much

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By: The scout

The scout — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:24:13 +0000

It seem every little thing Obama does that appears to be a mistake on his part or by association, he’s dragged over the coals. Yet McCain is either being very forgetful or liar and his associate are saying awhful things like the remarks made me the priest about Katrina and God’s punishment to those people and about Hitler and the holocust ordained by God. These are serious statments and to this day McCain has not disassociate himself from this man. Yet they want to crucify Obama for an eratic Rev Wright. It’s time we look pass race and colour, that is premative thinking. I only see race when other one wants to deem me inferior and exploit me.

By: JC

JC — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:12:55 +0000

Obama is the man of the century in my eyes. I’ll tell you why, he married a black woman!

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

By: Yardbroom

Yardbroom — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:43:19 +0000

SheShemini
I have also seen Imitation of Life. The first time I saw it as a young man, I was annoyed with the daughter.

Later, I saw it at another level and understood how the environment in which a person lives, can condition their way of thinking about themselves.

It is indeed a good film, it is repeated on televison from time to time. Like you, I certainly would recommend a viewing.

By: Sheshemini

Sheshemini — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:58:14 +0000

Well David, not I, but many black folks here in America saw Buba Clinton, ah mean President Clinton as our first black president, so with that, and when all is said and done I am sure the Clinton’s will go into high gear for Senator Obama.

By: David

David — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:54:24 +0000

Events of yesterday seem to have paved the way for a Clinton and Obama peace pipe session which should see the transition of Clinton supporters to Obama and the process to heal the party going into November. No doubt it will take some time for the hard feeling on both side of the fence to thaw but thaw it will when the Democrats realize that there is a big prize at stake.

Of interest to Barbados and our politicians and aspirants alike has been the way Obama and Clinton have generated interest in the process of elective politics in the USA. Women, independents have been falling out of the woodwork. In Barbados we have seen a reversal where our people have become so cynical and disconnected about and from the process that if it continues could lead to an undermining of our current system. We need for our political parties to attract the right kinds of people to serve. The old way which the party machinery has been use to regurgitating politicians needs to be revisited.

By: Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:19:42 +0000

100% bajan wrote

The Nation newspaper article reports that Eric Holder’s father who left Barbados when he was 12 0r 13 met and married his wife who was born in New Jersey of Barbadian parents does that still make Eric Holder who was born in New York a Bajan?

Personally I think we are the only country that is quick to try to identify with anyone who might have a trickling of Bajan blood in them as a “son/daughter of the soil”
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We do not consider folk to be Jews only because they were born in Israel? Do we?

So why must you necessarily be born in Bim to be Bajan?

By: Sheshemini

Sheshemini — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:14:21 +0000

Well Yardbroom, I see what you mean. I don’t know if you have ever seen the movie Imitation of Life? Wonderful movie that deals with race issues in pre civil rights America. I always cry at the end when Mahalia Jackson lifts her voice in song to the Lord at the funeral. What you mentioned about the student made this movie come to mind.

By: 100% bajan

100% bajan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:04:59 +0000

Personally I think we are the only country that is quick to try to identify with anyone who might have a trickling of Bajan blood in them as a “son/daughter of the soil”

By: Yardbroom

Yardbroom — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:16:38 +0000

Sheshemini
This student was one of only two black students in the class; all the others were white.

I could have tried to explain certain issues to him, but it was the first week of term. I wanted to have as good a relationship with him as with the other students, sometimes it is best to learn through experience.

The lessons thus learned, are more permanent.

By: Sheshemini

Sheshemini — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:43:08 +0000

Yardbroom, This was told to me by a mixed race lady from my home country in the Caribbean. This mixed race lady was sponsored as a domestic in the mid 60’s from back home. She needed a social security card so the white American boss took her down to the US Post Office to fill out the form. She filled out the form, and in the area for race she wrote coloured. The man reviewed the form before turning it in, and upon seeing coloured as race he told her to change it to white. He said back home you are coloured, but they don’t know the difference here, so just be white from now on.

By: Yardbroom

Yardbroom — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:23:06 +0000

People can sometimes be whatever they “think” they are.

Some years ago completing documents for a student, I enquired of ethnicity? after a slight pause, he said white. He was darker than me..I could not understand it… I put white on his document. No one in the class thought he was white, but was I to have an argument with him to convince him he was black…time and experience would be the ultimately judge of that.

By: Sheshemini

Sheshemini — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:15:43 +0000

Politically Incorrect, I did not put two and two together regarding Eric Holder until I saw his name here in the blog. I heard them mention his name on the news as part of a Vice Presidential team, but it just slipped me, so when I saw his name here, I said oh, that Eric Holder and I remembered the Ebony article. I gather the late Mr. John Johnson was the one that made the final decision of running the Eric Holder article in Ebony. It was a nice article and it showed pictures of Eric and wife and baby. I believe the article said the wife was a doctor at Howard University Hospital. Scout the article in Ebony did not mention that Eric Holder was a Barbadian, they made it sound like he was American. Yes I have always wondered why we call mixed race people black myself. You shoudld hear Chelsea Smith the last year Miss USA lambasting in Ebony sayin she is half white and half black. And I guess Tiger who was married to the white lady in Barbados says he is Chinese, black and white.

By: David

David — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:24:03 +0000

Why do we trivialize the fact that a Black man has won the Democratic nomination for the highest office in the USA? Even Whites in America are congratulating themselves and America because his nomination shows that great strides have been made since conditions which gave rise to the civil rights movement less than 50 years ago. We can preach the ideal position of the need for our world to be colour blind but it is the accomplishments of people like Obama who maybe able to able to establish rainbow coalitions that will translate that ideal or dream to a reality.

Don’t forget that the last man to do it was White and he was assassinated by fringe elements in the USA for his trouble.

We hope for mankind that Obama is able to continue on his journey.

By: The scout

The scout — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:08:21 +0000

I don’t support Barrack Obama because he’s black, I support him because of his message. It is time we see each other as human being, this black,white, Indian, etc. must come together but it is a long way off. Blacks are a lot more interested in coming together than the other races, that’s why I commend Obama for moving the legacy of Martin Luther King forward. I have relatives in the USA and they tell me that the blacks youngsters are beginning to raise their way of thinking.

By: The scout

The scout — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:00:51 +0000

Incedentally, do you know that Eric Holder is a second generation barbadian? Both parents are bajans.

By: Centipede

Centipede — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:56:44 +0000

Congratulations indeed! Why not congratulate the whites who are the reason for his successful election?

And why do we call mixed race people ‘black?’ – you should hear Tiger Woods.

And where would the ‘Negro Race’ be today if hadn’t been transplanted into the Western World?

Time to stop this silly ‘race’ talk and see people as PEOPLE.

By: Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:23:26 +0000

David
Do you really believe that being the President of the USA is the the biggest job in the free world ?

Why are we to hope in Obama?

He is not the BLESSED HOPE. THE BLESSED HOPE IS REALLY THE ONLY HOPE!