Obama is American and not anything else

Dawn Scales article identifying Barack Obama is biased. To harp only about his father’s ethnicity when biologically, progeny are products of both parent’s genes is asinine. Only from racist unenlightened backward white segregationist stand, can he be called Black.(recall Strom Thurmond’s child?)

Obama like most modern enlightened Americans, is a son of mixed parentage. His father was an immigrant Kenyan, and his mother was a Caucasian from Kansas who was more responsible for raising him than his father. Obama has become a symbol of America’s progress from the racially oppressive days where interracial marriages were banned(Unchristian).

All candidates, should only be judged by their experience (or lack thereof), legislative records, and political ideologies. It is offensive to label him anything other than a junior American Senator with a magnetic personality and incredible oratorical skills.

While it is unrealistic to wish that unchristian racism has dissipated from our midst, it is unfair to keep trying to identify him as “black” candidate when he is bi-racial.

And if Scales also thinks women cannot be good leaders in times of war, look at the performance of Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi; the first nation in the world to elect a woman as Prime Minister was also third world nation (Sri Lanka) way back in 1960; and she withstood a military coup, and a Marxist insurgency proving to be a tough leader. It is ludicrous for Ms. Scales to label him.