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08 Oct 2016, 4:55 pm

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Anti-immigration is implicitly racist, because every time the topic comes up, it's always about immigration from non-white countries (fear of a white minority).

For example, many Americans find it disturbing that Barack Obama is descended from African immigrants, yet nobody seems to care about his Irish immigrant ancestry.


I couldn't care less about if he's half African - Obama also has a white Mama (from my state no less). People seem to forget that part. I sure am not going to vote for a President because of his race like several Americans did.


While it was common knowledge that Obama would be making history as the first African American President, I think it's been greatly exaggerated that that was a the primary motivation for most of his supporters.


In your opinion. I know better.


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08 Oct 2016, 5:04 pm

maybe i just don't know part of the story, but it's confusing to me why obama is seen as belonging to the same demographic as that of people whose ancestors were once slaves in the u.s., especially considering his (arguably peculiar and fairly unique) upbringing. from my point of view, his father might as well have been pakistani. or am i missing something?


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08 Oct 2016, 5:30 pm

nurseangela wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
nurseangela wrote:
Barchan wrote:
Anti-immigration is implicitly racist, because every time the topic comes up, it's always about immigration from non-white countries (fear of a white minority).

For example, many Americans find it disturbing that Barack Obama is descended from African immigrants, yet nobody seems to care about his Irish immigrant ancestry.


I couldn't care less about if he's half African - Obama also has a white Mama (from my state no less). People seem to forget that part. I sure am not going to vote for a President because of his race like several Americans did.


While it was common knowledge that Obama would be making history as the first African American President, I think it's been greatly exaggerated that that was a the primary motivation for most of his supporters.


In your opinion. I know better.


Are you deriving that from actual Obama supporters? Or had you learned that on Fox or Breitbart?


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