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"points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm so with you CPL on this dark-skinned/light-skinned issue.  If it weren't for my grandma Rena, mother and sisters I'd be a complete and utter mess.  Grandma always told all 8 of her granddaughters we were the brightest,most beautiful children she knew.  She reinforced the mantra with every visit.<br><br>I was 17 when I met my first husband. He was 19. He was black, cherokee, white, all rolled up in there.  I have mahoney brown skin.   I had long wavy hair down the middle of my back.  When he took me to meet his mother, she oohed and awed all over me.    When she left the room  I heard her tell her daughter.  \"Indeed, Lucy, she's got pretty hair, but she's soooooo dark!\"  I'm was like oh shit, what have I gotten myself into?  It was the first time, I'd every had heard another black person talk like that to me.<br><br>When I asked my ex husband WTF?  he said oh, don't pay her any mind, that woman is crazy.  I love mother, but the woman is just silly crazy.\"  I loved him more and took his word that he loved me just as I was. <br><br>My mother-in-law kept the remarks to herself when it came to me, but she'd still remark on other folk's skin tone, hair,  and she'd make references to my daughters when they were born.  My ex husband would tell her to shut up and mind her damn business.   The marriage lasted 13 years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:17:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081569, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yall insist on torturing yallselves, dont, ya.<br><br><br>The title alone said all i needed to hear.<br><br><br>If its entitled He's Not Black, all the rest is clearly folk talking amongst themselves.<br><br>Ms. Arana seems like a nice enough and educated enough woman, but she knows piddle about being Black in America, therefore i got no time for her.<br><br>this article was MUCH more interesting<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802233_2.html?sid=ST2008112900984&s_pos=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:27:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Inkognegro", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Trust me, if Tiger ever finds himself on the wrong side of the law, he will find out just how black he really is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:04:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084536, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you are contradicting yourself ,in that Obama  does see himself as black so there should be no objections to calling him black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:27:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 26, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ra60785,<br><br>Clearly! I thought that I was the only one that was bothered by everyone referring to the President Elect of the United States, by his first name. I cannot recall the first or the last time I heard the current POTUS referred to as GEORGE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_18:03:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110391, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent point. I agree that some posters in this blog are very nasty. If you do not share their identity politics, you are damned or self-hating.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130201, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4132894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sepia, IKEA runs commercials of multi-ethnic familes; I saw one that was real cute - Asian Dad, Black Mother, they were snuggling under the quilts on the IKEA bed and their little one (Asian-Black racially mixed) came in and interrupted them...LOL, it was cute and sexy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:09:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4090194, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town you speak the truth.  Nothing makes me angrier than the contempt shown for our people after all the work we've done and continue to do to make this nation act right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:30:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079681, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Try Oxford for starters.<br><br>The guys there are intellectuals and the way they say stuff with that British accent is a major turn-on; but be warned, they're not into good dental hygene (which was a major turn-off for me, LOL.  I like guys with teeth)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:48:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091009, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4089359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG GreenLady!!!  Why did you make me choke on my lunch with this!!!  :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:19:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "bittersweet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084414, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've been seeing them all over the print ads in the City, mostly perfumes ads. But I thought it was just because I never paid attention before. So they <i>are</i> new... Huh...what's up with that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 35, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078627, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And the first moment he #$%# up, they will make sure to let ERRYBODY know \"He black.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:45:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He won't be black, he won't be biracial;<br>He'll be a NIGGER.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:19:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078778, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091414": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bittersweet:   HEY!  :&gt;)        Sorry.  :&gt;(<br><br>Enjoy the rest of it!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:49:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4089359, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes. That is history. Today, I think that people should not maintain these racial notions and categories because they are rooted in racism and serve no scientific purpose. There is no scientific basis for race. The only thing that separates us is the melanin in our skin. Again if melanin is the only thing that separates us. Therefore, should we not accept the jewish woman with nappy hair or the Asian man with the wide nose? Obviously not all \"Black\" people have nappy hair or broad noses, I am just trying to get my point across that race and color do not matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:07:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083569, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As far as the ads, I can't hate on that because the US is years behind some of the world on that front.  European TV and print has had ads with interracial couples for years, and I've seen some the last few times I visited Canada.  It's about time IMO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:07:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083275, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great minds think alike.<br>Great ideas have a million authors and failures are orphans, lol<br><br>I am with you ALL the way.<br><br>Frederick Douglass 4th of Jully address is one of my all time favorites.<br><br>No one, but slaves and former slaves, had as much reason to believe in this countries ideals.  Everybody else had it handed to them and they take it for granted. Only black folks and jews understand persecution, and are staunch defenders of civil rights and Constitutional freedoms.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:30:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078743, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah: Soooo, I'm re-thing those boxes that one must check on many forms that are completed.  :&gt;)<br><br>All my life [It's been long.   :&gt;)], I've been checking AFRICAN-AMERICAN/BLACK/NEGRO/COLORED.  :&gt;)  [The boxes have undergone a metamorphosis.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)]<br><br>NOW that this issue has been raised, imma check a FEW boxes to indicate the I'm \"soma this and soma that!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>So what they gonna do with THAT information??  :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:07:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That child grows up and writes a tell-all book about what it's like growing up Ford.  The book will compete with the one I expect Bridget McCain will write about growing up McCain. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:25:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087410, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:42:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083710, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My first response to this is frustration and annoyance - this tired debate? again? - but I am glad that there are good folks like you, rikyrah, and Ta-Nehisi Coates to deconstruct this editorial's faulty logic. Arana seems to be confusing the ridiculously antiquated one-drop rule with Obama's chosen <i>cultural</i> identification. What is \"racially backward\" is criticizing how he defines his own identity (and I agree that Michelle has a lot to do with this) or to insist that he, and we, behave according to someone else's rules. <br><br>LOL @ <i>WTF do you think Black folk are? </i><br><br>That's what I'm saying...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:18:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Prehaps you do not understand this construct since you are not American born. <br><br>Also, sorry you get grouped with Black folks just because of your complexion. That must suck for you.  Try checking the Hispanic box next time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:29:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "SherriS", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086036, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's why I addressed the lie actual research shows white men prefer brunettes but the media indoctrination continues. Dark hair can connote racial ambiguity so blonde it is as the majority of them are white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:27:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111638, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On November 3rd it was still popular to \"take the out\" as my sister calls it.  You know... claim to be anything but black.  On November 4th, it was honorable to say you voted for a black man.  On November 30th, the backpedaling toward taking the out resumes.  Has anyone else noticed ads featuring black women with white men.  I don't recall seeing that before the election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:18:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "DWS2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 37, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unfortunately, because of the color issue among Black families, that incident with my aunt is probably more commonplace than reported.<br><br>I just hated she stayed with my uncle, bore him 10 kids and he still strayed outside the marriage, which, by the way, was totally shotgun (cause she was not of legal age, even though she looked older than she was), until her beauty faded and she was too worn out to start over with a man who would have loved her for herself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:53:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081968, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4150309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will you give it up already! Geez!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_12:50:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128427, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes they do and I ask why. Why do \"Black\" people always claim individuals. No other group to my knowledge seem to care. I don't remember asian running up and trying to claim Tiger Woods etc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:51:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084558, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That lady is obviously a raving idiot.  Every black person I know is mixed with something.  Besides that , Barack truly is an African American.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_09:00:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never said anything about blue collar workers. You continue to project your version of things. I stand by everything I've said. Black women should know their worth and know how beautiful and desirable and WANTED we are by quality men of all races. If you have a problem with seeing that expressed in advertisements or in practice that's your choice but you don't speak for all of us. We belong to ourselves and live our lives individually. We should be responsible to no one but ourselves. The sooner some BW realize that the better of we'll all be. Maybe Black people will stop putting down girls who have dark skin and nappy hair and so many will not grow up feeling and acting like the mules of the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:24:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4133694, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "creole, oreo, high yellow, passing, nuyorican.... (geechi/gullah - different, but related)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:43:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111732, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You think she's pretty? I don't equate hair color as an automatic validation of beauty.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_18:56:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110238, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, this is nothing new, is it? On a (maybe) more frivolous level, the same thing happened when Vanessa Williams became Miss America. There were lots of \"she doesn't look THAT black\" comments...until those photos were printed in Penthouse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:34:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We claim people because we understand being men without countries.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086193, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow thanks for your reply. It's a vital part of the conversation. Black people of all nationalities have been EVERYWHERE! We just don't know it but the information is out there for those of us seeking knowledge from a position of strength. We're in Iraq too by the way. The population that survived slavery is still stuck back there otherwise our other cousins wouldn't act like they don't know us. Hugo Chavez of all people has no problem acknowledging his Black heritage.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:07:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081843, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why are you hating on Dark Sith's S-Curl? I remember the night of Obama's last debate, it was looking super shiny. It must have been the Olive Oil Sheen. *smirking*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:50:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078753, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Clearly, PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA is Black.  If he were not Black, MSNBC's CHRIS MATTHEWS would not be so comfortable constantly refering to him as \"BARACK\" instead of  \"PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA\" or \"MR. OBAMA,\"  a courtesy, by the way,  afforded to every other president-elect before Mr. Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:40:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "56c87d21a58dccec11453635d0997f6c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No need to even waste the response. White people are going to continue using other non-whites to do their dirty work for them to try to confuse people from recognizing the same old racism. Don't believe the hype. <br><br>It's esp galling for Latinos/Hispanics who have  a complicated ethnicity and usually don't want to admit they have ANY African heritage even when they look \"Blacker\" than the average Black person. So that rejection is about \"us\" being at the bottom of the barrel. If everyone was doing really in well they'd be claiming it for sure. And yes Telemundo and Univision just kill me with them ALWAYS showing the whitest skinned people ever. Even Hollywood does it. <br><br>Did I mention the racism of a lot of Latinos who look down on Black people. Pu-leeze! Doesn't Brazil has the largest Black population outside continental Africa? When do we ever hear about the contributions of Afro-Latinos? And some native Mexicans who are Black? Where was all of this claiming then? <br><br>Besides Barack says he's Black and he has the right to self-determine how he views himself. I also think him being raised by whites was the best thing for him. He chose a regular Black woman as his mate, a woman who would've been passed over by a lot of Black men (whether they were educated/high salaried or not) who would've wanted a white woman just because they have one. Let's be blunt shall we. He also doesn't have this \"I'm a victim of racism poor me for not achieving anything\" mindset either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_04:18:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are few, if any pure African descenadants of slaves in America.  My maternal Grandmothers' family was most likely Cherokee in Middle Tennesee that chose to live as Blacks rather than move to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma).  Her father took his family out there and came back to tennnesee because the people lived in tents.  Her maiden name, Crawford, is a recognized as anglicized Cherokee name.  Look at the Crawofrds you know.  None that I know are dark,<br><br>My Grandfather and his siblings are the likely offspring of a white man and their Black mother.  I write this to note that my personl infomration is aligned with Henry Louis Gates analysis of the semi-random famous sample in his public research.  Race in America is very much cultural and genetic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:09:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikrah,<br><br>Whew!  Was I ever glad when I got to the sentence..you can read the rest of this tripe at...I was like WTF up until then...no rikyrah did NOT write this.<br><br>You are so dead right after that sentence when you commenced to 'breaking it down'<br><br>But I want you to know, that Harold Ford does not have any wavy hair AT ALL, in fact those tightly individually coiled strands (colloquially called naps) on his head are what scream BLACK. & why he keeps that hair closely cropped.<br><br>In terms of why Obama chose Michelle. I offer 2 clues, the first is the one he wrote about in his book Dreams of My Father and mentioned during his historic speech on race in Philly.  He said, 'my grandmother loved me to death yet she was afraid and would look down, when black men passed on the street and that she made remarks which made him cringe'  The second clue is that the parents of his HS prom date refused to let him escort her because she was white, and he had a white girlfriend at Columbia, but eventually saw it would not work, as she could not understand how race impacted him.<br><br>I often wondered how soul searing it had to be for him to know only white faces as the face of love, yet know how his grandmother was fearful of all that he was 'a black male' in our society. How does a developing mind reconcile that? That had to be one helluva cognitive dissonance with loud discordant chords strumming through his soul as he searched to determine what it meant for him.<br><br>I imagined he had to ask, how can I love a white woman who I know, based on my grandmother, will at the very core of her being be fearful of me?  His intelligence would not let him choose a woman and have to doubt whether she truly could be committed to him given that his own grandmother harbored deep racial fears and surely he could not beleive that any person could love him more deeply than she.<br><br>His reason for calling himself black is also somewhat addressed in Dreams for My Father when he says, that he stopped telling people his mother was white, because he realized that he was actually seeking their acceptance on the basis of her race. It was a way for him to coerce them into looking beyond his race yet he realized if that was necessary they were unaccepting of him as he was not his mothers race. Thus he determined to cease telling his mothers race.  Michelle talks about how she nor her mother knew for a long time that his mother was white, because Barack never talked about it.<br><br>I disagree with you about Michelle erasing anything premised on Toots and them not raising him right.<br><br>Rather, I think as Barack said during his run for the US Senate, if I am black when it comes to anything bad, like being stopped by the police or trying to hail a cab...why then should I be anything other than black when being recognized for the GOOD that I do and the achievements I have attained.<br><br>Barack says take my STRENGHTS and emblazon them black for no black male is the sum of the negative stereotypes that society presumes is true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:20:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Call me what you want but don't call me broke!!!....lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:21:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085983, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mexico's second President was a \"black\" man, whose forbears had been brought to Mexico as slaves. <br><br>Vicente Guerrero, a mulatto and Mexico\u2019s 2nd president, was a hero in Mexico\u2019s War of Independence from Spain. The state of Guerrero in Mexico was named in his honor. His grandson, Vicente Riva Palacio y Guerrero, was one of Mexico\u2019s most influential politicians and novelists.<br><br>In addition, one of the most prestigious generals in Mexican\u2019s War of Independence, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Teclo Morelos y Pav\u00f3n, was a mulatto as well.<br><br>Something between 200,000 and 500,000 African slaves were brought to Mexico...<br><br>You would have to look real hard to find any evidence of them today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:07:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ME TOO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092077, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"History will not recoil that only black men could make America rise up and be true to her ideals and Consittuion...don't you see?\"<br><br><br>I have come to believe that black people are the only people in this country capable of forcing America to live up to the ideals she herself put forth.  Every other group will shuck and buck and go along with the program until black people spill their blood and force the system to work the way it's supposed to, then they swoop in and reap the rewards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:52:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078686, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4116235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "kenyaw:  MAJOR CO-SIGN!!     ABSOLUTELY BOTHERED!!<br><br>They ALL betta git ta PRACTICIN'  -    that would be - Mr. President;  YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS,  MR. POTENTATE;  YOUR GRACE; HIS IMMINENCE and \"such as. . . \"  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>As my mom would say when we called out to an ADULT  -  \"You betta put a \"HANDLE ON THAT NAME!\"   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnnnnd, they betta STAND UP!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:31:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110678, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was funny! Esp considering Cherokees owned slaves and tried to deny Cherokee Nation status to thousands of Blacks with a direct Cherokee line.<br><br>Colorstruck = Black on Black racism<br><br>If white people can tout their 'preference' for whiteness above all else and we denounce that, then we need to get real about Black racism and the whole keen features/good/hair/skin tone crap.<br><br>This is why so many of us (particularly browner-skinned girls) have self-esteem issues and it's not coming from whites. White people are not measuring skin shade.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_04:24:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 29, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079608, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have said this before, I'll say it again...blogs have saved my life. That line was completely nauseating. I can't engage people like that face to face because I would be up under the jail.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:10:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083014, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course! That's why I'm side-eyeing this Arana lady.<br><br>Which is all the more reason Obama shouldn't take the Black community for granted. Because we will have his back when everyone else leaves him. We know it's coming, we <i>know</i> it's coming.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:53:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079635, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for the feedback.  Now that we are seeing such a strong representation of Black love (Barack and Michelle), the print media suddenly decides it is time to go interracial?  Okay.  So I guess it's \"fashionable\" to get with the sistas again...<br><br>Heartsandflowers, I totally agree that Black women should keep their options open but the timing of these ads and the fact that I have only seen ads with White men with Black women makes me suspicious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:33:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "DWS2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4082007, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michelle Obama's family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation<br><br>By Dahleen Glanton and Stacy St. Clair | Tribune Reporters<br>    December 1, 2008<br><br>A slave cabin at the Friendfield Plantation<br><br>Five cabins remain today of the row of shacks that lined the dirt road once known as Slave Street on a South Carolina plantation. Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. (Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / November 22, 2008)<br><br>  <i><br><br>GEORGETOWN, S.C.\u2014Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation.<br><br>More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their descendants remained here for more than a century after the Civil War. The last tenants abandoned the hovels about three decades ago, and even they would have struggled to imagine a distant daughter of the plantation one day calling the White House home.<br><br>But a historical line can be drawn from these Low Country cabins to Michelle Obama, charting an American family's improbable journey through slavery, segregation, the civil rights movement and a historic presidential election.<br><br>Their documented passage begins with Jim Robinson, Obama's great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850 and lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. Records show he remained on the estate after the war, working as a sharecropper and living in the old slave quarters with his wife, Louiser, and their children. He could neither read nor write, according to the 1880 census.<br><br>      Video<br><br>Related links<br><br>    *<br>      Slave ancestors Slave ancestors Photos<br>    *<br><br>      Barack Obama photos:<br><br><br><br><br><br>      Want to see even more? Click here<br>      Obama Watch: Get the latest Obama news<br>    *<br>      Barack Obama Watch<br>      Road to the White House<br>      Photos | Video | Biography | Chicago tour<br>      Countdown to Inauguration:<br>      50 days, 00 hours, 52 minutes, 05 seconds.<br>    *<br>      Following the President-elect's run Video<br><br>Robinson would be the last illiterate branch of Michelle Obama's family tree.<br><br>Census records show each generation of Robinsons became more educated than the last, with Michelle Obama eventually earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Her older brother, Craig, also received an Ivy League education...</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama-slavery-01-dec01%2C0%2C485324.