The President is Black!

Only two problems with Obama declaring himself a racially pure Black.

• It disrespects some of his ancestors.
• It isn't factually true and he knows it. The Census is a legal government document, where failure to complete it honestly is perjury.

As the President of the United States, it is his duty to lead by example. The example is that you are what you believe yourself to be rather than what you are, irrespective of how this impacts others and irrespective of whether or not this falls within the confines of the law.

Obama has never said that he was interested in reality. His message has always been belief and change. He believes he is racially pure Black and changed his reality to reflect it. The only rationale for denying the truth is loyalty. He displayed his loyalty to his father, to Blackness, over the truth. He wants to maintain, even if only in his own mind, the myth that he is 100% Black, even at the expense of violating a law of the land.

Whether this represents a pride in having Black ancestors or a shame in having White ones, it is an example of racial bias in the man who many felt would lead us in this post-racial age in America. It clearly indicates his own internal conflict: the son of a white American woman (with ancestry back to the old South) and an aristocratic Kenyan man (possibly with ancestry back to slave traders) trying to include himself in the African-slave blood-American demographic.

Of course, this could all be a Clinton flashback...it all depends upon what "Black" means. But Obama is smart enough to know that most people aren't going to buy that rope a dope anymore.

The most favorable interpretation would be that Obama lied purposefully to help encourage the young, truly Black Americans, that they, too, someday can be President, by building on the myth that he is the first African-American President. Caring about others should matter, but not more than the truth.