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March 15, 2007
Another Irish-American President?
As I mentioned earlier there are those who insist that as Barack Obama is, while of African descent, not of African American descent, he is not black given the meaning of the word "black" in American politics. Indeed, the day after I mentioned this someone claimed exactly that.
Interesting news has reached me though that as well as his Kenyan ancestry, Obama is also, from his mother's side, descended from an Irish immigrant, one who came over to flee the potato famine. There is of course only the most coincidental connection between this news arriving now and the upcoming St. Patrick's Day drinking and vomitfest on the 17th of this month.
Which leads me, at least in the argot of this particular Anglo-Irish family, to be able to prove that Barack Obama is indeed black. For, you see, he is a Protestant, and that makes him Black Irish.
"Proof That Barack Obama is Black," Crooked Timber, March 14, 2007
Posted at March 15, 2007 05:27 AM | Categories: Politics
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