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ob...</a><br><br>So... Obama may have never been connected to American slavery...<br><br>But his children are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:11:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086320": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, I agree - Barak Obama is not black.   On the DNA level, he is half  black African and<br>half American ( white European ancestry).   Culturally, he was raised in a white family -<br>so he  was not brought up with Kenyan culture or language.   In Hawaii, he was surrounded by the mutltiethnic culture that is Hawaii.    He also spent some time as a child in  Indonesia.     No, Barak Obama is definitely not black.   Robert De Niro isnt black just because he has a black wife and children who have skin like their mother.   Ditto, Barak<br>Obama - MIchelle Obama and their children , dont make Barak Obama black.<br><br>He is the product of his upbringing  - almost none of which is African American.<br><br>He is a MAN, lets leave it at that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:59:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do you know what Sickle Cell Anemia is?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:08:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086144, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are so wrong for that.   SO. WRONG.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:43:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087410, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "isonprize:<br><br>CLARITY/LOGIC -  I'm a simple person.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Back- at-choo!!   :&gt;)<br><br>S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G the \"Oxygen Mask\" to you!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:50:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111796, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know he's hoping for children as white as snow with hair that blows in the wind, you know, the accidental black children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_04:30:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079670, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4089437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow! No CPL we need to talk about the damage to Black women that's been perpetrated by US to each other. The assault on BW starts early. We don't necessarily know of the racism practiced by whites but we can ALL relate to the racism by Blacks with all that nonsense. And then people say they can't figure out why the kids always choose the white doll! Add that to a bunch of fatherless kids and we can see why so many are so destructive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:19:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081569, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The big reason I feel we are dealing with this is because white folks want to lay claim to Barack!  They want to be recognized as being part of the greatness that he is. They are refusing to let him be black like KING.  <br><br>History will not recoil that only black men could make America rise up and be true to her ideals and Consittuion...don't you see?  white folks had something to do with this awesome brilliant man with his staggering leadership and political skills.<br><br>He ain't just black you see...he is white too...like them...and they say it with PRIDE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:26:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078624, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Letting Black women know they are appealing to all types of men and to keep their options open.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_04:33:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079634, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey CPL, it looks like there's a mini-discussion on interracial dating going on within the \"Arana Needs to Sit-Down Somewhere\" discussion, lol!<br><br>My raised eyebrow was at the fact that interracial coupling regarding Black women tends to always be with White men in these ads. Why not Black women and Latino men? Or Black women and Asian-American men, in fact, that would make more of an impact, my Asian-American male friends and I have the same conversations when it comes to interracial dating, they <b>understand</b>, trust that! The patriarchy in America isn\u2019t \u201cMen are the standard\u201d, it is \u201c<i>White</i> men are the standard\u201d, Lorde\u2019s mythical norm.<br><br>I've traveled extensively in Europe, so I know what you mean. I've gotten a lot of love from men in France, England and Scotland (I must admit, that one surprised me), but Italian men are a whole 'nother story! I remember feeling like the second coming of womanhood the way they were carrying on, lol! I have heard it's similar in Greece, but I've never been there, so I guess I'll see. I'm headed to Hungary next summer, so I'll have to see how Eastern Europe compares to Western Europe.<br><br>And that's when it came to me, I'm not feeling that love here in America. I agree with you in that while Black men and Black women are held to different standards when it comes to interracial dating, it's because we're held to different standards in almost every other area in terms of our humanity and desirability. All women are objectified in American culture, but Black women tend to be positioned at the lowest rank, and even then, it's as a toy and caricature of who we are in all our complexities.<br><br>I admit when I see Black men with White women, usually I ignore them. But if it's a sista, I'm giving her a \"You go GURL!\" smile or head nod.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:27:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4132981, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "HAHA. How do you know he has credit?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:46:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135624, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes i agree.  thank you for link.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_06:22:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "zackboston", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079106, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Both of my great grands were Cherokee but that makes us 1/8 and so noooo go! Cherokees owned slaves after all and not exactly looking to acknowledge any Black cousins!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:01:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083935, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes...(I claim black ) my 9 year old daughter told me that \"black\" is everything mixed together...out of the mouth of babes...lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:35:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084558, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know and you know but does he? Haha! It would be cosmic retribution except I'd feel bad for the kid to have him for a dad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:11:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081603, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And that knowledge is exactly why doctors want to know your background, because it could help with a diagnosis.  A Nordic patient is less likely to have sickle-cell.  An Ashkenazi Jew or a Cajun is more likely to get Tay-Sachs.  It's worth the doctor's time of day to ask their patients their race depending on symptoms because race and ethnicity are risk factors that describe the likelihood of certain issues possibly lurking in your gene pool that could be there because of the self-identification and same-race coupling in one's family tree.  Racial classifiers are about more than just phenotype and racism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:26:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091651, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4132981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think BW feel if they date outside the race, it is seen as having given up on the brothas, and selling out.  I've seen BLACK MEN sell out faster when THEY date outside the race than I have BLACK WOMEN.<br><br>I'm all for keeping my options open - spend time outside this country, and you see for yourself; AMERICA is the only country that has problems seeing interracial couples as just THAT - COUPLING.<br><br>And Brothas in Europe look at sistas in similar fashion as Brothas in the States; no real difference.<br><br>I was more disgusted with that VOGUE cover featuring LeBron James with that \"ape\" looking smile on his face with Heidi Klum - however, Heidi looked comfortable with it because she's married to Seal.<br><br>And the way Heidi talks about Seal, you would think she just discovered the male sex, PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:14:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083532, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Look Sepia, I'm not sure whether you're male or female though I have an idea of what situation I'm dealing with because you object so soundly to seeing a Black woman with a white male, but have yet to mention the preponderance and historical precedent of Black men choosing whiter-skinned women since Emancipation, but I study history. I don't operate from the contract of Black women belonging to Black men and object to the familiarity of complete strangers acting like they own women simply due to skin shade. Not when so many of my darker sisters are made to be objects of ridicule by other BLACK PEOPLE for an uncontrollable circumstance of birth. <br><br>We are always so quick to point to racism from whites but never acknowledge the Black on Black crimes that we've committed against each other. Look how Michelle Obama was treated and how some Black men have had the nerve to imply that Barack could've 'done better'. Has it not dawned on you the appeal a lot of us had for Barack was because of Michelle? Which only speaks of the fact that so many of us have been denigrated. <br><br>WHY DON\"T YOU FOCUS ON THAT INSTEAD? Protecting and uplifting Black women and being your best instead of trying to argue symantics because YOU FEEL THREATENED. We don't know each other and if you were being all you could be you would've let this go a long time ago. I could care less about your protests and requests for conditions. <br><br>My definition of a quality man is mine and mine alone. Every woman is different. Why don't YOU DEFINE WHAT A QUALITY BLACK MAN IS? But if you are really interested in getting some real knowledge and a reality check you are free to check out wonderful teaching essays from <a href=\"http://blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com</a> and <a href=\"http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com</a> <br><br>Otherwise this entire conversation is moot and BS because you're just pissed off to hear about women making their own choices that go against your narrow little world!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:28:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4133857, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4440186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wrong, Juana. Barack has brothers and another sister.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-16_19:46:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fea6d7dd575d826f15c611519273816", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4148566, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True dat but between the Grammys, Emmys, platimum records, and starring roles in TV and movies it's safe to say Ms. Williams got the last laugh on these mofos.  In fact, in recent years Miss America tried to reclaim her and get her to come back as a judge and she pretty much told them to kiss her <i>black</i> ass.<br><br>LMAO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:13:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081586, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I would have, too.  Considering the trash that wins the pagents and then we find out they're drunks or drug addicts and are still allowed to keep their crowns, I don't blame Vanessa.<br><br>Plus, she turned out to be a damned fine actress and singer (another candidate for who could have played Etta James in Cadillac Blues).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:57:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083835, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I, for one, really don't care how one person defines another person's identity. It's totally irrelevant.<br><br>That writer wants attention. Looks like he's getting it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:48:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL: I'm going to London in March...Now which guys where find us attractive? I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:25:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085332, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Best post on this blog!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_21:32:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091902, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4148566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope the members of this forum are not supporting Obama BECAUSE he is half<br>African and  supposedly is \"black.\"  If so, then you have nothing in common with him.<br>I presume our President Elect loved his mother and grandparents because of who they were not what their race was. ''<br><br>And why let US laws define you?   Hispanics dont and will not ever.   <br>We define ourselves, thats why Mariano Rivera is Hispanic,<br>So, the redneck racist matter?   Sad, sad- that you allow that<br>segment of our society (gulp) even ruffle a hair on your head.  <br><br>Barak Obama  has no brothers, only a sister.    <br><br>Luckily for him, it doesnt matter to her what he looks like.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_11:55:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4133598, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, because you can't be raised in a multicultural society and be \"black.\"  You have to be raised in a ghetto holding your nuts, break dancing and rapping and rolling your neck to be black.[/eyeroll]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:32:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086320, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that there is something wrong with calling himself \"Black\" in the first place. He is directly linked to two different ethnic groups. I would be offended if I was his mother or father and chose to claim one. Also, I doubt that \"White\" people are trying to claim Obama. They have no reason to. They are also wedded to this notion that he is the first \"Black\" president. The only people I think that are trying to claim Obama are some \"Black\" people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:37:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 25, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083204, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can you not see the irony in following your penultimate sentence with your last one?  Really.  Can you not see it?  *Shrug* Maybe you can't.  Okay here goes.  You say that prejudices are rampant in this forum.  Then you say that mixed heritage seems to make a better product.  If that ain't a prejudiced statement and-a-half!  You just got finished maligning people with more homogeneous racial heritage as less healthy, less smart, and genetically inferior.  Ever heard of eugenics?  Yes, you're attempting to turn it on its head, but the logic is as specious, offensive, and prejudicial as eugenics ever was.  A broad gene pool is a good thing, yes, but that isn't indicative that, in particular, a multi-racial gene pool is the pinnacle of genetic success.  It's just one possibility of a broad gene pool.<br><br>And by the way, people who refer themselves by nationality tend to do so because they are outside of their home nation.  No wonder a South African might call themselves South African upon coming to America.  But at home, they might go by Afrikan, or black, or colored, or Afrikaaner, or Zulu.  It's all in the context.  <br><br>No one here is attempting to say that Barack Obama has no European ancestry.  Neither is Obama himself.  When he calls himself black, he's just getting in where he feels he fits in.  If he likes it, I love it.  You have an intolerance problem because you are unable to allow him to self-identify.  He and we are not the ones with the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:55:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128427, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4115082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town,do you think Fiona gets it now that she's been given multiple choice?  <br><br>Fiona,check -a-c and call it a day, honey.<br><br>LOL @ feet up on the Oval Office desk knocking back a 40...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:12:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112734, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4159627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Torturing ourselves...lol!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:37:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079106, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I dunno we claim Solanges child and Vanessa Williams.....oh yeah \"they black too'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_21:16:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091029, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4148879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, because the people who frequent this board are so shallow, shortsided and completely lacking intelligence that there is absolutely no way that they could have supported Obama because of his stands on the issues, and because he was truly the best candidate to get this country out of the toilet.<br><br>Whatever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_12:12:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4148566, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You not lying, JunePearl.  In the UK, those Brit white guys make no hesitation in letting it be known how desirable they find us, and not because of the sexual thing, either.  They're just into us as women, which I found refreshing in watching the Black Brit guys compete with white Brit guys for the attentions of Black Women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:55:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083182, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFLMAO...his high-yellowness didn't protect him from those \"Harold, Call Me\" ads Bob Corker ran on his ass in defeating him for that Senate Seat.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:59:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081993, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Found this in the comments section over at Ta-Nehisi Coates:<br><br><i>When Malcolm X gave a lecture in Ghana, he was asked by a listener why he called himself black, since he was so light skinned than in Ghana he would be considered white. Malik responded: \u201cAt home, that is the place I was born, I\u2019ve been called by Whites a yellow nigger, a light-skinned nigger, a red uppity nigger, a fair-skinned seditious nigger, but never until now have I been called a White man. I mean, Whites, who should know their own have never made the mistake of overlooking my African blood.\u201d<br><br><br>Posted by Chris Van Dyke<br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_01:03:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In the several hundred articles that I've read over the election cycle, I cannot begin to fathom how many times I've come across the following phrase: \"Barack Obama, a son born to his Kenyan father and his white mother from Kansas...\" The very fact that Obama or his campaign had to repeat this phrase ad nauseaum doesn't signify that we've entered a post-racial or race transcendent society. Rather it simply confirms that whites were unwilling to accept him unless there was a redeemable quality about him: his white mother from Midwestern USA.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_01:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Everyone who fits into the ideal of what is considered \"Black\" is claimed not everyone that looks \"Black\" I think that if Obama was very light with blue eyes and blondish colored hair people would not be so quick to claim him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:26:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087348, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "oh no you didn't just commandeer one of my longheld beliefs (LOL):<br><br>that Black folk are the TRUEST Americans, because WE are the ones who have FOUGHT FOR this country to live up to its ideals. To put practice behind the words.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:33:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078686, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen Miranda.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:18:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111655, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b><i>A lot of BW want to continue the indoctrination of focusing exclusively on BM to their detriment and will be left behind.</b></i><br><br>Well heartsandflowers that's only if you are of the belief that dating white men is the solution to whatever problem you perceive BW are having in their romantic lives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:05:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091235, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What?  you haven't seen the liquor and cigarette ads?   Newport?  Courvoisier?     They all have black men and women....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:50:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4090194, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4119198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh Town...<br><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>why do you come and drop the truth like that?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:12:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112577, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sheeewd... He should have found that out when they told him to go eat that chicken and watermelon comment (collard greens or somethin)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:59:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087299, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Or the green-eyed, wavy-haired Ford, Jr.?</i><br><br>They would have picked Ford, because he's high-yella with green eyes, but if he doesn't have that texturizer on his naps, the naps would give him away as a brotha.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:34:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091402": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I am not mistaken, Juana is the same person who  says she \"half heartedly\" voted for Obama and claimed many Latinos, like her, felt the same way about Obama.<br><br>Go figure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:48:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087011, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't read your post before I made mine down below. But basically: ditto!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:33:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4082007, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is funny like Marcus Garvey once said the idea of race is one of convenience for the White man.When looking at ancient civilizations the same people who would be called nigger,or discriminated against in this society are considered White or non Black to discredit African people of any achievement.This is happening with Obama.He is a Black man but because he does something great all these people are trying to claim him.If he was a killer  OR RAPIST DO YOU THINK WHITE PEOPLE WOULD CARE IF HIS MOTHER WAS WHITE?NO HE WOULD BE JUST ANOTHER DARKIE THAT WHITE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NO USE FOR.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:35:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "kalagenesis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh shit! Dark Sith!  Hee,hee!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:01:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112761, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well the guy was white actually but it was very unsightly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:33:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135352, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4160683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We can all have and suffer from some form of it. The key is recognizing it and then deciding to get past it. Calling it institutional racism removes a certain level of responsibility and has less of an impact. I'm aware of where it stems from and none of us are immune from it. White people are so quick to deny they see race. It's this false sense of liberals' hipster racism under the guise of being PC. But why do you feel the need to try to correct people in how they use terminology and form their thoughts on a subject? That in and of itself comes across a bit condescending and can derail getting to core issues to dismantle, discuss and resolve them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:48:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4159469, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4119725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But, Obama IS connected to American slavery.......his White side were SLAVE OWNERS<br><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>I thought that was frigging hilarious when it was revealed. <br><br>Can't escape American's ORIGINAL SIN, no matter where you go...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:16:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083810, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HAHA does she even want kids?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:33:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135417, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As for whites wanting to claim Barack:<br><br>They will claim him until he puts a foot wrong; then he gets slung under the bus with every other Black person.<br><br>And Marie Arana has issues - both with her own ethnic identity and everyone else's.  She would do well to address her OWN issues before trying to tell people what constitutes being Black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:36:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the reason for that leniency you mention is because sistas get it with BOTH BARRELS.  Either we're oversexed or sexless; angry or passive; mammy figure or the maid.  We seem not to be able to catch a well-earned break.<br><br>My own experience is that BROTHAS will talk major shyt when they see BWs with non-Black men, and have nerve enough to upbraid US for dating outside the race, even with their white girl on their arm.<br><br>I think we have unique experiences, regarding this, but I have yet to date outside my race - doesn't mean I'm not giving it strong consideration because in the end, I want a man who knows how to honor, treat and respect women; who knows how to be responsible for himself, and that I am not responsible for making him happy - it is about how our relationship enhances and enriches our lives in joint fashion.  Now, if that quality man comes in a package that is not of the same race as my own, but comes in unconditional fashion, who's going to turn their back on that in order to be PC?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:01:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4134124, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As a person whose father is Afro-Cuban, let me just say this: The Hispanic community is like 50 to 70 years behind us on the color thang. All the actors on the novelas send a message that everyone is Spainard or looks that way. America only thinks Hispanics are mestizo and look like J-LO. Sigh...<br><br>Yes, yes my father has traced his family to West Africa as well as Sephardic Jews on the Iberian Peninsula, but he called himself BLACK. His choice. Period.<br><br>Growing up, my father and grandmother taught me about many black Cubans. (If she wasn't the absolute bomb, the Hispanic community would never claim Celia Cruz!)