The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Kenyans are not black. Discuss.

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For the benefit of the thousands working drawing salaries in Britain’s race relations industry, here are two free people – black and white – debating racial issues. Columnist Debra Dickerson defends the ludicrous contention that Barack Obama is not "black," taking in good part the deserved oral fisking she gets from the show’s host, Stephen Colbert.

The most magical moment is when she accuses him of racism. Assuming any British TV presenter had the balls to put himself in this position in the first place, that’s the point he would have to end the joke or curl up and die. Not this guy.

When Britain gets to this point, we may have a free country on our hands again. In the meantime, just watch and enjoy. H/T FreeBornJohn

3 responses to “Kenyans are not black. Discuss.”

  1. Daily Referendum Avatar
    Daily Referendum

    Is Debra Dickerson saying that Barack Obama is not good enough to be black because he doesn’t have slave ancestors? If Barack went around saying he wasn’t black, his campaign would be very short.
    Does Debra get paid for spreading this rubbish?

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    Eric

    A consummate defeat of ‘ethnic particularism’ – and funny too, though I was actually left wondering why Obama chose to label himself black. Makes one wonder how the campaign would be going if he had not. Black may be a word that is reclaimed yet, given the narrow definition Americans ascribe to it.

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    Loca Lingo

    first of all, Dear Tom Paine, congratulations for your blog (I discovered you through my autoroll widget).
    Secondly, there might be a thread you might be interested in going through… (comments are maybe more interesting) http://blog.localingo.com/2007/02/09/mixed-people-and-perception/

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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