CHICAGO - Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama went to church on Sunday and joked about being “too black.”
In a Father’s Day speech to several thousand people at the predominantly black Apostolic Church of God, Obama talked about how people need to have high expectations for themselves then shared a few anecdotes about running for president.
“You remember at the beginning, people were wondering — how come he doesn’t have all the support in the African American community. You remember that?” he said to shouts of “oh yeah.”
“That was when I wasn’t black enough. Now I’m too black,” he said to laughter and applause.
Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president if elected in November, is the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas.
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Photo credit: Reuters/John Gress (Obama speaks at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago on June 15, 2008)
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Before he became president in all of american history
- Posted by Kenya“If you had one drop of ‘black’ blood in you, you are black.
Now that we have a BLACK President he has to be a mutt, even to him. America, we are a jaded and get dumber by the minute. People we need to get over this and accept the fact that your ancestors and mine has identified this man nothing else but black.