<br><br>But would you believe it wasn't until last year that I learned of the blacks in Mexico??? How ignorant I felt. Then I ran to tell my Mexican co-worker...he didn't know of them either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:07:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080696, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Spirit, sounds like your sister settled for an unavailable BM like my aunt settled for staying with her half-White/Black husband who saddled her with 10 kids, and then proceeded to father an additional nine kids with three other women outside the marriage.<br><br>I think that BW feel any BM is better than no BM AT ALL, and I'm not buying it.  I'm not into sharing and when Audrey Chapman wrote that book about sistas settling for sharing married Brothas instead of broadening their horizons, I wanted to throw up because Dr. Chapman was appearing to advocate for sistas being mistresses to another sista's husband.<br><br>All I saw was the brotha got benefits; two women he could screw on the regular and one he didn't have to commit to.<br><br>I think BW are royalty and we deserve to be treated as such; therefore, when we hold ourselves out as queens, our Prince will step to us, and if he's in another flavor, you will know he's stepping correct.<br><br>I'd like a quality brotha, but I am willing to wait for a quality MAN.  PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:34:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121406, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   I'm  **bowing down**  at YOUR ANALYSIS!   WHEW!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>  THANK YOU!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Let me know when I may ARISE!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:38:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "race is problematic even in health settings.  There have been cases of patients perceived (by themselves and others) as white who have been diagnosed with sickle cell.  The problem with race in health is becoming an increasing problem, there are some drugs that were tested and found effective for black american populations BUT does that mean it will be effective in black people who aren't american?  And going back to sickle cell, its not a homogenous disease there are various abnormal traits that are classified as sickle cell; these same traits produce differences as far as disease severity but occur within racial categories (e.g. black)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:05:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "NinaG", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092019, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a blatant admission of our power.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:53:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079681, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't wait to see how Black he is when he pisses too many white folk off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:38:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\"I didn't hear anyone say, \"Well, he's not black, he's biracial.\"</i><br><br>I just had to bring that back to the FRONT!! We all know who it is that's really gonna have Obama's back when he makes an unpopular decision.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:31:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084624, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084414": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ijf:  Hey!   :&gt;) <br><br>Annnnnnd, IFF they happen to find something in my bag which they THINK that I shop-lifted, I'm only going ta give back <b>HALF</b> of it!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:57:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084115, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But not every white person. I think that  to a certain extent the article was intended for the white   audience. Lets  remember that the media always fail to point  out that an overwhelming number of blacks in the western hemisphere have  white and/or Native American ancestors.    Not a lot of white people know that there has been a lot racial mixing that makes race more complicated than what is commonly believed. I think she could have discussed this issue without saying Obama is not black. Her statement is a huge distraction.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:42:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4082219, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't forget \"Is Obama Black enough?\", the meme the MSM was pushing early in the primaries.<br>Yes he is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:57:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083710, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town,<br><br>you said this months ago, about why every other group needed to be on OBama's train. Black folk do all the heavy lifting, working, being the battering ram on the door, and after the door's busted down, then EVERYBODY ELSE wants to clamor on in, knowing damn well, they didn't lift shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_01:10:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079681, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So you want doctors to stop identifying us by race also? That might be problematic for a number of reasons.<br><br>The problem though, doesn't seem to be Barack's or anyone else's...it seems to be yours. Why does it concern you if Barack Obama identifies himself as \"black\"? How does it harm you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:30:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083767, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Black\" people will understand exactly where Michelle was coming from:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1307497%2CCST-NWS-mobama01.article\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/130...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Double EWWW, because he really has no excuse; he can get his grill hooked up on credit.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:35:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135594, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "black is what black is...it's more than a complexion, it's a cultural identity. i'd much rather have a conversation about the talented tenth black folks going to the White House....since neither Barack and Michelle grew up in those kinds of upper class black families. I think that's pretty interesting and will be interesting as to how that will play out with Barack's black, non-biracial, base. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:37:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5540471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since we all know where Guyana is located on the map, do you really not get that you are brown because your ancestors came from Africa??  More Africans landed in South America than North America.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-25_20:49:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "SherriS", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4129341, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4159692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"His first child with Snowflake might come out looking like Wesley Snipes because of a throwback gene, and it doesn't necessarily have to come from his side of the clan, either.\"<br><br>Laughing my ass off. He will then drop her like a hot potato.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081603, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town,<br><br>ouch!<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:49:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112761, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And you're right about the baggy pants deal among the young Black Brits; I was actually surprised to kind of see a few saggy drawers on the white teens there, but that's from watching MTV...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4117683, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I remember that one!! The main reason I remember that one is because the first time I saw it, I was watching tv with my friends Tim (he's Korean-American), and we were like \"Hey, look at that! I've never seen that combo before! etc.\", and then there was an awkward moment, LOL!!! But it's all good, so yeah, I remember that commercial....life, I tell ya!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:37:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4132894, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I remember it, and she needs to stop it too.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_21:06:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4138377, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I check Black if they do not ask for ethnicity.<br><br>Sicle Cell Anemia is prevalent in Africa, the Mediterranean, India and the Middle East not just \"Black\" People.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:02:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086827, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that if Obama was very light with blue eyes and blondish colored hair his name would be Harold Ford, Jr.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:47:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091029, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4088024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Elsewhere in the Americas? I suggest a visit to New Orleans or D.C. for a little schooling in just how finely we here in the USofA can differentiate skin tone and hair quality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:15:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "pluky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mr. Obama, is an African American.  He is more African American than any of us Black People in America today.  His father is African and his mother is American (her ethnic make up is unimportant).  Listen Ana, we didn't participate in the rulings that stated if a person had 1/3 African blood, he/she was Black.  To the people who matter is this country (not you hispanics) he is a Black Man, that's why every redneck racist in the backwoods is gunning for the brotha.  Get it right!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:44:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ea50b60737bea43d95ae5f2a8284890", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I find it sad that some feel as if the heavy lifting has only been done by blacks. I do feel that until America treated the black population with the respect and esteem it so richly deserves, there would be no real movement at all.\"<br><br>I'm glad you said this. Sometimes I think people, especially immigrants don't realize that blacks in the country have taken a lot of the hits to make it easier for a lot of people who have been marginalized. But I do relaize many have done heavy lifting for the cause. <br>Cesar Chavez comes to mind...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:14:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080601, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4117217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "spirit:  Then I'll protest on the basis of \"RACIAL DISCRIMINATION!\"   :&gt;)<br><br>They won't want that in the HEADLINES!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:41:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110311, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Out of curiousity....how do you describe yourself?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:59:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083337, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Admiral:  SPEAK!!!  :&gt;)  CO-SIGN!!  :&gt;)<br><br><br><i>I didn't hear anyone say, \"Well, he's not black, he's biracial.\"</i><br><br>ORRRRR- that he heard the Rev's statements with ONLY  <b>ONE EAR</b><br>and <b>ONE HALF of his BRAIN</b>    :&gt;)<br><br>He WAS considered ALL BLACK by people making that statement.<br><br>WHEW!!!  :&gt;)   **shakin' my head**", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:00:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084624, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>They will claim him until he puts a foot wrong; then he gets slung under the bus with every other Black person.</i><br><br>You know that, CPL.<br><br>I know that, CPL.<br><br>And, I know Barack knows it too.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:44:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078767, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4160748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Harold's one Negro I don't think we will be as forgiving as we have with other self-haters.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:53:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4159692, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The guys with a few pounds in their pocket, H&F, will keep their teeth up and such, but the average working \"bloke\" can't be bothered when his teeth fall out, and that bothers ME.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:17:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4117683, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree. I would rather be called African than Black!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:38:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085064, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "glory: <br><br><br> HEY!  :&gt;)   TEACH!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:48:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092019, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe most whites see only white or black, but  Jews - I'm one - pretty much always try to notice  if someone's MOT (Member Of the Tribe i.e. Jewish.) And my Italian American friends notice if someone's a paisan, and I've learned to also. <br><br> I'm always asking, am I white or Jewish? And the answer depends totally on context. It's been my experience that I feel most  awkwardly Jewish when I'm around WASPs , particularly if they are dominant in a local population, because I feel so Other. Particularly because I grew up in a time of quotas and was very aware of where we were welcome and where we were not.<br><br>On a day to day basis, yeah, I'm white. Pasty even.  But I notice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:57:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "313c8f108b43104806fa6f1472af3f83", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087225, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROTFLMAO!!!  islandgirl550, cause you don't have no room in your samsonite for a set-o-dentures!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:00:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091810, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree -  we sistas can be uglier to one another than cats in an alleyway.  I think its more \"Willie Lynch\" syndrome than whites actually perpetuating it themselves.  All they have to do is plant the seed of racism and sure as hell, some self-hating Negro comes along and waters it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4089437, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think we're on the same page. This HAS been bothering me  A LOT because they could not let the victory go down 30 days before they started this BS. Then have the nerve to outright say \"why would he want to do that'? I really want somebody to be asked on spot to finish that sentence. Tell us what is so bad about being black and let their true selves be revealed.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:06:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083149, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that there is something wrong with him choosing one over the other if he is only doing so because society dictates that he identify with one. All I am sating is if I have a child with someone outside my race, I would hope that they identify as both not just one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:09:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083710, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>if I am black when it comes to anything bad, like being stopped by the police or trying to hail a cab...why then should I be anything other than black when being recognized for the GOOD that I do and the achievements I have attained.</i> <br><br>Yes, exactly! Whiterosebuddy - do you (or anyone else) remember when and where he made this remark? I'm assuming it was during an interview or in one of his books? If so, I'd love to see the full exchange...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_22:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078650, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GLH, I can see the store clerks now, one of them following you around the jewelry counter and the another asking you if you want a makeover  LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:49:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4117217, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read awhile ago that there is a subset of Korean-Mexican people living in Mexico. A small community, but there nontheless. I've been reading a lot about Blackness in Latin nations, Latin-American culture, trust, with this whole Obama thing, they are doing their darndest to catch up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081843, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So that's the new criteria, eh? I know for a fact that I had several white great grands and great-great grands in my family tree, so I think from this day forward I will only refer to myself as biracial.  I'm sure the salespeople that follow me around will understand once I explain this to them.<br><br>&lt;/snark&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:47:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who is this person to tell Barack Obama how he should define himself?  And, I mean, he looks like a black person (if this is coming out wrong I'll take my licks, don't hold back). I'm sure that the people around him, whether in a positive manner or a negative manner, related to him as a black person. <br><br>Didn't this author recently write another stupid article about race? Her name rings bells for me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:08:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b45f45c3d16eaa32e1783c1d1798a893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They did call him dubb-yah though....lol   \"W\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:43:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110678, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did you not see that afro that he used to rock....lol that's when I knew he was a brother. And check out that dap whenever he exits his car...He got that swagg. \" He Black\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:30:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am Guyanese. I hate using Black because it is a racist society construct that says nothing about who I am and so is labeling myself Guyanese to some extent. Black is not in my genes. My color is dark chocolate brought about by melanin. I check the \"black\" box unless they ask for ethnicity. I just don't think one should choose to identify with \"Black\" or label themselves \"Black\" simply because \"White\" people do and view you as such. I hope for the day when racial categories will be a thing of the past.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:42:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084450, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "pretty is just a figure of speech in this case.  You know white folks equate pretty with blond.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:15:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111408, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"White people are not measuring skin shade.\"<br><br>So true. My white friends cannot see the skin shade difference that I can see. Maybe it's in their programming. But as Q-Tip once said, \"Black is Black.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:22:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080710, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118875": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ugh you had to mention that movie! I am soooo sick of Beyonce trying to force a movie career on us. She can't act. The end!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:51:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085375, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Don\u2019t none of these folks look like present day West Africans.<br><br>Look at West Africans.<br><br>Now, look at the range of colors amongst the Black community here in America.\"<br><br>I know this isn't the focus of the post, but this statement really bothers me.  West Africans are a range of colors as well, some of it due to \"mixing\" with Europeans.  I'm sick of hearing Black Americans telling me that I don't look African...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:13:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "NinaG", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah that time is coming...then they are gonna still judge you by how brown you are and how kinky yo hair is...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_21:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086036, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah, I think that that this line said it all:<br><br>\"When White folks claim bi-racial Pookey that just robbed the liquor store and shot 3 people, then I\u2019ll know it\u2019s not just about trying to divorce Obama from the Black community.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:12:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfe3b70e4a2584c6a35dbecb509a50c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are.\"<br><br>And so you should take your own advice and let Barack Obama be black, since that's how he wants to refer to himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:40:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"claim him\"?? LOL.........look, we didn't draft President-elect Obama - we didn't cash in a ticket for him. Contrary to popular belief, \"we\" don't get to make the choice on who is or isn't a black person, and neither do you. Barack Obama is a proud black man. HE states unequivocally that he is a proud BLACK MAN. Get over your own anxieties about it - don't project that complex on the rest of us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091029, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4160808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Correction noted, thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_23:57:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4139485, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are.</i><br><br>Obama has made it clear on numerous occasions that he chooses to self-identify as black, so it seems to me that he is proving your point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL, your family history is SOOOO INTERESTING!!! <br><br>When is the book coming out???? I would love to read more. My Cuban granny had enough with my cheating grandfather and cut his ear off with a Machete. Maybe I need to write a book too!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:26:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081569, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree to disagree Fiona.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:17:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091029, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4137950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks....very well said!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:15:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112242, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do any of y'all remember the mess Beyonce caught when she kept referring to herself as Creole? Or when she told Latina magazine that she wishes she could have been Latina?<br><br>Oh, and the British West Indies are not immune to this either. Don't even get me started...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4134749, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amen to about 99% of what you said:<br><br>the only thing that struck me and leads me to my point was when you said that Barack doesn't even look Bi-racial.<br><br>That's what it boils down to: what we see.  As far as I'm concerned, I am not mixed (i.e. I have two black parents from two black parents of their own.  Now where it goes from there, I don't know).  However, people have always insinuated that I was mixed or biracial, much to the chagrin of my mother, because I have hazel eyes and VERY curly hair.<br><br>Barack Obama could go the Tiger Woods route and say that he's not black, he is the culmination of the mixing of many races of his parents. BUT when the world looks at him, he has striking African features so they will associate him with that color - no matter how small the percentage of black he may be.<br><br>Instead, Obama has chosen to associate with the color that he is most readily identifiable as (and seems to have the least connection to insofar as his father is concerned).  If he had decided to say clearly that he was not black and that he was white because he is half white and raised by his white mother, I HIGHLY doubt that the white community would welcome him with open arms.<br><br>I mean, like you mentioned before, I cannot take comments on race and race mixing too serious from someone not inside the fence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Miss_Me", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I completely agree with the article that the female wrote. Barack Obama is not \"Black\". He is bi-ethnic and Bi-cultural. Why do African American hold onto a term (Black) which mean nothing and is rooted in racism. Would you claim a dark skinned Vietnamese as Black what about a every light jewish female with nappy hair. No you would not!! All of the above posters are trapped in the idea that one drop of \"Black\" blood means that you are Black. A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are. This need to claim Obama as \"Black\" when his family and history in no real way is similar to any other \"Black\" person is America is beyond me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:13:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 48, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My great great grandmother was a full blood Cherokee Indian......hey! why do I have these damn college loans to pay back then! My education should have been FREE! And I want in on my casino money too!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:21:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b></i>No I said quality men you have been focused on white men because you have a problem with it.</i></b><br><br>The focus has been on white men because the initial post was about the sudden surge of BW-WM couplings, to which you said it was simply showing black women that we have \"options\". IMO, your posts were also implying that if black women start dating interracially, it would solve their relationship problems, which is simply untrue. <br><br>I do agree that quality is important and BW should look for men from all backgrounds, including black men with blue collar backgrounds, but when you suggest that to some sistas they look upon it as \"settling\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:50:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111718, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hopefully, Barack will not have to have his Michael Jackson/OJ/Michael Jordan lesson from this.  At least he's declared himself to be a Black Man, while Jackson, Jordan and OJ ran from being Black as fast as they could and they still couldn't get away.<br><br>We stood by Michael Jackson until that second allegation of child molestation. The only reason we did was that first kid got fat paid to drop the charges and we smelled something foul.  But a second allegation ten years later?  I wrote Michael off after the first one because I believed if he wasn't guilty, he shouldn't have paid the money and fought those parents in court.  He caved and I got suspicious then and there.<br><br>We stood by OJ's dumb ass when he was acquitted of killing his white ex-wife, only to watch that fool trash his freedom because he thought he was above retrieving his Heisman Trophy and other artifacts in the proper way. Now his black ass is prison bound - he'd better not drop the soap.<br><br>We stood by Michael Jordan as the allegations of his heavy gambling and his cheating on Juanita became public knowledge that tarnished his \"good guy\" image.  