If Obama had never been president, America would not have slid into fascism.

I’m sorry, but I honestly think the election of Obama (a black man who had the temerity to have ideas above his station) was just too much for the conservative, White-supremacist majority.

Trump would never have been elected. The SCOTUS would not have been stacked, America might still be considered a friendly nation, the world would not be racked by wars.

But now, Trump and the SCOTUS are doing everything they can to ensure another Obama will never happen again. Voting rights came first…

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NeddyKelly · M

Obama is not black - mixed race

Barack Obama is of mixed race, born to a white American mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (of Kansas), and a Black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr.

ElwoodBlues · M

@NeddyKelly In the US, "black" almost always means mixed race. You may have a different usage in Australia, but this is the American usage of "black."

swirlie · 31-35, F

@ElwoodBlues
In the US, "White" almost always means mixed race as well. The closest America ever got to having true White people in their culture was when King Charles came to visit Trump last week.

Waveney · 41-45, M

@NeddyKelly in America, if you are not 100% White, with White parents and grandparents, then you are Black.

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Waveney
There's no such thing as 100% White in America, Waveney... not even do 100% White American parents nor 100% White American grandparents exist. That's just a strange hard truth that Americans refuse to acknowledge.

Waveney · 41-45, M

@swirlie Yes I know.