Is America Ready for a Black President?

Re: # 23

Ana, It’s the question everyone and their mom is asking, and no one is really taking it in a racial context. It’s the same question that Time mag asked when Lieberman was running 8 years ago, and Jackson 12. Give Americans a little more credit than that. These are very legitimate questions to be pondering upon. Whether race is significant or not in a supposed “colorblind” society, it very most certainly is “important” and asking such questions does not make one racist. The point Gill Sahib made is not to question the intelligence of the Americans, but to view race/gender in a prevailing view.

Is America ready for a Gay President? Is American ready for a Native American President? The three top Dem contender are: A Black, a Woman, a Hispanic. Just because we are “ready”.

Masadi Sahib, I am sure you know a lot more about the world than I ever could. Perhaps you would also know that Ahmadis have a special form to sign to get even a friggin Shanakti card. Yes, they can be generals (and they were) but that was 300 BC just around the time Alexander fought with Porus near my village.

With all due respect to Gill sahib, who has put together this article, and all the rest of you, I personally am tired of this question. Black people are citizens of this country and if one of them runs for president, more power to them. Regardless of whether America is ready or not, there are folks other than our white brothers and sisters who will be running for president, and maybe not Obama, but one day a change is going to come.

Also the insinuation that Obama is an Uncle Tom is insulting and quite ridiculous.

Re: # 21

Dear Ana, it is the beauty of this system that anyone can ask such questions. Can you imagine asking if Pakistan is ready for an Ahmadi President (yes, Ahmadis are citizens of Pakistan). It even allows foreigners to poke fun of its ways. Imagine someone questioning Prophet Mohammad’s prophethood in some Islami countries?

Please fix the interacts format (to what it used to be).. rest of the changes seem well intentioned and may (eventually) work well. Give us a choice to go back to the old look and feel (as much as feasible). thanks.

Isn't Obama an Uncle Tom? More pertinently, wont he have to be a 'house nigger' (in the words of the great Malcolm X) to have any realistic chance of being elected POTUS?

I think Mrs. Clinton has more chance of winning the nomination this time round but Obama is still young enough to run again the next time round or the time after that...

Good read Gill sahib,

He [Bill Clinton] is so popular that many [among the blacks] call him the first black president of America.

He was immensly popular in gay community as well but no one calls him first gay president of America :)

Reply to #16 by echoboom:

"we are all guilty of this namak-slavery"

I would not go that far ... 'we all' ... but you got a solid point. I call it the 'mai-baap' syndrome.

Not at all Pathans & gurkhaas too...post 1857
and Pre-1857 Brahmins, muslim nawabs, poorabyaas, & tilangaas.

This namak loyalty is the root problem. Dharam loyalty without never namkeen.

here the claim was by khalsaa..so the reply.

we are all guilty of this namak-slavery.

All of us from that region have same DNA and are humans first and formost. Proud does not mean arrogant. It just means secure in who you are.

Obama is a nice guy, just needs more experience. Dont care what any president's religion is. This place civilizes people over time and they will do what's right for USA.

GT is right. 1857 loyalties were based upon each community's interests and their experiences at the hands of others. Nothing new.

Bye for now.

Reply to #13 by echoboom,

Boom sahib:

You say, "and then one ends up as Mandi Bhaudin Punjabi Khalsas licking the hand that feeds them..like in 1857."

You conviniently forget the pathans (and the gurkhas)! Why? Selective recall or ignorance of history?

Beware!

There might be a President Aurangzeb Obama someday...you might have to watch your diet then. Khalsa DNA's do get mixed up with Papppas, Jaats & RaamGarRiyyahs, khatris, and Gujjars...

and then one ends up as Mandi Bhaudin Punjabi Khalsas licking the hand that feeds them..like in 1857.

#11 echo

No need to check :). Solid Mandi Bhaudeen Punjabi Khalsa DNA and proud of it.

On top of it, not a Namak Harami and therefore a loyal American :).

#10 Posted by Pardesi
Stop bashing Americans please :)
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Anyone who does not bash USA or suggests not to bash USA should have his DNA checked...for geneology. :)

America is ready for a black president but not Obama. Obama does not have demonstrable experience as senator or governor. Lot of potential though.

Collin Powell would have won in 2000, if he had decided to run.

Stop bashing Americans please :)

I think O'Bama is just a poster boy. He will be the presedent of USA on the day when fish will ride bicycle. On the other hand Guiliani closely fits the profile of a typical US President - psycopath, and a genocidal maniac - so I think he is the first choice of the establishment i.e. US elite. Voting system is a very articulate and calculated fraud and does not count.

They are pathologically paranoid of Islam.


This is BS, plain and simple. They are afraid of islamofascism, not islam.

Plus, there was a poll that said americans would sooner elect a muslim to the white house than an atheist.