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Ancestry & Politics

When Jesse Jackson, the political huckster from Chicago, pronounced many years ago that black Americans shall from here on out be called African-Americans, the corporate mainstream news media followed his command as though he was the pied piper of all things to do with people who have African ancestry in America. However, most black Americans have a myriad of ancestries from not just Africa, but other continents as well, including the Americas. One self-proclaimed leader trying to prop up his own self importance through media-glorified pronouncements does not get to name an entire people just on his say so.

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, is yet another politician who made Chicago his home and unlike most black Americans, cannot or does not trace his ancestry to slaves in America. Several or many commentators have said that his apparent ancestral disconnection from slavery was the only reason that he, as a brown-skinned person, was accepted by the many non-blacks who voted for him. We don't know if that is true or not.

One thing is for sure, neither Barack Obama nor Jesse Jackson, whatever the characterizations of others or their own pronouncements, implications and pompous, grandiose expropriations of symbols, is the leader of black America.

[revised on 7/2/10]

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