We watched him pay money to his mistresses not to rat his ass out - and one of them had a history of purposely getting preggers by pro-athletes so she'd have a damned mealticket for the next 20 years; but God help a sista if she gets pregger by a pro athlete because she has to take his ass to court, submit to DNA testing before the fool gives her a red nickel.<br><br>And what did supporting them going through their crisis get the Black Community as a WHOLE?  Did they re-embrace US; start giving back to our Communities?  HELL, NO; they ran from US...AGAIN. Earning the Black Community a large allegation that we're willing to give the bad actors in our race a free pass because they're African-American - which is an allegation I've never bought into.<br><br>I think we all hope Obama won't take the Black Community for granted; unlike these characters I've named, I have no doubt if this brotha takes us for granted, he does so at his own peril and we will let him feel the sting of erroneous thinking very early in the game.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:02:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079689, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4114243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "h&fs,being snarky here!  :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:03:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111408, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've seen that commercial. IKEA is quick to have the multi-ethnic families, but they make sure to have the white families, too. I don't recall seeing them air a commercial with a black family. Hmm.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:11:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4132894, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda,<br><br>You highlighted the exact lines that I found so sickening. Thank you!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4082600, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "didn't you bring this up before?<br><br>I asked you then, I think, to begin the conversation. Give us a starting point. I'm game, but I need to get a feel of where you're coming from in this  conversation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:37:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085027, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4085064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><br><br><blockquote><br><b>We Hispanic Americans ...</a><br><br></blockquote><br><br>Hispanic = <b>His-pan-ic</b> |hi\u02c8spanik|<br>adjective<br>of or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, esp. those of Latin America.<br>\u2022 of or relating to Spanish-speaking people or their culture, esp. in the U.S.<br><br>Where dark skinned people, and native-americans fit in that?<br></blockquote><br><br><br>I NEVER feel good being called black. I think people feels comfortable in being called that because they despise being called an african.<br><br>Damn i am an African, it is a race, NOT a political or social construction as black hispanic, white, yellow ARE.</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:40:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But even Harold was TOO BLACK when they found out his ass loved white women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:29:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078753, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They kill me with the \"not really black\" assigned to any & all who do not fit neatly into the stereotype. It's easier with Barack, that's all.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:10:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078758, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh Noooooooooooooez.....when it comes to anything dealing with the judicial system wez is black as charcoal.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:59:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084115, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have long said that Sistas need to branch out. Nothing wrong with being boo'd up with Something  New.<br><br>I'm a bit disconcerted by the emphasis on Black women with White men, though. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But it does make me go \"Patriarchy much?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:53:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083275, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Fiona:  HEY!  :&gt;)  <i>but this history will not change unless people themselves change their belief systems about race and color.</i><br><br>O.K. two things:<br><br>1. You stated that you check the box:  BLACK.  Is that for the purpose of IDENTIFYING YOUR ETHNICITY? \"<i>I check the \"black\" box <u>unless</u> they ask for ethnicity.</i>  I'm confused!  Did you think that you were being asked for the AMOUNT OF MELANIN that you possess??<br><br>2.  You have a CHOICE:  DON'T check any of the boxes.   Just DECLINE TO STATE.    <br>**shakin' my head**  Whew!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:32:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086144, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Black people tend to claim everyone, so I think your argument is flawed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083735, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "European men have always had a thing for Black American women. I've always wondered how they look at Black women in their own country...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:43:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085332, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4090194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think it's great to see at all. Like I said, perhaps if it were BW coupled with Asian, Latino....etc., then I could see your point. However, it's ALWAYS BW with WHITE men and that makes me suspicious. It's as if there's a subliminal message that if you want happiness/success, then your best bet is to choose a white person. <br><br>I would much rather see ads featuring black men with black women, showing that yes, black men desire black women. That's what I love about Barack and Michelle Obama. Their relationship totally obliterates the myth that successful black men and women must seek white mates in order to find love and happiness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:20:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087222, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On a DNA level what Black American/African-American is Black?  I sure as hell ain't.  I don't have any relatives who are. When my grandparents were born, Negro was on stamped their birth certificate.   I grew up in a neighborhood that is considered multi-ethnic Negro ( Caribean, Canadians, Central and South American. ) Definitely none of my neighbors are Black on a DNA level.  If fact I knew some Senegalese and Nigerian nationals who are not Black on a DNA level.  <br><br>So Professor Juana.  (I figured you as a geneticist.) What constitutes being Black since Barack is too God awful retarded not know that he is not Black.  <br><br>BTW, Am I West Indian because I grew up in a Caribbean neighborhood?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:45:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086320, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4157780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Den, they were in Oxford where I spent the summer studying, but I'm sure you would know better than me.  I just related my experience with Brit White guys, because ironically enough, the Black guys paid no attention to me until a white guy did.  I probably should have clarified that in my statement as well.<br><br>I want to know what is the appealing mystery of white women for Black men.  Not that it would change anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_20:21:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4157314, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "INSANITY, AS NOTED ABOVE, IS EPIDEMIC. GEEZ!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:19:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "f1ebafd5fc64d802635b54d4d3963341", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128427, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!  <br><br>The Godfather of SOUL -Mr. James Brown<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI</a><br><br>You'll get a kick out of this one!!!  LOL!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCsUWx-QoA\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCsUWx-QoA</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:23:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The fact that black people come in varying shades and hair textures is already a testament to that fact, so I don't think that's the goal. Perhaps if there were ads where the black women were with Asian or Latino men as well as white men, I would agree with you, but that fact that it's ALWAYS white men speaks volumes to the REAL agenda -- furthering the divide between black men and black women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:32:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 33, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080738, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barak Obama has identified himself as black because society has forced him to.<br>As for his White European heritage (50%) - this is an established fact .  I am not black,<br>but I gather that this term is principally used by African Americans.   Black Africans <br>refer to themselves by their nationality.   Obama in fact said it best - \"  a mutt , like me.\"<br>Exactly,,,,,,,     Nothing wrong with that - that in layman's terms is what he is.<br><br>You know,  \"mutts\" in general are healthier, smarter, live longer etc than pure breds.<br>From a genetic standpoint, Barak Obama is \"better\" than a someone who is mostly<br>one thing.       Remember his mother ?   It was she and her parents who nurtured the<br>President elect.      Barak Obama is the son of a white woman  and a native Kenyan<br>(black, if you will).   That Kenyan wasnt around - he dumped his wife and son.<br>Running around Chicago doesnt make Obama black, neither do other people's<br>perceptions of him.   I certainly hope that when  Michelle looks at her husband she doesnt see a black man.    I hope she sees  HER HUSBAND.    When I look at<br>Barak Obama, I see the next President of the United States.   I absolutely believe<br>that he does not have the prejudices rampant in this forum .   Yes, mixed heritage<br>seems make a better product.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:25:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4160346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, I moved to America from the West Indies, I know what you're talking about. It's this intimate knowledge of British West Indies that led me to say that English-speaking West Indies have <i>just</i> as much colorism issues as African America, if not more. Don't even get me started on the complexity of how interracial relationships are both more accepted, but also more indicative of the colorist nature of how we look at Blackness, you can only go so deep on a blog, lol!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_23:26:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4159892, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That would be so poetic.  God has a sense of humour, and it just might happen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:33:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081603, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4139356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She sounds like me.. Single isn't so bad though. Marriage is not what it should be, you see he was cheating. I'd rather be single than kissing husband after oral with another woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_22:17:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121406, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "quadroons,  octoroons, anyone?  mulatto, halfbreed, redbone,   I could go on...  At a very surface level, in the United States of America, you are what you look like.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:24:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4088024, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Black\" people didn't claim Barack Obama, Barack Obama claimed \"us.\"<br><br>Again, you claim that people should be called whatever they want to be called instead of accepting the labels society throws on them. <br><br>Barack Obama WANTS to be called \"black.\"  YOU and others like you want to FORCE the man to call himself \"biracial.\"<br><br>So am I to understand that people can call themselves whatever they want to call themselves, as long as it's not black?  For you to have this mindset you are<br><br>a) a self hating black person who wishes they were anything but black;<br><br>b) a biracial person who needs Obama to claim \"biracial\" to validate your own shoddy sense of self worth.<br><br>c) a non-black person who does not like black people and can only justify liking Barack Obama if he can be something other than black i.e. \"just a man\" or \"biracial.\"<br><br>Yet if a video came out on Fox News today showing Barack Obama taking off his belt and whipping Sasha and Malia for running around the White House and then later throwing his feet up on the Oval Office desk and knocking back a 40, you'd be the first one decrying how \"black\" he is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:45:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086193, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's been in a lot of fashion ads. The Gap and Old Navy always have Oluchi (fly African Model) with a white love interest in their pictorals. Sigh...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078627, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4157794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They get credit easier than we do.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;ducks&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_20:22:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135782, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well Sepia you've stayed your preferences. A lot of BW want to continue the indoctrination of focusing exclusively on BM to their detriment and will be left behind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:39:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4090194, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No I said quality men you have been focused on white men because you have a problem with it. BW should be looking for ALL men from every background who is suitable and wants them instead of wasting the best years of their lives trying to convince a few low quality pool of men that express their disdain for us that we are worthy of love and loyalty.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:23:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111514, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4126722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with your assessment on the 'Michelle' factor promoting (or demoting-depending on your viewpoint) Barack's blackness. I addressed it in late October on my blog. Check it out here:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.thejobagroup.org/?p=53\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thejobagroup.org/?p=53</a><br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Curtis", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_09:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1ac47a4f464338c282c67bd259fa52e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4129341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thank You. My point exactly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_12:22:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092600, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Uhhhh... Fiona - you missed part of that history.<br><br>Those laws were enforced until the mid-late 60's - well within the lifespan of a large segment of the black population in this country.<br><br>In Virginia, the State Congress passed \"The Racial Purity Act\" seeking to identify and classify every individual in the state as to their racial background in the 1930's and 40's.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:55:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The fact that there are 150+ posts on this story speaks to how powerful the issue of 'race' still is in these \"United\" States of America.<br><br>For anyone to argue with how someone else identifies themselves is truly special.    On a purely practical level, in this country, it's not who you are, it's what you look like.   <br><br>The color of a person's skin has been an integral part of these \"United\" States.   That color played a part in whole economies; started wars; made laws that affected education, real estate purchases and business dealings.  <br><br>African, Colored, Negro, Nigger, Nigra, Negress, Boy,    <br><br>Why are people who don't identify as Black so quick to suggest that Black people forget our beautiful and tortuous history in this country?    I don't want to dwell on the pain that my mother felt when she couldn't find a job because her college degree said \"Negro\"  but neither do I want to forget it.<br><br>Ask a Jewish person to forget the holocaust.  Ask  a Japanese American to forget WWII internments?  Ask a Native American to ignore being herded onto planta.. oops,  reservations?       I DON'T THINK SO.   <br><br>But let President Elect Obama identify himself  HIMSELF as  a black man, and now it's a problem.   Let him choose a black woman as his wife and the mother of his children, and people are flippin' out.     <br><br>Whew   Far, far from 'post-racial'  in my book.    In fact,  I'm not even sure what that means.    Race and culture are forever intertwined.   Why would I want to 'get past' all that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:06:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Umm Fiona, you need to do a LOT of research and come back when you're on the same page. We're working at the college level and you're still in grammar school. YOU have a problem with Obama choosing Black because it is undesirable to you. That's your ignorance - don't push it on someone else. He knows who he is and doesn't need to claim a false totem of whiteness/otherness to satisfy you and other people's apathy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:04:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANK YOU for finding this, spirit_55z. This article needs to be put back into circulation... thanks so much!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:37:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079485, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "h&Fs I agree with you on the quality of the man.  My sister stayed in a 20 year relationship with a married man.  Dude had 8 kids.  She is well educated, and beautiful, yet hung out with someone that was married.  I couldn't wrap my brain around that.  She could have chosen a man that was single, smart, clean....yet she chose to settle.  This man was so ignorant.  I think she thought he had the best penis around, I honestly didn't see anything he had contributed to my sister.  She settled,,, but has since moved on and still single.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111718, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You sound like Chris Rock in one of his concerts, when he talked about how OJ got off for killing his wife.<br><br>Re-phrase: <b> \"If Barack Obama is Barry Dunham, the local Metro bus-driver, he'd be \"Barry the Bus-Driving Murderer.\"</b><br><br>Garvey laid it out and sixty years later, Chris Rock picked it UP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:03:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078758, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4116856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "h&f:   OUCH!!   LOL!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)   {I have my own band-Aid!}    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:38:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111408, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If she had  picked Obama from a police line-up, her very words would've been:<br><br>\"THAT NIGGER DID IT.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:12:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i><b>Watching Spanish speaking television in this country, no one would believe that the overwhelming majority of those brought over in the hulls of those slave ships did NOT stop in North America. Look at Spanish speaking tv - nary a Black to be found.</b></i><br><br>It's amazing, isn't it? Latinos are so in denial about their own racism. The only time you see Afro-Latinos on the Spanish language channels is as slaves, satan worshippers and/or servants. When Afro-Latinos can get on-air jobs on Telemundo, Univision....etc. instead of looking to BET for a gig, then Arana and her ilk can speak. Until then SIT DOWN.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_08:38:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "claudia_m & whiterosebuddy, the except  from this article was from 60 Minute interview with Barack - Steve Kroft. <br><br><br>February 19, 2007 <br>Obama's 'Colorblind' Double Bind<br>By Clarence Page<br><br>\"There are African-Americans who don't think that you're black enough, who don't think that you have had the required experience,\" reporter Steve Kroft asked Obama as they cruised Chicago's South Side during a recent \"60 Minutes\" profile.<br><br> \"The truth of the matter is,\" Obama mused, gazing at the neighborhoods outside their vehicle's windows, \"when I'm walking down the south side of Chicago and visiting my barbershop and playing basketball in some of these neighborhoods, those aren't questions I get asked.\"<br><br>No, those are the kind of questions some people ask about you when you're the first black presidential candidate to have a viable chance of winning.<br><br>\"I also notice when I'm catching a cab,\" he quipped. \"Nobody's confused about that, either.<br><br>Read complete article:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/obamas_colorblind_double_bind.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:20:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079100, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The fact that doctors identify use by race is ridiculous. My genes have nothing to do with my race. Just because I am dark chocolate does not mean that everyone who is dark chocolate will have the same genes, diseases etc as me. Your genes are comprised of not only your parents, grandparent etc, but even many generations before your great, great grandparents. So, if I have \"Black\", \"white\", Indian, and Asian in my family, but my complexion is brown and I have negroid features how would it help doctors to group me in with the \"Black\" race? I probably more than most people am disturbed by the notion of race and skin color difference, because it means nothing. People make it stand for more than it should. Yes America has a history of racial division etc, but this history will not change unless people themselves change their belief systems about race and color.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_13:49:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf018f24ac3eb4d5cbcbee3b2ff5ba74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084055, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4157314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They do? As a born and bred black woman living in London would like to know where these mystery black men and white men are. Black men in  the UK love white women, over 40% of them in relationships are not with black women.  Trust me, single black women with child or not child with decent job is alive and well just like her US counterpart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_19:52:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "f0304ad84fc41a565a76d3a5b2e0c717", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085332, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"...[H]alf black African and half American ( white European ancestry)\" <br>Soooo... American means white European ancestry?  No.  That's where you lost me,  Barack Obama what he identifies himself to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:41:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086320, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4078984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I shared in an earlier post today, that chick and all the other folk who come with this bullshit, CHECK YOURSELVES!!!!    These mofos didn't see Barack and Michelle Obama coming, and now that they have arrived, they are trying to re-write the playbook for them and blacks, and that's not gonna happen!  <br><br>Being black is like holding the all the Aces in deck of cards.<br><br>\"Sorry, you\u2019re just going to have to deal with the full complexity of Black humanity\"<br><br> Sure you right, rikyrah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:08:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b><i> I've seen BLACK MEN sell out faster when THEY date outside the race than I have BLACK WOMEN.</i></b><br><br>My experience has been that sistas sell out just as much as brothas when they date outside the race. <br><br>I must say that I find that sistas have a glaring double standard when it comes to interracial dating. We tend to be more lenient when BW date outside the race, but when BM do it it's a whole 'nother story. Just reading some of the responses in this convo is proof of that. Can you imagine if BM were talking about how much white women were into them as opposed to BW? They would get slammed by us!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:07:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4132981, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you.<br>You are absolutely correct; Barack Obama was considered \"ALL BLACK.\"<br>There were NONE of the semantics we are hearing now...now that he is \"President-Elect\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:56:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091619, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I take the line that it is up to the bi/multi-racial person to define themselves. Society may define them, because that's what race is, a societal construction. However, I believe the individual has the final word.\" <br><br>-Very good point and I agree with it.<br>Someone on this thread mentioned Rev. Wright; another good point.<br>When the 'god damn America\" sound bites came out, the hand wringing started:<br>\"Oh, how could Obama just sit there and hear this black preacher say this?\"<br>\"Ohhhh, I'm going to faint!\"<br>I didn't hear anyone say, \"Well, he's not black, he's biracial.\"<br><br>President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has defined himself as BLACK.<br><br>Deal with it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:11:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079608, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Typical Hispanic hogwash. Oh. We ain't Black! We be any thing but Black! Sickening.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:34:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "f1ebafd5fc64d802635b54d4d3963341", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4136338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word, CPL.  I was 17and pregnant when I got married .  Back then, you got preggers, you get married.  I thought I was in love, and I cared for my husband.  We had 2 beautiful daughters, and remain friends.  I realized, Iwas just too young.  I went to college after I had my children.  My dad saved $$ for me to go to college and was highly disappointed when I got pregnant in my senior year of high school.  I still graduated intop of my class, and he still delivered the $$ for college even after I got married.  I was the first of 11 children in my family to go to college.  I have a wonderful marriage now with a caring, loving and kindred Soul.  Some day Your Prince will come! :-)))<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKyHQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKyHQ</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_18:08:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135605, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, let's make January 20th, 2009 Biracial day.  