Obama is a Negro

[Living Well Is Best Revenge]

Birther fanatic Oily Taint thinks Obama's birth certificate is fake because it doesn't say Negro.

http://gawker.com/#!5796249/birther-...ould-say-negro

[Giles]

Does Ms Taitz' birth certificate say "Negro"? If not, it must be false too!

[Marley23]

"What?"
"She said Obama is near!"

[Cort]

That. Is. Hilarious! My God, what a stupid bitch!

[Duke]

Originally Posted by Cort

My God, what a stupid bitch!

This wouldn't have happened if Orly Taitz had a Sassy Gay Friend!

"What are you doing? What, what, what are you doing? What is it now, Orly...did his mom have a magical vagina that squirted him all the way to Kenya?"

[Beware of Doug]

Originally Posted by Giles

Does Ms Taitz' birth certificate say "Negro"? If not, it must be false too!

s/"Negro"/"Crazy Ass Bitch"

[Nars Glinley]

It isn't a "Birth Certificate", it's a "Certificate of Live Birth". Clearly a poor fake.

[Enderw24]

Does Orly's birth certificate list her as "whitey cracker"?

[howye]

Does anybody think that Oily will eventually actually say Obama can't be president because he's black?

It would be nice if she would just drop the pretense and say it. She will feel better.

[Living Well Is Best Revenge]

Originally Posted by howye

Does anybody think that Oily will eventually actually say Obama can't be president because he's black?

It would be nice if she would just drop the pretense and say it. She will feel better.

Exactly, that's what Ms. Taint really wants to say.

[billfish678]

Originally Posted by Duke

"What are you doing? What, what, what are you doing? What is it now, Orly...did his mom have a magical vagina that squirted him all the way to Kenya?"

And here I was thinking the old ping pong ball trick was something impressive...

[Miller]

Goddammit, if I'd known this before the election, I'd never have voted for him!

[Nars Glinley]

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

[Living Well Is Best Revenge]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

[aldiboronti]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

nm

[Chessic Sense]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

I think you have it backwards...he went to Harvard.


Too much?

[Sampiro]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

Which half of the movie does he talk through?

[Morbo]

Originally Posted by Marley23

"What?"
"She said Obama is near!"

::splort::

/Threadwin

[Roderick Femm]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

From Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe (proving some themes are timeless):

Phyllis (a luscious shepherdess): Your mother is a fairy? Are you a fairy too?
Strephon (the romantic lead): I'm only half a fairy.
P: Which half?
S: The upper half, down to the waistcoat.
P: Oh, thank heavens!


Roddy

[Ike Witt]

Originally Posted by Living Well Is Best Revenge

Wider...

[The Great Sun Jester]

She's missing the real clue and making an ass of herself in the process. The problem is not that Dad is not "Negro," it's that Mom is not "Haole."

[Cat Whisperer]

My birth certificate doesn't give my race, either. It does, however, say I was born in Moose Jaw, but I can't help that.

[Ludovic]

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

She's missing the real clue and making an ass of herself in the process. The problem is not that Dad is not "Negro," it's that Mom is not "Haole."

But she is Haole! Wait, that's Orly. And I'm being dyslexic.

[Skald the Rhymer]

Originally Posted by howye

Does anybody think that Oily will eventually actually say Obama can't be president because he's black?

It would be nice if she would just drop the pretense and say it. She will feel better.

On my cousin's FB page, he wrote that he wishes she'd just be honest and say that the birth certificate should read nigger.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by Living Well Is Best Revenge

I'm confused by this. Are you on your knees while making that face?

[Guinastasia]

The Freepers were saying the same thing.

Seriously, is anyone actually surprised by this? We KNEW if his birth certificate was released, people would still find something wrong with it.

They're also pulling the same old bullshit that because his father wasn't a citizen, he's not eligible to be president. (I guess that means Chester A. Arthur was never prez either?)

