'Obama' - not black, not African-American

Persons of dark skin color, misled by the Mass Miscommunications Media (MMM), think that in "Barack Obama" they are getting "the first black president" and/or "the first African-American president." That notion is as false as it is preposterous.

To begin with, the MMM has yet to verify "Barack Obama" as the true name or birth name of the 44th president of the U.S. His Kenyan father abandoned him when he was a bit more than two years old. His mother, a white woman whose last name was Dunham, raised him and called him "Barry," as did all of his friends and classmates in the predominantly white prep school where he was educated. For all we know, the man called "Barack Obama" may be "Barry Dunham."His birth certificate has not been publicly released. What box he checked on the modern U.S. Census form, offering "mixed" as the answer for "race," has not been revealed.

More important than the dubious name for him is the identification of "Barack Obama" as a "black" man who will be "the first black American president." What nonsense. "Black" is the name of a color. It does not and cannot designate a "race" of people, since there is not and never has been any such characteristic of humanity as "race." The concept of "race" was invented by a bunch of 17th-18th Century crackpot German philosophers, and humanity has been stupid and crazy enough to buy into it and the ongoing disastrous results from it. Besides, most individuals identified as "blacks" are various shades of brown or tan or, as I have it in my definition in Lucifer's Dictionary of the American Language, just dark enough to avoid being white. And as for Obama/Dunham, his color is medium brown.

Nor is Obama/Dunham an African-American. That description is used by the MMM as a racial term; but it is not and cannot be so. It is by definition a geographical or dual citizenship term, and a ridiculous one at that. In order to be an African-American, you would have to be born in an African nation or a part of the U.S. and hold dual citizenship in the African country and the U.S. If you can find such a person, he or she may just as well be white as black or brown, since a white person may just as well have been born in an African country and may just as well hold the necessary dual citizenship for African-American characterization as a black or brown person.

You do not see the MMM referring to dark skinned persons in the U.S. descended from English parents as "English-Americans" as though that is a racial term. Indeed, you do not see the term "English-American" used at all. And when such terms as "French-American" and "Italian-American" are used by the MMM, they are not used as racial terms. Why, then, should the term "African-American" be used as a racial term?

If the majority position of modern anthropologists is correct, that position being that there is no such thing as "race" and all of us are descended from "a black woman in Africa" (referred to as "Eve"), we are all African-Americans, and the first African-American president of the U.S. was, yes, George Washington.