So when we are followed by security personnel in shopping areas, filling out forms with ethnicity check box, arrested/convicted of a crime, giving birth, dating, joining, organizations, or any social activities dealing with mainstream institutions, we'll state \"We're not Black, we're biracial/multi-racial\". <br><br>&lt;snark&gt;<br> I think that's a great way to f**k with folks heads.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:34:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4159892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I date mostly Asian men which people find interesting. <br><br>My greatgrandfather was what would be considered \"Chinese Jamaican\" so that kind of thing is not new for me. Mostly all of my friends are black with last names like Chung due to this. Many West Indians have those mixtures especially where my mom is from in JA where all of her close friends were Asian.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:54:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4138194, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Y'all, we are :here: We need to sit down somewhere and write a book...times are hard, I need to upgrade my hustle, lol!<br><br>My father is a Jewish third generation biracial man (basically, my biracial grandparents kept the bloodlines half-and-half, lol), and my mother is 1/4 Indian (relating to India, not Native America), 3/4 African woman. But this is common to Blackness, that's what gets me the most about this whole discussion.<br><br>America, and  people of other nationalities who buy into the European mindset of beauty, refuse to speak truth to power about the beauty of Blackness, and (let's just keep it real) <i> how much they want us</i>. We've got hundreds of thousands of millions of Black folk with almost every nation/tribe/tongue in their bloodlines, but everyone wants to act like they don't know how it got there.<br><br>Riiiiiight!<br><br>I walk with my head high, because my parents let me know that despite the multitude of cultures and races in my blood, I am and always will be a Black woman. It could just be the West Indian background (my mother is Trini and my father is Jamaican), we've always been very Black Pride/Black Power. (Marcus Garvey, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, etc.)<br><br>The world may put us on the bottom. But when I look outside and I see our many complexions, shades, and cultures, I know when the lights come off there's a whole other story being told!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:25:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081968, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4157847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Add  the indigneous population to this list. Can you imagine what it must be like to have your home raided by foreigners, treaties broken, straight our lied to and your land taken over while you are herded to an attic to live out your days? That is major mental trauma.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_20:26:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "f0304ad84fc41a565a76d3a5b2e0c717", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079131, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know where NO ID is coming from, but I do find it interesting that what was probably considered the ideal mold of \"the talented tenth\" is not EVEN where Barack and Michelle came from. I've read a lot about the \"old guard\" (so-to-speak) of black society from back in the day....the \"paper bag\" tests, the vacation spots on Martha's Vineyard for the uppercrust knee-grows, the Spelman/Morehouse paradox - I knew all of the characters from Dorothy West's book The Wedding - because I've met them all in real life when I worked for Atlanta Life Ins Company. There was even this guy a few years ago - a real nut case - that was putting together a \"black\" Social Register. OK, I won't call him a nutcase, but the brutha was confused as hell...nevertheless, President-elect and First Lady Obama wouldn't make the cut for this \"register\". Its an interesting paradox.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:12:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091207, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sigh........Prejudice has nothing to do with it.   Do you know anything about pure bred animals?  The more inbred they are - the more burdened they are with physical problems.    Take bulldogs for example - cute ,but incredibly unhealthy.<br>The same goes for people.    Jews for example, particularly the Ashkenazi subgroup have a very high incidence of genetic diseases BECAUSE historically this group did not marry out of the group.    Mutts  ARE a better product,  in part because they dilute the incidence of mutations.      Better product - for me, that means fewer genetic mutations that decrease the quality of  life.      Maligning ?   This is not maligning- it is simply a fact.   <br>Morale of the story ?  Unions that produce produce people like Barak Obama<br>are good in the genetic sense and even in the social sense.     <br>I am not intolerant of Barak Obama, I celebrate his mixed heritage.<br>This forum ignores half of what he is .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_12:47:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128905, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While I believe no one loves America more than we do, Native Americans cannot be overlooked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:56:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078743, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is exactly why I shook my head when Barack Obama referred to himself jokingly as a \"mutt.\"  Because people would take their junior-high school level understanding of genetics as applied to dogs and start getting into race/biology arguments like this one.  You're saying that people of mixed race are genetically better.   You couldn't have even stopped there, because you went on to intelligence.  Bell Curve ring a bell? What you said was racially charged.  Mixed race = better.<br><br>That is not the same thing as simply saying that genetic variation is good.  We talked about genetic issues like Tay-Sachs and sickle cell down the thread - it's already been acknowledged that sometimes doctors can use someone's racial background to infer a disorder associated with a lack of genetic diversity.  But the problem isn't that more people aren't RACIALLY mixed, it's that they aren't genetically mixed - these aren't one and the same thing.  You're drawing a quick and dirty shortcut to get there.  And it's more like prejudicial, inside-out eugenics than anything else to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130201, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Word, Miranda, and it won't matter a lick how pretty and blond his wife is either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:29:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4087299, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Word UP on this, Hearts and Flowers.  Whites may have promoted their ideas of beauty, but many in our midst bought off on that shyt.<br><br>My Cherokee-Choctaw-Creole Maternal Grandmother didn't buy that her light skin, long, wavy hair and keen features were the epitome of beauty.  She pissed off my great-grandparents when she ran off and married my grandfather, a direct descendant of African slaves, and not the Creole/half White guy her parents chose because she already identified with being a Colored woman in the 1920s.  She purposely wanted her children to have that rich, mahogany color of my grandfather and said as much.  My mother and her siblings were not allowed to favorably treat others who were light-skinned; that shyt earned them whippings from my grandmother, for whom I am named.<br><br>My paternal grandmother, also a blend of Choctaw-Blackfoot-Seminole-Creole, had serious color issues and got pissed when all her sons married medium-brown to dark brown skinned women.  The only grandchildren she had any interest in were the ones my aunt and her half-white husband had.  Never mind that the husband was a serial adulterer who fathered nine kids with three other women outside the marriage; when my aunt wanted to leave, my color-struck granny persuaded her to stay with my whoring uncle until the day came that my uncle tried to run over my aunt in the street in downtown Houston, with one of his mistresses in the car.<br><br>I don't know why my uncle thought he could go home after that scene, but he did, and caught a bullet from my aunt; she'd had enough.  Imagine if my aunt had been properly taught the self-esteem she needed; she was a truly beautiful woman with waist-length hair and dark chocolate colored skin, but because she was taught light was right - she stayed in a marriage that outlived its shelf life the day my oldest cousin was born.<br><br>Sorry to rant, but these stories bring up these memories for me, and the shyt I've had to fight on my own level since I was a teen-ager and began dating guys who grew up with these warped foolishness of what constitutes being Black in America and warped standards of beauty among Black women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:19:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080710, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Teeth... the first thing I check. I'm sorry but I can't deal with a jacked mouth. I'm just saying...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:12:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091394, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4117683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They don't put fluoride in their water. Some guys do have nice teeth and they are far better dressers. You will see nary a baggy pant in sight amongst the Black guys. You'll feel right at home there's a huge Carib/continental African core group there. I felt very American when I lived there. You'll find plenty of guys just walking down the street and interacting with the population. Just smile and be open to mingling. Of course you don't have to go across the pond to meet quality men who'd find you attractive Islandgirl.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091009, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4082600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I had to laugh at this line:<br><br>\"We are racially sophisticated enough to elect a non-white president, and we are so racially backward that we insist on calling him black.\"<br><br>\"Insist on calling him black\".........\"insist\".........<br><br>The only decent rebuttal to this woman is a slap across her face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_09:40:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Fiona:   <i>I check Black if they do not ask for ethnicity.</i><br><br>  I'm gonna try this ONE MO' 'GIN:<br><br>Document X:<br><br>Ethnic Code/Ethnicity:<br>   __Black<br> ___White<br>___Hispanic<br>___Asian<br>___Other<br><br><br>What would/do YOU check?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:47:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091651, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On the subject of non-black folks who don't want to claim black ancestry:<br><br>A few years ago, I visited the Pequot Museum at the Foxwoods Casino and Resort in Connecticut.  Throughout the museum, they have life-size replicas of the historical Pequot Indians living as they did three, four, five, even ten centuries ago.  They also have a film depicting how the Pequots were attacked and fought against white settlers.  Both the replicas and the actors in the movie look much like the sterotypical American Indian.<br><br>However, this is where it gets interesing:  the staff at the museum and the casino, almost all Pequots, and the large photos around the museum of the members of the Pequot tribe today, are very different.  Almost every one of them looks like an African-American - granted, a light-skinned or medium-brown skinned African-American, but black nonetheless, with hair and features much more typical of blacks than Indians. <br><br>During a tour of the museum, the tour guide asked if any of us had any questions.  I asked when and how did the Pequots intermarry with African-Americans?  I assumed it might be like other stories I had heart of escaped slaves who took refuge with Indian tribes, but I thought it would be interesting to hear the actual story.  The guy's response:  \"We've never intermarried with African-Americans.\"<br><br>Me:  Um... yes, you have.  You wouldn't look the way you do if you hadn't.  <br><br>Tour guide (now angry and defensive):  We're not mixed with black!  We're 100% Indian!<br><br>So I agree, many non-blacks in this country owe a lot to blacks, both as (many times) part of their heritage, and as those at the forefront of the struggle for equality for *all* people.  <br>'<br>OTOH, I wouldn't say we're the only TRUE Americans.  Other groups have made significant contributions as well.  Recently, HuffPo had an article about how Native Americans serve in the armed forces at a greater rate per capita than any other racial group in this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ec0c3750d3b1d04704f1382766a9ad42", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4158384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that's all I was trying to say. And I think it's good for a darker skinned woman to see someone who kinda looks like her smiling and happy in an ad. And if it's with a white guy so be it. Maybe some young girl will realize she has other options than the ones she being taught to believe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_20:03:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4157951, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "kenyaw,<br><br>You are not alone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_18:09:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "56c87d21a58dccec11453635d0997f6c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4110678, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dayum, the Miss America pagent couldn't snatch that title back from homegirl quick enough.  Their problem was they had to pass it to another sista.<br><br>They gave Vanessa back to the Black Community faster than a mangy dog could spread fleas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:22:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079155, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GHL,<br><br>Have I told you lately that I love you???<br><br>WHEEEWWW   Oxygen mask....:LOLOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:29:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092331, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't agree with that because Black women tend to think that other groups of men don't find them attractive. Also BW are the ones usually holding on to wanting a Black man regardless of whether he's a quality man. Then there's the slavery baggage. If you compare the opposite response where a lot of Black men have no problem whatsoever coupling with non Black women from F. Douglass on down. I think it's great for BW to see it in the media since we are usually denigrated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:59:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4082007, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "EWWWW, and in America, with all the low-cost access to dental care, that brotha had no damned excuse for his teeth looking like an ear of corn, except either he was too lazy or too scared to go and get that shyt treated.<br><br>My ex-boss has a mouth full of decayed teeth that are now starting to cause her health problems elsewhere.  She might end up with dentures - but the reason she wouldn't go to the dentist and get fillings or root canals when it was feasible?<br><br>She would have to take pain meds after treatment and that would interfere with getting her drink on!!!!!  She wants a man and wonders why the hell they run away when she opens her mouth and foul stench emerges....EWWWWWWWWw", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:18:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4133281, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4087225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope they see people as white or non white period. Any variations they notice is after they've spent time hanging around other Blacks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:59:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4081944, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111291": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well their heritage is not the same. They may or may not have DNA indicative from African nations. I wouldn't necessarily decide someone's ethnicity based on phenotype. When I mentioned some Latinos not claiming Black heritage I was specifically referring to an acknowledgement of the gene pool. There are also many Black people who have a majority European ancestry who'd prefer to ignore it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_18:46:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4092539, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4086716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is a quote  in the New York TImes from Obama  that I posted before....<br><br>When he was selected president of the Harvard Law Review, 1990:<br><br>''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging. <br><br>''But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don't get a chance,'' he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment. <br><br><br>Whether one agrees with it or not, Obama \"includes\" himself with Blacks as well as his mother's parentage.  \"We\", as in black people didn't box him in to anything....it seems he came to terms with what he related to a long time age.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_14:25:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WOOO HOOO!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_12:14:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079155, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm hating on it because he knows he don't have \"good hair\", or at least he wouldn't have it without that S-Curl.<br><br>And he should know better than to put Olive Oil Sheen on with a heavy hand, when, like Brylcream, a little dab'll do ya.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:25:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4079670, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4081603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That gene pool is iffy, heartsandflowers.  His first child with Snowflake might come out looking like Wesley Snipes because of a throwback gene, and it doesn't necessarily have to come from his side of the clan, either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_07:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080726, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One commenter on my blog noted that her's is a Hispanic point of view. Elsewhere in the Americas or the Caribbean (not as defined in brit. colonies) they have refined castes of mestizoes and mulattoes to a science. That is not the case here and there are historical reasons why going back to basics like the fact that whites have always been the majority since this place was a frontier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:46:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But we don't want no scrubs! Actually one of the bloggers I met in Denver had teeth the color of ripe corn. I could not believe they were so yellow and he wasn't a smoker. It was so distracting trying to have a conversation. Teeth do matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:29:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4133055, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>On a purely practical level, in this country, it's not who you are, it's what you look like.</i><br><br>Which goes to the heart of what I have been saying for years.  I have traveled extensively abroad, and when I am in another country---without exception---I am seen as American first, black second.  However, in the land of my birth it is the opposite---has always been the case, and sadly may always be.<br><br>That is the reality in the USA plain and simple, and I'm sick of people trying to make it out like if I somehow get over it that the circumstances will magically change.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:11:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112242, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah,<br><br>Thank you for this post. I have been so bothered by this topic and I am glad that you started this conversation again.  I am just scratching my head when I hear people especially those OVER 50 act as if most biracial people have not always self-identified as black. But, I guess you are right, they never thought that once they had a \"choice\" that most would chose to still be black or embrace their African heritage.<br><br>If they only knew how offensive it is for them to wonder why he calls himself black. Maybe some people like being black. I know that I love it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_10:23:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "glory:   HEY!  :&gt;)<br><br>Co-sign!  <b>He can BE whateva he wants!</b>  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:45:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091267, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4092077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"...the ideal mold of \"the talented tenth\" is not EVEN where Barack and Michelle came from...\"<br><br>Yes!  I have personally been relishing this fact for some time now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:29:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4091800, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Marie Arana discusses her mixed lineage in the article...but then refers to others like her as Hispanic....<br><br>SO why does she feel calling herself \"Hispanic\" is not as limiting as Obama being called \"Black?\"<br><br>Hell, WE all know Blacks in this country have a mixed heritage...we see it in our own families...even Henry Louis Gates, Jr documented the genelogical finds of Oprah Winfrey, Mae Jemison, and T.D. Jakes, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker and others...and they all walked away with mixed heritage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:39:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4149946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You still here trying to convince YOURSELF that President -elect Obama is not a black man?? mmmkay<br><br>Ramble on.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_12:31:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4148566, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4080601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This has been good for me to read. <br><br><br>The author is an ass. The Latino community has it's own divisions of class. My grandmother came from the lowly poor and you saw in her  a woman who was more native. Who even knows if she had conquistador blood. The novellas and any Mexican born stars are good looking in the white America way. They do not look as if they have any blood from indigenous people.<br><br>I find it sad that some feel as if the heavy lifting has only been done by blacks. I do feel that until America treated the black population with the respect and esteem it so richly deserves, there would be no real movement at all. There would be no real change for any of us, Sikh, Native, Latina, Asian....any of us without America stepping out of its denial.<br><br>It has been good for me to read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_03:46:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know because I am one of those black  people...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_20:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111291, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4139485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was Gisele not Heidi", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_22:27:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c764cd19665199c1b46b6f7fd9b26f59", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4132981, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4134366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't know that about Obama.  Irony doesn't get any better than that. LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_16:19:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4119725, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b><i>We have a 2% chance for a quality BM.</i></b><br><br>What is your definition of a \"quality BM\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:57:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121582, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not in the context of life in America, Fiona.<br><br>Race very much matters.<br><br>Look at the voting statistics for Obama in different locations across the US. Obama pulled 95% of the black vote -  5-7% above the \"norm\" - so race did matter to some percentage of black voters.<br><br>Obama pulled 45% of the white vote in industrialized \"liberal\"states, but only 15% in the states won by McTush - 20% BELOW the \"norm. So race damn sure mattered to some white voters.<br><br>While I'm with you in the spirit that it shouldn't matter...<br><br>The painful reality in a country with the long bitter history of ours is...<br><br>It does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:42:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083735, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4138980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "he's BLACK, he's BEAUTIFUL, and he's about to be our PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_21:43:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4110311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ROTFLMAO!!!!  GHL, you know you gonna hav ta give up the Gucci.  they'll let you keep the payless shoes, though. LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_17:34:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4084414, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4440041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ditto!<br>obama is bi-racial<br><br>how dare black racists erase his white kin who reared him solo!<br><br>see more on obama's race at:<br>OUTLOOK<br><a href=\"http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-16_19:37:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "b0f51ed948c25843d7ed3c6e90bec612", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok, I'm 53 and this is number 3.  <br><br>#1 husband was Black/Cherokee - 13 years<br>#2 White/Pennsylvania/Dutch German- 7 years<br>#3 Black-Jamaican/Canadian- 16 years<br><br>And they are all good! :-)))))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:55:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4135089, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh yes whiterosebuddy did there.  Without BLACK FOLK, there would be no one else in America to help folk gauge their self  worth-- their greatness.  White folks need to appropriate or sanction what is great for us so they can define their own greatness.  Sistas, don't get me started!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:24:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4116460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town!   Town!    Town!!  :&gt;)  \"WHYCOME\" you speak the TRUTH!?   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112577, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4159469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hearts and flowers-<br><br>What you call black racism is what is called internalized racism which is caused by years of indocrination and socialization of white supremacy-anything closer to white is desirable and better. Blacks as well as Asians, Hispanics and others have this same sorry problem so to say tat it does not come from whites or by extension whiteness is inaccurate. <br><br>By the way, whites do see color and have for centuries. They have 2 eyes and they work. I will never forget the day when a white couple complimented my mother on her \"none ethnic features\".<br><br>Its unfortunate.<br><br>When I meet up with blacks who have moderate to severe symptoms of the slave mentality, I can only shake my head and feel sorry for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_22:22:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4080710, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow! She can't ever get that time back either. But you know a lot of women do that by holding on to tactics that no longer apply and waiting for their Perfect Black Prince. We have a 2% chance for a quality BM. So a lot of women share men, choose criminals or lower their standards to the point I'd ask why bother?