[Dewey Finn]

I heard somewhere that registrar put down whatever the parents said for race, and the president's parents identified themselves as African and Caucasian. Considering that his father was from Kenya, it's entirely reasonable that he might have considered himself African.

[Living Well Is Best Revenge]

Originally Posted by Chimera

I'm confused by this. Are you on your knees while making that face?

No!

[Peremensoe]

Originally Posted by Dewey Finn

Considering that his father was from Kenya, it's entirely reasonable that he might have considered himself African.

Well, he probably grew up thinking of himself as Luo foremost (in fact, Barack Junior told folks he was Luo when he first went to visit Kenya), but simplified that to "African" for the benefit of Americans.

As I've noted before, Africans generally do not think of themselves as being the same ethnicity as black Americans.

[billfish678]

Originally Posted by Ludovic

But she is Haole! Wait, that's Orly. And I'm being dyslexic.

Are those those nice people the Morlocks liked to snack on?

[gonzomax]

When Oily Taitz is your spokeswoman, you know you are in trouble. She is a clown on TV ,yet she still gets face time.

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by Enderw24

Does Orly's birth certificate list her as "whitey cracker"?

Isn't she an immigrant to the US?

So, for those who didn't see the actual Long Dong Birth Certificate, the issue here is that Obama Sr's race is listed as African, and not Negro. I can see where that would make sense to someone in the US who is actually African, by birth. "Negro" is a term used outside Africa.

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by billfish678

Are those those nice people the Morlocks liked to snack on?

You're thinking of Eloise. No wait...Oreos? Yeah, Oreos sound good. Oreos and milf. Yum.....

[Nancarrow]

Originally Posted by Beware of Doug

s/"Negro"/"Crazy Ass Bitch"

[geek pedant]You need an extra / at the end [/gp]

Originally Posted by Living Well Is Best Revenge

No!

Got a bit over-enthusiastic, did he? You should have done this or worn these

[Living Well Is Best Revenge]

Originally Posted by John Mace

Isn't she an immigrant to the US?

So, for those who didn't see the actual Long Dong Birth Certificate, the issue here is that Obama Sr's race is listed as African, and not Negro. I can see where that would make sense to someone in the US who is actually African, by birth. "Negro" is a term used outside Africa.

Hold up. Are you defending this moron?

[Captain Amazing]

Originally Posted by Living Well Is Best Revenge

Hold up. Are you defending this moron?

I think he's defending the birth certificate.

[Guinastasia]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

He's only half Negro. Unfortunately for Michelle, it appears to be the upper half.

Oh, I don't know about that

[Frank]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

It does, however, say I was born in Moose Jaw, but I can't help that.

Well, really, what more do we need to know? I, for one, think that says it all.

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by Living Well Is Best Revenge

Hold up. Are you defending this moron?

Three things:

1. I think she was not born in the US, so the joke about "cracker" on her birth certificate is kind of moot, as that is an Americanism. Just a point of clarification, although I could be wrong about her place of birth.

2. I wasn't sure if people knew the "African" on the certificate was referring to Obama Sr, and not the current prez.

3. No, I'm not defending her. I'm saying that it actually does make sense for Obama Sr to have asked for "African" to be put in for race since "Negro" is not what he'd call himself in his homeland. It would, however, be odd if the "African" referred to the current prez, which is what I thought the issue was when I read the OP.

It does kind of harken back to a strange time when we put the parents' race on the BC. Do any states still do that, I wonder?

[Sampiro]

I want to know who Obama was in his past lives. I've read that he has waking memories of and openly boasts about his lives as Reinhard Heydrich, Sawney Bean, Elizabeth Bathory and the Empress Theodora and says in his next life he'll unleash a hoarde of zombies and demons. I'm hereby forming the Rebirther Party.

[Frank]

Originally Posted by John Mace

1. I think she was not born in the US, so the joke about "cracker" on her birth certificate is kind of moot, as that is an Americanism. Just a point of clarification, although I could be wrong about her place of birth.