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:44:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121406, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4084208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly.  Why all the qualifiers?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:41:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083710, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fiona:  HEY!  :&gt;)     <b>AFRICAN.</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_15:47:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085983, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4091902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I identify with \"Black\", but it's not because \"white\" people see me as \"black,\"  I see it as a practical term that's a good shorthand for how I culturally identify in solidarity with other African descendants in this country.  There is nothing wrong with that.  I suspect that may be the same reason Obama uses it.  It does say something about who I am - a descendant of Africans, just like Obama, Tiger Woods, and my parents.  I hope racial categories never become such a thing of the past that people are actually offended that I want to proudly say that I and my future children are black.  Fiona, the barriers to human respect aren't the labels we brandish, it's the belief of some that they have the right to disrespect others based on their labels.<br><br>It's been my experience that some West Indians don't like to check \"black\" because in this country, it's shorthand for \"Black American,\" and that's not who they are - they have a different culture altogether.  I'm not saying that this is your issue, but I will say that even countries in S.A. and the West Indies have their own local racial classifications.  This is just how ours works here.  The classifications are not going anywhere, though they may morph over time, like the names of neighborhoods, based on changing perspectives.  But humans have been classifying since Adam named the animals.  It's just names.   Like you said, a societal construct.  How is it any worse for people to identify with them than it is for you to reject them altogether?  Ultimately, the labels only matter so much.<br><br>When Obama says he's Black, he is not rejecting his mother and grandparents, he is telling people how he culturally identifies.<br><br>When Black people claim other people of African descent, it is akin to welcoming or embracing kindred, and I don't understand where your puzzlement over that comes from, as we've been doing it since crossing the Atlantic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_16:18:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4086036, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "About your comment:  \"I SO am not gonna listen to a Latino tell me who IS and ISNT Black.\"<br><br>Poor latinos getting a bad reputation from the irresponsible statements this woman has made!!  Now we have as a racial \"expert\" this very privileged and powerful lady who --in the best American tradition of reinvention-- in middle age has conveniently embraced her father's Hispanic/Peruvian heritage now that being Latino had finally become chic and marketable.  I'd take everything this self-styled arbiter and spokeswoman of all things Hispanic, multiethnic and now even multiracial!! says with a huge grain of salt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:45:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "66185c8b268a1f0fde16aa0a3f2a2cf7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...again?...We're gonna have this conversation <i>again</i>? Lord have mer...<br><br>I take the line that it is up to the bi/multi-racial person to define themselves. Society may define them, because that's what race is, a societal construction. However, I believe the individual has the final word. <br><br>Obama says he's a Black man with a White mother and Black father, who was raised by his White grandparents, and who married a Black woman and has two Black daughters. So I see Obama as a Black man. End of story. <br><br>America is just gonna have to catch up to the complexity of Blackness. To quote rikyrah: <b>\"WTF do you think Black folk are?\u201d</b><br><br>And you make a great point about telenovellas and Spanish TV in general. The rare, once-in-a-blue-moon time I see a Black Latin person, it's Mammie crying over Monsignor\u2019s children. For real. So my Latin@ sistren and breddren, as much as I am a HUGE proponent of coalitions, I will allow you the space and time to get your own house in order before attempting to decorate mine. And I know this is a serious topic that is currently being held in the Latino communities...much like our own in the Black community as it relates to color-struckness. (Don't even get me started on color-struckness!!)<br><br>If Black folk are still running around talking about the 1/36th Cherokee princess they have in their bloodlines because of some picture they saw of great-great-great-Granny Mae where she was wearing plaits and they wanna claim that as Native American, then Obama can be a Proud Black Man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_00:39:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She needs to go and give Jigga some crumbsnatchers who will have half a chance because she's still beautiful - even if she is a no-talent actress and low-talent singer who's getting by on hype.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:22:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4118875, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't it great that the first Blacks to go to the White House came from a poor background and made it on their choices, drive and intellect? No \"We Are Better Than Those Negros\" in sight. Though they do have a few socialites in their circle. But all of the so-called elites couldn't get it together enough to put one of their own forth to run an effective campaign.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_18:52:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4085027, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4079100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It was part of an interview. I recall the words but not the precise event. I will think on it though, I am almost certain it was during the Senate campaign, & questions came from an interviewer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-30_23:26:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4078843, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4083710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh.....so now something is wrong with Obama......first it was \"a person should be whatever they want to be\"...but then when the choice is \"black\"...oh, now its the wrong choice. There's something \"wrong\" with that. <br><br>wow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_11:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4083337, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4157951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Black men believe the whole world is their dating oyster , black women should have the same attitude. For me there is no automatic oath of allegience. 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		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '3a1994e3330279e78957da82fb64f754';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=barack_obama_not_black' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + disqus_default_text +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/barack_obama_not_black/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'barack_obama_not_black'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/barack_obama_not_black/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">277</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/barack_obama_not_black/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/barack_obama_not_black/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:7748442" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/barack_obama_not_black/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:7748442" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:7748442" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'barack_obama_not_black',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/barack_obama_not_black/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'barack_obama_not_black'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'barack_obama_not_black'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'barack_obama_not_black'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/7748442/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084180" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084180">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084180" class="dsq-comment-message">Marie Arana discusses her mixed lineage in the article...but then refers to others like her as Hispanic....<br><br>SO why does she feel calling herself "Hispanic" is not as limiting as Obama being called "Black?"<br><br>Hell, WE all know Blacks in this country have a mixed heritage...we see it in our own families...even Henry Louis Gates, Jr documented the genelogical finds of Oprah Winfrey, Mae Jemison, and T.D. Jakes, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker and others...and they all walked away with mixed heritage.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4083810">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083810" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083810">BTx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083810" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083810" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Obama\'s family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation<br><br>By Dahleen Glanton and Stacy St. Clair | Tribune Reporters<br>    December 1, 2008<br><br>A slave cabin at the Friendfield Plantation<br><br>Five cabins remain today of the row of shacks that lined the dirt road once known as Slave Street on a South Carolina plantation. Michelle Obama\'s great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. (Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / November 22, 2008)<br><br>  <i><br><br>GEORGETOWN, S.C.—Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation.<br><br>More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their descendants remained here for more than a century after the Civil War. The last tenants abandoned the hovels about three decades ago, and even they would have struggled to imagine a distant daughter of the plantation one day calling the White House home.<br><br>But a historical line can be drawn from these Low Country cabins to Michelle Obama, charting an American family\'s improbable journey through slavery, segregation, the civil rights movement and a historic presidential election.<br><br>Their documented passage begins with Jim Robinson, Obama\'s great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850 and lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. Records show he remained on the estate after the war, working as a sharecropper and living in the old slave quarters with his wife, Louiser, and their children. He could neither read nor write, according to the 1880 census.<br><br>      Video<br><br>Related links<br><br>    *<br>      Slave ancestors Slave ancestors Photos<br>    *<br><br>      Barack Obama photos:<br><br><br><br><br><br>      Want to see even more? Click here<br>      Obama Watch: Get the latest Obama news<br>    *<br>      Barack Obama Watch<br>      Road to the White House<br>      Photos | Video | Biography | Chicago tour<br>      Countdown to Inauguration:<br>      50 days, 00 hours, 52 minutes, 05 seconds.<br>    *<br>      Following the President-elect\'s run Video<br><br>Robinson would be the last illiterate branch of Michelle Obama\'s family tree.<br><br>Census records show each generation of Robinsons became more educated than the last, with Michelle Obama eventually earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Her older brother, Craig, also received an Ivy League education...</i><br><br><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama-slavery-01-dec01%2C0%2C485324.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ob...</a><br><br>So... Obama may have never been connected to American slavery...<br><br>But his children are.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4119725">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4119725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4119725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4119725">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4119725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4119725" class="dsq-comment-message">But, Obama IS connected to American slavery.......his White side were SLAVE OWNERS<br><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>I thought that was frigging hilarious when it was revealed. <br><br>Can\'t escape American\'s ORIGINAL SIN, no matter where you go...LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4134366">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4134366" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4134366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4134366">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4134366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134366" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t know that about Obama.  Irony doesn\'t get any better than that. LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4082600">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4082600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4082600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4082600">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4082600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082600" class="dsq-comment-message">I had to laugh at this line:<br><br>"We are racially sophisticated enough to elect a non-white president, and we are so racially backward that we insist on calling him black."<br><br>"Insist on calling him black"........."insist".........<br><br>The only decent rebuttal to this woman is a slap across her face.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083014" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083014">kenyaw</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083014" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083014" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda,<br><br>You highlighted the exact lines that I found so sickening. Thank you!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4083783">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083783">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083783" class="dsq-comment-message">I have said this before, I\'ll say it again...blogs have saved my life. That line was completely nauseating. I can\'t engage people like that face to face because I would be up under the jail.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4082042">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4082042" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4082042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4082042">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4082042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082042" class="dsq-comment-message"><i><b>Watching Spanish speaking television in this country, no one would believe that the overwhelming majority of those brought over in the hulls of those slave ships did NOT stop in North America. Look at Spanish speaking tv - nary a Black to be found.</b></i><br><br>It\'s amazing, isn\'t it? Latinos are so in denial about their own racism. The only time you see Afro-Latinos on the Spanish language channels is as slaves, satan worshippers and/or servants. When Afro-Latinos can get on-air jobs on Telemundo, Univision....etc. instead of looking to BET for a gig, then Arana and her ilk can speak. Until then SIT DOWN.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4082219">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4082219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4082219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4082219">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4082219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082219" class="dsq-comment-message">That lady is obviously a raving idiot.  Every black person I know is mixed with something.  Besides that , Barack truly is an African American.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083391" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083391" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083391">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083391" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083391" class="dsq-comment-message">But not every white person. I think that  to a certain extent the article was intended for the white   audience. Lets  remember that the media always fail to point  out that an overwhelming number of blacks in the western hemisphere have  white and/or Native American ancestors.    Not a lot of white people know that there has been a lot racial mixing that makes race more complicated than what is commonly believed. I think she could have discussed this issue without saying Obama is not black. Her statement is a huge distraction.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4081529" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081529" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081529">ljf</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4081529" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081529" class="dsq-comment-message">If she had  picked Obama from a police line-up, her very words would\'ve been:<br><br>"THAT NIGGER DID IT."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4080601" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4080601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4080601">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4080601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080601" class="dsq-comment-message">This has been good for me to read. <br><br><br>The author is an ass. The Latino community has it\'s own divisions of class. My grandmother came from the lowly poor and you saw in her  a woman who was more native. Who even knows if she had conquistador blood. The novellas and any Mexican born stars are good looking in the white America way. They do not look as if they have any blood from indigenous people.<br><br>I find it sad that some feel as if the heavy lifting has only been done by blacks. I do feel that until America treated the black population with the respect and esteem it so richly deserves, there would be no real movement at all. There would be no real change for any of us, Sikh, Native, Latina, Asian....any of us without America stepping out of its denial.<br><br>It has been good for me to read.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4081887">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4081887" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081887" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081887">islandgirl550</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4081887" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081887" class="dsq-comment-message">"I find it sad that some feel as if the heavy lifting has only been done by blacks. I do feel that until America treated the black population with the respect and esteem it so richly deserves, there would be no real movement at all."<br><br>I\'m glad you said this. Sometimes I think people, especially immigrants don\'t realize that blacks in the country have taken a lot of the hits to make it easier for a lot of people who have been marginalized. But I do relaize many have done heavy lifting for the cause. <br>Cesar Chavez comes to mind...</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4080696">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4080696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4080696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4080696" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4080696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080696" class="dsq-comment-message">No need to even waste the response. White people are going to continue using other non-whites to do their dirty work for them to try to confuse people from recognizing the same old racism. Don\'t believe the hype. <br><br>It\'s esp galling for Latinos/Hispanics who have  a complicated ethnicity and usually don\'t want to admit they have ANY African heritage even when they look "Blacker" than the average Black person. So that rejection is about "us" being at the bottom of the barrel. If everyone was doing really in well they\'d be claiming it for sure. And yes Telemundo and Univision just kill me with them ALWAYS showing the whitest skinned people ever. Even Hollywood does it. <br><br>Did I mention the racism of a lot of Latinos who look down on Black people. Pu-leeze! Doesn\'t Brazil has the largest Black population outside continental Africa? When do we ever hear about the contributions of Afro-Latinos? And some native Mexicans who are Black? Where was all of this claiming then? <br><br>Besides Barack says he\'s Black and he has the right to self-determine how he views himself. I also think him being raised by whites was the best thing for him. He chose a regular Black woman as his mate, a woman who would\'ve been passed over by a lot of Black men (whether they were educated/high salaried or not) who would\'ve wanted a white woman just because they have one. Let\'s be blunt shall we. He also doesn\'t have this "I\'m a victim of racism poor me for not achieving anything" mindset either.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4081843">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4081843" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081843">islandgirl550</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4081843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081843" class="dsq-comment-message">As a person whose father is Afro-Cuban, let me just say this: The Hispanic community is like 50 to 70 years behind us on the color thang. All the actors on the novelas send a message that everyone is Spainard or looks that way. America only thinks Hispanics are mestizo and look like J-LO. Sigh...<br><br>Yes, yes my father has traced his family to West Africa as well as Sephardic Jews on the Iberian Peninsula, but he called himself BLACK. His choice. Period.<br><br>Growing up, my father and grandmother taught me about many black Cubans. (If she wasn\'t the absolute bomb, the Hispanic community would never claim Celia Cruz!)<br><br>But would you believe it wasn\'t until last year that I learned of the blacks in Mexico??? How ignorant I felt. Then I ran to tell my Mexican co-worker...he didn\'t know of them either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4083457" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083457" class="dsq-comment-message">I read awhile ago that there is a subset of Korean-Mexican people living in Mexico. A small community, but there nontheless. I\'ve been reading a lot about Blackness in Latin nations, Latin-American culture, trust, with this whole Obama thing, they are doing their darndest to catch up!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087349" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4087349" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087349" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow thanks for your reply. It\'s a vital part of the conversation. Black people of all nationalities have been EVERYWHERE! We just don\'t know it but the information is out there for those of us seeking knowledge from a position of strength. We\'re in Iraq too by the way. The population that survived slavery is still stuck back there otherwise our other cousins wouldn\'t act like they don\'t know us. Hugo Chavez of all people has no problem acknowledging his Black heritage.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079763">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079763" class="dsq-comment-message">Found this in the comments section over at Ta-Nehisi Coates:<br><br><i>When Malcolm X gave a lecture in Ghana, he was asked by a listener why he called himself black, since he was so light skinned than in Ghana he would be considered white. Malik responded: “At home, that is the place I was born, I’ve been called by Whites a yellow nigger, a light-skinned nigger, a red uppity nigger, a fair-skinned seditious nigger, but never until now have I been called a White man. I mean, Whites, who should know their own have never made the mistake of overlooking my African blood.”<br><br><br>Posted by Chris Van Dyke<br></i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4078624" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078624" class="dsq-comment-message">My first response to this is frustration and annoyance - this tired debate? again? - but I am glad that there are good folks like you, rikyrah, and Ta-Nehisi Coates to deconstruct this editorial\'s faulty logic. Arana seems to be confusing the ridiculously antiquated one-drop rule with Obama\'s chosen <i>cultural</i> identification. What is "racially backward" is criticizing how he defines his own identity (and I agree that Michelle has a lot to do with this) or to insist that he, and we, behave according to someone else\'s rules. <br><br>LOL @ <i>WTF do you think Black folk are? </i><br><br>That\'s what I\'m saying...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078686">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078686" class="dsq-comment-message">The big reason I feel we are dealing with this is because white folks want to lay claim to Barack!  They want to be recognized as being part of the greatness that he is. They are refusing to let him be black like KING.  <br><br>History will not recoil that only black men could make America rise up and be true to her ideals and Consittuion...don\'t you see?  white folks had something to do with this awesome brilliant man with his staggering leadership and political skills.<br><br>He ain\'t just black you see...he is white too...like them...and they say it with PRIDE!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078743">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078743" class="dsq-comment-message">oh no you didn\'t just commandeer one of my longheld beliefs (LOL):<br><br>that Black folk are the TRUEST Americans, because WE are the ones who have FOUGHT FOR this country to live up to its ideals. To put practice behind the words.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079131">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079131" class="dsq-comment-message">Great minds think alike.<br>Great ideas have a million authors and failures are orphans, lol<br><br>I am with you ALL the way.<br><br>Frederick Douglass 4th of Jully address is one of my all time favorites.<br><br>No one, but slaves and former slaves, had as much reason to believe in this countries ideals.  Everybody else had it handed to them and they take it for granted. Only black folks and jews understand persecution, and are staunch defenders of civil rights and Constitutional freedoms.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4157847">Den</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4157847" class="dsq-comment-message">Add  the indigneous population to this list. Can you imagine what it must be like to have your home raided by foreigners, treaties broken, straight our lied to and your land taken over while you are herded to an attic to live out your days? That is major mental trauma.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4118938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4118938" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118938" class="dsq-comment-message">While I believe no one loves America more than we do, Native Americans cannot be overlooked.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079681">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4079681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079681" class="dsq-comment-message">"History will not recoil that only black men could make America rise up and be true to her ideals and Consittuion...don\'t you see?"<br><br><br>I have come to believe that black people are the only people in this country capable of forcing America to live up to the ideals she herself put forth.  Every other group will shuck and buck and go along with the program until black people spill their blood and force the system to work the way it\'s supposed to, then they swoop in and reap the rewards.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079809">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079809" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>you said this months ago, about why every other group needed to be on OBama\'s train. Black folk do all the heavy lifting, working, being the battering ram on the door, and after the door\'s busted down, then EVERYBODY ELSE wants to clamor on in, knowing damn well, they didn\'t lift shit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086795">SDG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086795" class="dsq-comment-message">Town you speak the truth.  Nothing makes me angrier than the contempt shown for our people after all the work we\'ve done and continue to do to make this nation act right.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4118900" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4118900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118900" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a blatant admission of our power.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078627">DWS2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078627" class="dsq-comment-message">On November 3rd it was still popular to "take the out" as my sister calls it.  You know... claim to be anything but black.  On November 4th, it was honorable to say you voted for a black man.  On November 30th, the backpedaling toward taking the out resumes.  Has anyone else noticed ads featuring black women with white men.  I don\'t recall seeing that before the election.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079634" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079634" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been seeing them all over the print ads in the City, mostly perfumes ads. But I thought it was just because I never paid attention before. So they <i>are</i> new... Huh...what\'s up with that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4080738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4080738" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080738" class="dsq-comment-message">Letting Black women know they are appealing to all types of men and to keep their options open.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4082007">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082007" class="dsq-comment-message">The fact that black people come in varying shades and hair textures is already a testament to that fact, so I don\'t think that\'s the goal. Perhaps if there were ads where the black women were with Asian or Latino men as well as white men, I would agree with you, but that fact that it\'s ALWAYS white men speaks volumes to the REAL agenda -- furthering the divide between black men and black women.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083275">DWS2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083275" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the feedback.  Now that we are seeing such a strong representation of Black love (Barack and Michelle), the print media suddenly decides it is time to go interracial?  Okay.  So I guess it\'s "fashionable" to get with the sistas again...<br><br>Heartsandflowers, I totally agree that Black women should keep their options open but the timing of these ads and the fact that I have only seen ads with White men with Black women makes me suspicious.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4083532" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083532" class="dsq-comment-message">I have long said that Sistas need to branch out. Nothing wrong with being boo\'d up with Something  New.<br><br>I\'m a bit disconcerted by the emphasis on Black women with White men, though. Not that there\'s anything wrong with it. But it does make me go "Patriarchy much?"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4132981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4132981" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4132981" class="dsq-comment-message">I think BW feel if they date outside the race, it is seen as having given up on the brothas, and selling out.  I\'ve seen BLACK MEN sell out faster when THEY date outside the race than I have BLACK WOMEN.<br><br>I\'m all for keeping my options open - spend time outside this country, and you see for yourself; AMERICA is the only country that has problems seeing interracial couples as just THAT - COUPLING.<br><br>And Brothas in Europe look at sistas in similar fashion as Brothas in the States; no real difference.<br><br>I was more disgusted with that VOGUE cover featuring LeBron James with that "ape" looking smile on his face with Heidi Klum - however, Heidi looked comfortable with it because she\'s married to Seal.<br><br>And the way Heidi talks about Seal, you would think she just discovered the male sex, PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4134124">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134124" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i> I\'ve seen BLACK MEN sell out faster when THEY date outside the race than I have BLACK WOMEN.</i></b><br><br>My experience has been that sistas sell out just as much as brothas when they date outside the race. <br><br>I must say that I find that sistas have a glaring double standard when it comes to interracial dating. We tend to be more lenient when BW date outside the race, but when BM do it it\'s a whole \'nother story. Just reading some of the responses in this convo is proof of that. Can you imagine if BM were talking about how much white women were into them as opposed to BW? They would get slammed by us!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4135089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135089" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135089" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the reason for that leniency you mention is because sistas get it with BOTH BARRELS.  Either we\'re oversexed or sexless; angry or passive; mammy figure or the maid.  We seem not to be able to catch a well-earned break.<br><br>My own experience is that BROTHAS will talk major shyt when they see BWs with non-Black men, and have nerve enough to upbraid US for dating outside the race, even with their white girl on their arm.<br><br>I think we have unique experiences, regarding this, but I have yet to date outside my race - doesn\'t mean I\'m not giving it strong consideration because in the end, I want a man who knows how to honor, treat and respect women; who knows how to be responsible for himself, and that I am not responsible for making him happy - it is about how our relationship enhances and enriches our lives in joint fashion.  Now, if that quality man comes in a package that is not of the same race as my own, but comes in unconditional fashion, who\'s going to turn their back on that in order to be PC?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4135914">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135914" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, I\'m 53 and this is number 3.  <br><br>#1 husband was Black/Cherokee - 13 years<br>#2 White/Pennsylvania/Dutch German- 7 years<br>#3 Black-Jamaican/Canadian- 16 years<br><br>And they are all good! :-)))))</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4138084" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138084" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey CPL, it looks like there\'s a mini-discussion on interracial dating going on within the "Arana Needs to Sit-Down Somewhere" discussion, lol!<br><br>My raised eyebrow was at the fact that interracial coupling regarding Black women tends to always be with White men in these ads. Why not Black women and Latino men? Or Black women and Asian-American men, in fact, that would make more of an impact, my Asian-American male friends and I have the same conversations when it comes to interracial dating, they <b>understand</b>, trust that! The patriarchy in America isn’t “Men are the standard”, it is “<i>White</i> men are the standard”, Lorde’s mythical norm.<br><br>I\'ve traveled extensively in Europe, so I know what you mean. I\'ve gotten a lot of love from men in France, England and Scotland (I must admit, that one surprised me), but Italian men are a whole \'nother story! I remember feeling like the second coming of womanhood the way they were carrying on, lol! I have heard it\'s similar in Greece, but I\'ve never been there, so I guess I\'ll see. I\'m headed to Hungary next summer, so I\'ll have to see how Eastern Europe compares to Western Europe.<br><br>And that\'s when it came to me, I\'m not feeling that love here in America. I agree with you in that while Black men and Black women are held to different standards when it comes to interracial dating, it\'s because we\'re held to different standards in almost every other area in terms of our humanity and desirability. All women are objectified in American culture, but Black women tend to be positioned at the lowest rank, and even then, it\'s as a toy and caricature of who we are in all our complexities.<br><br>I admit when I see Black men with White women, usually I ignore them. But if it\'s a sista, I\'m giving her a "You go GURL!" smile or head nod.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4139485">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4139485" class="dsq-comment-message">That was Gisele not Heidi</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4160808" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4160808" class="dsq-comment-message">Correction noted, thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083737">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083737" class="dsq-comment-message">As far as the ads, I can\'t hate on that because the US is years behind some of the world on that front.  European TV and print has had ads with interracial couples for years, and I\'ve seen some the last few times I visited Canada.  It\'s about time IMO.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4087222" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087222" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t agree with that because Black women tend to think that other groups of men don\'t find them attractive. Also BW are the ones usually holding on to wanting a Black man regardless of whether he\'s a quality man. Then there\'s the slavery baggage. If you compare the opposite response where a lot of Black men have no problem whatsoever coupling with non Black women from F. Douglass on down. I think it\'s great for BW to see it in the media since we are usually denigrated.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4090194">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4090194" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think it\'s great to see at all. Like I said, perhaps if it were BW coupled with Asian, Latino....etc., then I could see your point. However, it\'s ALWAYS BW with WHITE men and that makes me suspicious. It\'s as if there\'s a subliminal message that if you want happiness/success, then your best bet is to choose a white person. <br><br>I would much rather see ads featuring black men with black women, showing that yes, black men desire black women. That\'s what I love about Barack and Michelle Obama. Their relationship totally obliterates the myth that successful black men and women must seek white mates in order to find love and happiness.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4091235" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091235" class="dsq-comment-message">Well Sepia you\'ve stayed your preferences. A lot of BW want to continue the indoctrination of focusing exclusively on BM to their detriment and will be left behind.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111514">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111514" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i>A lot of BW want to continue the indoctrination of focusing exclusively on BM to their detriment and will be left behind.</b></i><br><br>Well heartsandflowers that\'s only if you are of the belief that dating white men is the solution to whatever problem you perceive BW are having in their romantic lives.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111718" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111718" class="dsq-comment-message">No I said quality men you have been focused on white men because you have a problem with it. BW should be looking for ALL men from every background who is suitable and wants them instead of wasting the best years of their lives trying to convince a few low quality pool of men that express their disdain for us that we are worthy of love and loyalty.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121406">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121406" class="dsq-comment-message">h&Fs I agree with you on the quality of the man.  My sister stayed in a 20 year relationship with a married man.  Dude had 8 kids.  She is well educated, and beautiful, yet hung out with someone that was married.  I couldn\'t wrap my brain around that.  She could have chosen a man that was single, smart, clean....yet she chose to settle.  This man was so ignorant.  I think she thought he had the best penis around, I honestly didn\'t see anything he had contributed to my sister.  She settled,,, but has since moved on and still single.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4121582" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121582" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow! She can\'t ever get that time back either. But you know a lot of women do that by holding on to tactics that no longer apply and waiting for their Perfect Black Prince. We have a 2% chance for a quality BM. So a lot of women share men, choose criminals or lower their standards to the point I\'d ask why bother?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4133857">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133857" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i>We have a 2% chance for a quality BM.</i></b><br><br>What is your definition of a "quality BM"?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4134519" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134519" class="dsq-comment-message">Look Sepia, I\'m not sure whether you\'re male or female though I have an idea of what situation I\'m dealing with because you object so soundly to seeing a Black woman with a white male, but have yet to mention the preponderance and historical precedent of Black men choosing whiter-skinned women since Emancipation, but I study history. I don\'t operate from the contract of Black women belonging to Black men and object to the familiarity of complete strangers acting like they own women simply due to skin shade. Not when so many of my darker sisters are made to be objects of ridicule by other BLACK PEOPLE for an uncontrollable circumstance of birth. <br><br>We are always so quick to point to racism from whites but never acknowledge the Black on Black crimes that we\'ve committed against each other. Look how Michelle Obama was treated and how some Black men have had the nerve to imply that Barack could\'ve \'done better\'. Has it not dawned on you the appeal a lot of us had for Barack was because of Michelle? Which only speaks of the fact that so many of us have been denigrated. <br><br>WHY DON"T YOU FOCUS ON THAT INSTEAD? Protecting and uplifting Black women and being your best instead of trying to argue symantics because YOU FEEL THREATENED. We don\'t know each other and if you were being all you could be you would\'ve let this go a long time ago. I could care less about your protests and requests for conditions. <br><br>My definition of a quality man is mine and mine alone. Every woman is different. Why don\'t YOU DEFINE WHAT A QUALITY BLACK MAN IS? But if you are really interested in getting some real knowledge and a reality check you are free to check out wonderful teaching essays from <a href="http://blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com</a> and <a href="http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com</a> <br><br>Otherwise this entire conversation is moot and BS because you\'re just pissed off to hear about women making their own choices that go against your narrow little world!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4135605" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135605" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135605" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit, sounds like your sister settled for an unavailable BM like my aunt settled for staying with her half-White/Black husband who saddled her with 10 kids, and then proceeded to father an additional nine kids with three other women outside the marriage.<br><br>I think that BW feel any BM is better than no BM AT ALL, and I\'m not buying it.  I\'m not into sharing and when Audrey Chapman wrote that book about sistas settling for sharing married Brothas instead of broadening their horizons, I wanted to throw up because Dr. Chapman was appearing to advocate for sistas being mistresses to another sista\'s husband.<br><br>All I saw was the brotha got benefits; two women he could screw on the regular and one he didn\'t have to commit to.<br><br>I think BW are royalty and we deserve to be treated as such; therefore, when we hold ourselves out as queens, our Prince will step to us, and if he\'s in another flavor, you will know he\'s stepping correct.<br><br>I\'d like a quality brotha, but I am willing to wait for a quality MAN.  PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4136338">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4136338" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, CPL.  I was 17and pregnant when I got married .  Back then, you got preggers, you get married.  I thought I was in love, and I cared for my husband.  We had 2 beautiful daughters, and remain friends.  I realized, Iwas just too young.  I went to college after I had my children.  My dad saved $$ for me to go to college and was highly disappointed when I got pregnant in my senior year of high school.  I still graduated intop of my class, and he still delivered the $$ for college even after I got married.  I was the first of 11 children in my family to go to college.  I have a wonderful marriage now with a caring, loving and kindred Soul.  Some day Your Prince will come! :-)))<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKyHQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKyHQ</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4139356">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4139356" class="dsq-comment-message">She sounds like me.. Single isn\'t so bad though. Marriage is not what it should be, you see he was cheating. I\'d rather be single than kissing husband after oral with another woman.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4133694">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133694" class="dsq-comment-message"><b></i>No I said quality men you have been focused on white men because you have a problem with it.</i></b><br><br>The focus has been on white men because the initial post was about the sudden surge of BW-WM couplings, to which you said it was simply showing black women that we have "options". IMO, your posts were also implying that if black women start dating interracially, it would solve their relationship problems, which is simply untrue. <br><br>I do agree that quality is important and BW should look for men from all backgrounds, including black men with blue collar backgrounds, but when you suggest that to some sistas they look upon it as "settling".</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4134445" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134445" class="dsq-comment-message">I never said anything about blue collar workers. You continue to project your version of things. I stand by everything I\'ve said. Black women should know their worth and know how beautiful and desirable and WANTED we are by quality men of all races. If you have a problem with seeing that expressed in advertisements or in practice that\'s your choice but you don\'t speak for all of us. We belong to ourselves and live our lives individually. We should be responsible to no one but ourselves. The sooner some BW realize that the better of we\'ll all be. Maybe Black people will stop putting down girls who have dark skin and nappy hair and so many will not grow up feeling and acting like the mules of the world.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112027">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112027" class="dsq-comment-message">What?  you haven\'t seen the liquor and cigarette ads?   Newport?  Courvoisier?     They all have black men and women....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4132894" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4132894" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia, IKEA runs commercials of multi-ethnic familes; I saw one that was real cute - Asian Dad, Black Mother, they were snuggling under the quilts on the IKEA bed and their little one (Asian-Black racially mixed) came in and interrupted them...LOL, it was cute and sexy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4134212">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134212" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve seen that commercial. IKEA is quick to have the multi-ethnic families, but they make sure to have the white families, too. I don\'t recall seeing them air a commercial with a black family. Hmm.....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4138194" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138194" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember that one!! The main reason I remember that one is because the first time I saw it, I was watching tv with my friends Tim (he\'s Korean-American), and we were like "Hey, look at that! I\'ve never seen that combo before! etc.", and then there was an awkward moment, LOL!!! But it\'s all good, so yeah, I remember that commercial....life, I tell ya!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4159892" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4159892" class="dsq-comment-message">I date mostly Asian men which people find interesting. <br><br>My greatgrandfather was what would be considered "Chinese Jamaican" so that kind of thing is not new for me. Mostly all of my friends are black with last names like Chung due to this. Many West Indians have those mixtures especially where my mom is from in JA where all of her close friends were Asian.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4160346" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4160346" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I moved to America from the West Indies, I know what you\'re talking about. It\'s this intimate knowledge of British West Indies that led me to say that English-speaking West Indies have <i>just</i> as much colorism issues as African America, if not more. Don\'t even get me started on the complexity of how interracial relationships are both more accepted, but also more indicative of the colorist nature of how we look at Blackness, you can only go so deep on a blog, lol!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4157951">Den</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4157951" class="dsq-comment-message">Black men believe the whole world is their dating oyster , black women should have the same attitude. For me there is no automatic oath of allegience. You want my loyalty black man go earn it just like everybody else has to.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4158384" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4158384" class="dsq-comment-message">And that\'s all I was trying to say. And I think it\'s good for a darker skinned woman to see someone who kinda looks like her smiling and happy in an ad. And if it\'s with a white guy so be it. Maybe some young girl will realize she has other options than the ones she being taught to believe.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4138148" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138148" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t read your post before I made mine down below. But basically: ditto!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082015" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s been in a lot of fashion ads. The Gap and Old Navy always have Oluchi (fly African Model) with a white love interest in their pictorals. Sigh...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078650">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078650" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikrah,<br><br>Whew!  Was I ever glad when I got to the sentence..you can read the rest of this tripe at...I was like WTF up until then...no rikyrah did NOT write this.<br><br>You are so dead right after that sentence when you commenced to \'breaking it down\'<br><br>But I want you to know, that Harold Ford does not have any wavy hair AT ALL, in fact those tightly individually coiled strands (colloquially called naps) on his head are what scream BLACK. & why he keeps that hair closely cropped.<br><br>In terms of why Obama chose Michelle. I offer 2 clues, the first is the one he wrote about in his book Dreams of My Father and mentioned during his historic speech on race in Philly.  He said, \'my grandmother loved me to death yet she was afraid and would look down, when black men passed on the street and that she made remarks which made him cringe\'  The second clue is that the parents of his HS prom date refused to let him escort her because she was white, and he had a white girlfriend at Columbia, but eventually saw it would not work, as she could not understand how race impacted him.<br><br>I often wondered how soul searing it had to be for him to know only white faces as the face of love, yet know how his grandmother was fearful of all that he was \'a black male\' in our society. How does a developing mind reconcile that? That had to be one helluva cognitive dissonance with loud discordant chords strumming through his soul as he searched to determine what it meant for him.<br><br>I imagined he had to ask, how can I love a white woman who I know, based on my grandmother, will at the very core of her being be fearful of me?  His intelligence would not let him choose a woman and have to doubt whether she truly could be committed to him given that his own grandmother harbored deep racial fears and surely he could not beleive that any person could love him more deeply than she.<br><br>His reason for calling himself black is also somewhat addressed in Dreams for My Father when he says, that he stopped telling people his mother was white, because he realized that he was actually seeking their acceptance on the basis of her race. It was a way for him to coerce them into looking beyond his race yet he realized if that was necessary they were unaccepting of him as he was not his mothers race. Thus he determined to cease telling his mothers race.  Michelle talks about how she nor her mother knew for a long time that his mother was white, because Barack never talked about it.<br><br>I disagree with you about Michelle erasing anything premised on Toots and them not raising him right.<br><br>Rather, I think as Barack said during his run for the US Senate, if I am black when it comes to anything bad, like being stopped by the police or trying to hail a cab...why then should I be anything other than black when being recognized for the GOOD that I do and the achievements I have attained.<br><br>Barack says take my STRENGHTS and emblazon them black for no black male is the sum of the negative stereotypes that society presumes is true.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4078843" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078843" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>if I am black when it comes to anything bad, like being stopped by the police or trying to hail a cab...why then should I be anything other than black when being recognized for the GOOD that I do and the achievements I have attained.</i> <br><br>Yes, exactly! Whiterosebuddy - do you (or anyone else) remember when and where he made this remark? I\'m assuming it was during an interview or in one of his books? If so, I\'d love to see the full exchange...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079100">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079100" class="dsq-comment-message">It was part of an interview. I recall the words but not the precise event. I will think on it though, I am almost certain it was during the Senate campaign, & questions came from an interviewer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079485">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079485" class="dsq-comment-message">claudia_m & whiterosebuddy, the except  from this article was from 60 Minute interview with Barack - Steve Kroft. <br><br><br>February 19, 2007 <br>Obama\'s \'Colorblind\' Double Bind<br>By Clarence Page<br><br>"There are African-Americans who don\'t think that you\'re black enough, who don\'t think that you have had the required experience," reporter Steve Kroft asked Obama as they cruised Chicago\'s South Side during a recent "60 Minutes" profile.