You are not wrong. She was born in Moldova (then part of the USSR) in 1960, emigrated to Israel at age 21, and to the US six years later.

2. I wasn't sure if people knew the "African" on the certificate was referring to Obama Sr, and not the current prez.

One would hope so, since there is no spot for the race of the newborn, but there is for each parent.

3. No, I'm not defending her. I'm saying that it actually does make sense for Obama Sr to have asked for "African" to be put in for race since "Negro" is not what he'd call himself in his homeland.

It does make sense. But that may have been a standard entry for blacks in Hawaii at that time. Perhaps one of our ~50-year-old SDMB members from the mainland who happen to be differently ethnicitalized from us can enlighten us as to what's on their original birth certificate.

[Rysdad]

Originally Posted by Ludovic

But she is Haole! Wait, that's Orly. And I'm being dyslexic.

I see what you did there. Well played.

[howye]

Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer

On my cousin's FB page, he wrote that he wishes she'd just be honest and say that the birth certificate should read nigger.

That is actually the word I believe she would like to use, but I was raised better than that. Well, i wasn't actually but I try to shake that off now that I am an adult.

[GIGObuster]

Originally Posted by Frank

You are not wrong. She was born in Moldova (then part of the USSR) in 1960, emigrated to Israel at age 21, and to the US six years later.

Her real certificate therefore should say "Russki"

[crowmanyclouds]

Originally Posted by Sampiro

I want to know who Obama was in his past lives. I've read that he has waking memories of and openly boasts about his lives as Reinhard Heydrich, Sawney Bean, Elizabeth Bathory and the Empress Theodora and says in his next life he'll unleash a hoarde of zombies and demons. ...

Truly, he is not an ordinary Negro!


CMC fnord!

[Dewey Finn]

Originally Posted by Frank

It does make sense. But that may have been a standard entry for blacks in Hawaii at that time. Perhaps one of our ~50-year-old SDMB members from the mainland who happen to be differently ethnicitalized from us can enlighten us as to what's on their original birth certificate.

The reason that the birth certificate identifies his father as African is not because that was the standard but because that's what the parents said. From Factcheck.org: "why is Obama’s father’s race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH [Hawaii Department of Health] told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that 'we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.'"

[Skald the Rhymer]

Originally Posted by howye

That is actually the word I believe she would like to use, but I was raised better than that. Well, i wasn't actually but I try to shake that off now that I am an adult.

Well, most of us Rhymers are black, so we're allowed.

[Sampiro]

Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer

Well, most of us Rhymers are black

Is that what's on your birth certificates or are you just going on hearsay?

[Stink Fish Pot]

As bizarre as this issue is, what she says rings true. No one was using the term "African" when Obama was born. Black, Negro and Colored were the descriptors of the day.

Does she have any other examples of birth certificates from the same source? Unless or until she can nail down this thing, maybe she should just shut up.

I think Obama should, on his last day in office, tell everyone he wasn't and isn't an American. He was voted into office illegally. And then say, "So what? What can you do about it now?"

The man is the President. Personally I could care less where he was born. I'd be delighted if he was a mushroom at this point if he would fix the economy and get us out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. So maybe he can't fix the economy on his own. He could pull our military out of the ME. Do that, and he's a successful President in my book.

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by Dewey Finn

The reason that the birth certificate identifies his father as African is not because that was the standard but because that's what the parents said. From Factcheck.org: "why is Obama’s father’s race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH [Hawaii Department of Health] told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that 'we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.'"

Hawai'i also probably has a unique issue surrounding race. People are so mixed, racially, that it would make sense to just put down whatever the parents say. I don't suppose you could get away with that in the South in the 60s.

Originally Posted by Frank

One would hope so, since there is no spot for the race of the newborn, but there is for each parent.

Not everyone is going to know that.