<br><br> "The truth of the matter is," Obama mused, gazing at the neighborhoods outside their vehicle\'s windows, "when I\'m walking down the south side of Chicago and visiting my barbershop and playing basketball in some of these neighborhoods, those aren\'t questions I get asked."<br><br>No, those are the kind of questions some people ask about you when you\'re the first black presidential candidate to have a viable chance of winning.<br><br>"I also notice when I\'m catching a cab," he quipped. "Nobody\'s confused about that, either.<br><br>Read complete article:<br><br><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/obamas_colorblind_double_bind.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4082036" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082036" class="dsq-comment-message">THANK YOU for finding this, spirit_55z. This article needs to be put back into circulation... thanks so much!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4078753" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078753" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Or the green-eyed, wavy-haired Ford, Jr.?</i><br><br>They would have picked Ford, because he\'s high-yella with green eyes, but if he doesn\'t have that texturizer on his naps, the naps would give him away as a brotha.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079670" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079670" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079670" class="dsq-comment-message">Why are you hating on Dark Sith\'s S-Curl? I remember the night of Obama\'s last debate, it was looking super shiny. It must have been the Olive Oil Sheen. *smirking*</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4080726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4080726" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080726" class="dsq-comment-message">You know he\'s hoping for children as white as snow with hair that blows in the wind, you know, the accidental black children.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4081603" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081603" class="dsq-comment-message">That gene pool is iffy, heartsandflowers.  His first child with Snowflake might come out looking like Wesley Snipes because of a throwback gene, and it doesn\'t necessarily have to come from his side of the clan, either.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4082011">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4082011" class="dsq-comment-message">That would be so poetic.  God has a sense of humour, and it just might happen.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087410" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4087410" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087410" class="dsq-comment-message">I know and you know but does he? Haha! It would be cosmic retribution except I\'d feel bad for the kid to have him for a dad.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111956">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111956" class="dsq-comment-message">You are so wrong for that.   SO. WRONG.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4135454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135454" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135454" class="dsq-comment-message">That child grows up and writes a tell-all book about what it\'s like growing up Ford.  The book will compete with the one I expect Bridget McCain will write about growing up McCain. LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4159692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4159692" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4159692" class="dsq-comment-message">"His first child with Snowflake might come out looking like Wesley Snipes because of a throwback gene, and it doesn\'t necessarily have to come from his side of the clan, either."<br><br>Laughing my ass off. He will then drop her like a hot potato.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4160748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4160748" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4160748" class="dsq-comment-message">Harold\'s one Negro I don\'t think we will be as forgiving as we have with other self-haters.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4081600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4081600" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081600" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m hating on it because he knows he don\'t have "good hair", or at least he wouldn\'t have it without that S-Curl.<br><br>And he should know better than to put Olive Oil Sheen on with a heavy hand, when, like Brylcream, a little dab\'ll do ya.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4081993" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081993">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081993" class="dsq-comment-message">But even Harold was TOO BLACK when they found out his ass loved white women.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4085394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4085394" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085394" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFLMAO...his high-yellowness didn\'t protect him from those "Harold, Call Me" ads Bob Corker ran on his ass in defeating him for that Senate Seat.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078758">kalagenesis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078758" class="dsq-comment-message">It is funny like Marcus Garvey once said the idea of race is one of convenience for the White man.When looking at ancient civilizations the same people who would be called nigger,or discriminated against in this society are considered White or non Black to discredit African people of any achievement.This is happening with Obama.He is a Black man but because he does something great all these people are trying to claim him.If he was a killer  OR RAPIST DO YOU THINK WHITE PEOPLE WOULD CARE IF HIS MOTHER WAS WHITE?NO HE WOULD BE JUST ANOTHER DARKIE THAT WHITE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NO USE FOR.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4078966" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078966" class="dsq-comment-message">You sound like Chris Rock in one of his concerts, when he talked about how OJ got off for killing his wife.<br><br>Re-phrase: <b> "If Barack Obama is Barry Dunham, the local Metro bus-driver, he\'d be "Barry the Bus-Driving Murderer."</b><br><br>Garvey laid it out and sixty years later, Chris Rock picked it UP.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078996">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078996" class="dsq-comment-message">They kill me with the "not really black" assigned to any & all who do not fit neatly into the stereotype. It\'s easier with Barack, that\'s all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4078767" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078767" class="dsq-comment-message">As for whites wanting to claim Barack:<br><br>They will claim him until he puts a foot wrong; then he gets slung under the bus with every other Black person.<br><br>And Marie Arana has issues - both with her own ethnic identity and everyone else\'s.  She would do well to address her OWN issues before trying to tell people what constitutes being Black.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078827">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078827" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>They will claim him until he puts a foot wrong; then he gets slung under the bus with every other Black person.</i><br><br>You know that, CPL.<br><br>I know that, CPL.<br><br>And, I know Barack knows it too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078775">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078775" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   I\'m  **bowing down**  at YOUR ANALYSIS!   WHEW!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>  THANK YOU!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Let me know when I may ARISE!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078778" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078778">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078778" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t wait to see how Black he is when he pisses too many white folk off.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084757" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084757">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084757" class="dsq-comment-message">He won\'t be black, he won\'t be biracial;<br>He\'ll be a NIGGER.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4078984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4078984">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4078984" class="dsq-comment-message">As I shared in an earlier post today, that chick and all the other folk who come with this bullshit, CHECK YOURSELVES!!!!    These mofos didn\'t see Barack and Michelle Obama coming, and now that they have arrived, they are trying to re-write the playbook for them and blacks, and that\'s not gonna happen!  <br><br>Being black is like holding the all the Aces in deck of cards.<br><br>"Sorry, you’re just going to have to deal with the full complexity of Black humanity"<br><br> Sure you right, rikyrah</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079083">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079083" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh yes whiterosebuddy did there.  Without BLACK FOLK, there would be no one else in America to help folk gauge their self  worth-- their greatness.  White folks need to appropriate or sanction what is great for us so they can define their own greatness.  Sistas, don\'t get me started!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079106" href="http://www.inkognegro.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Inkognegro</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079106" class="dsq-comment-message">Yall insist on torturing yallselves, dont, ya.<br><br><br>The title alone said all i needed to hear.<br><br><br>If its entitled He\'s Not Black, all the rest is clearly folk talking amongst themselves.<br><br>Ms. Arana seems like a nice enough and educated enough woman, but she knows piddle about being Black in America, therefore i got no time for her.<br><br>this article was MUCH more interesting<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802233_2.html?sid=ST2008112900984&s_pos=" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081255">zackboston</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081255" class="dsq-comment-message">yes i agree.  thank you for link.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4159627" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4159627" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4159627" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4159627" class="dsq-comment-message">Torturing ourselves...lol!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4079155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079155">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079155" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, this is nothing new, is it? On a (maybe) more frivolous level, the same thing happened when Vanessa Williams became Miss America. There were lots of "she doesn\'t look THAT black" comments...until those photos were printed in Penthouse.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4081586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4081586" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081586" class="dsq-comment-message">Dayum, the Miss America pagent couldn\'t snatch that title back from homegirl quick enough.  Their problem was they had to pass it to another sista.<br><br>They gave Vanessa back to the Black Community faster than a mangy dog could spread fleas.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083835">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083835" class="dsq-comment-message">True dat but between the Grammys, Emmys, platimum records, and starring roles in TV and movies it\'s safe to say Ms. Williams got the last laugh on these mofos.  In fact, in recent years Miss America tried to reclaim her and get her to come back as a judge and she pretty much told them to kiss her <i>black</i> ass.<br><br>LMAO.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4085375" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085375" class="dsq-comment-message">I would have, too.  Considering the trash that wins the pagents and then we find out they\'re drunks or drug addicts and are still allowed to keep their crowns, I don\'t blame Vanessa.<br><br>Plus, she turned out to be a damned fine actress and singer (another candidate for who could have played Etta James in Cadillac Blues).</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4118875" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118875" class="dsq-comment-message">Ugh you had to mention that movie! I am soooo sick of Beyonce trying to force a movie career on us. She can\'t act. The end!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4135417" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135417" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135417" class="dsq-comment-message">She needs to go and give Jigga some crumbsnatchers who will have half a chance because she\'s still beautiful - even if she is a no-talent actress and low-talent singer who\'s getting by on hype.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135598" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135598" class="dsq-comment-message">HAHA does she even want kids?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084669">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084669" class="dsq-comment-message">WOOO HOOO!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079371">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079371" class="dsq-comment-message">Who is this person to tell Barack Obama how he should define himself?  And, I mean, he looks like a black person (if this is coming out wrong I\'ll take my licks, don\'t hold back). I\'m sure that the people around him, whether in a positive manner or a negative manner, related to him as a black person. <br><br>Didn\'t this author recently write another stupid article about race? Her name rings bells for me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079395" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079395" href="http://www.sportsonmymind.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MODI</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079395" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah, I think that that this line said it all:<br><br>"When White folks claim bi-racial Pookey that just robbed the liquor store and shot 3 people, then I’ll know it’s not just about trying to divorce Obama from the Black community."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4079608" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079608" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079608" class="dsq-comment-message">...again?...We\'re gonna have this conversation <i>again</i>? Lord have mer...<br><br>I take the line that it is up to the bi/multi-racial person to define themselves. Society may define them, because that\'s what race is, a societal construction. However, I believe the individual has the final word. <br><br>Obama says he\'s a Black man with a White mother and Black father, who was raised by his White grandparents, and who married a Black woman and has two Black daughters. So I see Obama as a Black man. End of story. <br><br>America is just gonna have to catch up to the complexity of Blackness. To quote rikyrah: <b>"WTF do you think Black folk are?”</b><br><br>And you make a great point about telenovellas and Spanish TV in general. The rare, once-in-a-blue-moon time I see a Black Latin person, it\'s Mammie crying over Monsignor’s children. For real. So my Latin@ sistren and breddren, as much as I am a HUGE proponent of coalitions, I will allow you the space and time to get your own house in order before attempting to decorate mine. And I know this is a serious topic that is currently being held in the Latino communities...much like our own in the Black community as it relates to color-struckness. (Don\'t even get me started on color-struckness!!)<br><br>If Black folk are still running around talking about the 1/36th Cherokee princess they have in their bloodlines because of some picture they saw of great-great-great-Granny Mae where she was wearing plaits and they wanna claim that as Native American, then Obama can be a Proud Black Man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4080710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4080710" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080710" class="dsq-comment-message">That was funny! Esp considering Cherokees owned slaves and tried to deny Cherokee Nation status to thousands of Blacks with a direct Cherokee line.<br><br>Colorstruck = Black on Black racism<br><br>If white people can tout their \'preference\' for whiteness above all else and we denounce that, then we need to get real about Black racism and the whole keen features/good/hair/skin tone crap.<br><br>This is why so many of us (particularly browner-skinned girls) have self-esteem issues and it\'s not coming from whites. White people are not measuring skin shade.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4081569" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081569" class="dsq-comment-message">Word UP on this, Hearts and Flowers.  Whites may have promoted their ideas of beauty, but many in our midst bought off on that shyt.<br><br>My Cherokee-Choctaw-Creole Maternal Grandmother didn\'t buy that her light skin, long, wavy hair and keen features were the epitome of beauty.  She pissed off my great-grandparents when she ran off and married my grandfather, a direct descendant of African slaves, and not the Creole/half White guy her parents chose because she already identified with being a Colored woman in the 1920s.  She purposely wanted her children to have that rich, mahogany color of my grandfather and said as much.  My mother and her siblings were not allowed to favorably treat others who were light-skinned; that shyt earned them whippings from my grandmother, for whom I am named.<br><br>My paternal grandmother, also a blend of Choctaw-Blackfoot-Seminole-Creole, had serious color issues and got pissed when all her sons married medium-brown to dark brown skinned women.  The only grandchildren she had any interest in were the ones my aunt and her half-white husband had.  Never mind that the husband was a serial adulterer who fathered nine kids with three other women outside the marriage; when my aunt wanted to leave, my color-struck granny persuaded her to stay with my whoring uncle until the day came that my uncle tried to run over my aunt in the street in downtown Houston, with one of his mistresses in the car.<br><br>I don\'t know why my uncle thought he could go home after that scene, but he did, and caught a bullet from my aunt; she\'d had enough.  Imagine if my aunt had been properly taught the self-esteem she needed; she was a truly beautiful woman with waist-length hair and dark chocolate colored skin, but because she was taught light was right - she stayed in a marriage that outlived its shelf life the day my oldest cousin was born.<br><br>Sorry to rant, but these stories bring up these memories for me, and the shyt I\'ve had to fight on my own level since I was a teen-ager and began dating guys who grew up with these warped foolishness of what constitutes being Black in America and warped standards of beauty among Black women.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081968">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081968" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, your family history is SOOOO INTERESTING!!! <br><br>When is the book coming out???? I would love to read more. My Cuban granny had enough with my cheating grandfather and cut his ear off with a Machete. Maybe I need to write a book too!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4083182" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083182" class="dsq-comment-message">Y\'all, we are :here: We need to sit down somewhere and write a book...times are hard, I need to upgrade my hustle, lol!<br><br>My father is a Jewish third generation biracial man (basically, my biracial grandparents kept the bloodlines half-and-half, lol), and my mother is 1/4 Indian (relating to India, not Native America), 3/4 African woman. But this is common to Blackness, that\'s what gets me the most about this whole discussion.<br><br>America, and  people of other nationalities who buy into the European mindset of beauty, refuse to speak truth to power about the beauty of Blackness, and (let\'s just keep it real) <i> how much they want us</i>. We\'ve got hundreds of thousands of millions of Black folk with almost every nation/tribe/tongue in their bloodlines, but everyone wants to act like they don\'t know how it got there.<br><br>Riiiiiight!<br><br>I walk with my head high, because my parents let me know that despite the multitude of cultures and races in my blood, I am and always will be a Black woman. It could just be the West Indian background (my mother is Trini and my father is Jamaican), we\'ve always been very Black Pride/Black Power. (Marcus Garvey, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, etc.)<br><br>The world may put us on the bottom. But when I look outside and I see our many complexions, shades, and cultures, I know when the lights come off there\'s a whole other story being told!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4085332" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085332" class="dsq-comment-message">You not lying, JunePearl.  In the UK, those Brit white guys make no hesitation in letting it be known how desirable they find us, and not because of the sexual thing, either.  They\'re just into us as women, which I found refreshing in watching the Black Brit guys compete with white Brit guys for the attentions of Black Women.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091009">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091009" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL: I\'m going to London in March...Now which guys where find us attractive? I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4091394" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091394" class="dsq-comment-message">Try Oxford for starters.<br><br>The guys there are intellectuals and the way they say stuff with that British accent is a major turn-on; but be warned, they\'re not into good dental hygene (which was a major turn-off for me, LOL.  I like guys with teeth)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091810">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091810" class="dsq-comment-message">Teeth... the first thing I check. I\'m sorry but I can\'t deal with a jacked mouth. I\'m just saying...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092530">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092530" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMAO!!!  islandgirl550, cause you don\'t have no room in your samsonite for a set-o-dentures!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4117683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4117683" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4117683" class="dsq-comment-message">They don\'t put fluoride in their water. Some guys do have nice teeth and they are far better dressers. You will see nary a baggy pant in sight amongst the Black guys. You\'ll feel right at home there\'s a huge Carib/continental African core group there. I felt very American when I lived there. You\'ll find plenty of guys just walking down the street and interacting with the population. Just smile and be open to mingling. Of course you don\'t have to go across the pond to meet quality men who\'d find you attractive Islandgirl.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4133055" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133055" class="dsq-comment-message">The guys with a few pounds in their pocket, H&F, will keep their teeth up and such, but the average working "bloke" can\'t be bothered when his teeth fall out, and that bothers ME.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4133281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4133281" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133281" class="dsq-comment-message">But we don\'t want no scrubs! Actually one of the bloggers I met in Denver had teeth the color of ripe corn. I could not believe they were so yellow and he wasn\'t a smoker. It was so distracting trying to have a conversation. Teeth do matter.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135352" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135352" class="dsq-comment-message">EWWWW, and in America, with all the low-cost access to dental care, that brotha had no damned excuse for his teeth looking like an ear of corn, except either he was too lazy or too scared to go and get that shyt treated.<br><br>My ex-boss has a mouth full of decayed teeth that are now starting to cause her health problems elsewhere.  She might end up with dentures - but the reason she wouldn\'t go to the dentist and get fillings or root canals when it was feasible?<br><br>She would have to take pain meds after treatment and that would interfere with getting her drink on!!!!!  She wants a man and wonders why the hell they run away when she opens her mouth and foul stench emerges....EWWWWWWWWw</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135594" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135594" class="dsq-comment-message">Well the guy was white actually but it was very unsightly.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135624" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135624" class="dsq-comment-message">Double EWWW, because he really has no excuse; he can get his grill hooked up on credit.....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4135782" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135782" class="dsq-comment-message">HAHA. How do you know he has credit?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4157794" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4157794" class="dsq-comment-message">They get credit easier than we do.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;ducks&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4133071" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133071" class="dsq-comment-message">And you\'re right about the baggy pants deal among the young Black Brits; I was actually surprised to kind of see a few saggy drawers on the white teens there, but that\'s from watching MTV...</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4112721" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112721" class="dsq-comment-message">European men have always had a thing for Black American women. I\'ve always wondered how they look at Black women in their own country...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4157314">Den</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4157314" class="dsq-comment-message">They do? As a born and bred black woman living in London would like to know where these mystery black men and white men are. Black men in  the UK love white women, over 40% of them in relationships are not with black women.  Trust me, single black women with child or not child with decent job is alive and well just like her US counterpart.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4157780" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4157780" class="dsq-comment-message">Den, they were in Oxford where I spent the summer studying, but I\'m sure you would know better than me.  I just related my experience with Brit White guys, because ironically enough, the Black guys paid no attention to me until a white guy did.  I probably should have clarified that in my statement as well.<br><br>I want to know what is the appealing mystery of white women for Black men.  Not that it would change anything.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4085284" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085284" class="dsq-comment-message">Unfortunately, because of the color issue among Black families, that incident with my aunt is probably more commonplace than reported.<br><br>I just hated she stayed with my uncle, bore him 10 kids and he still strayed outside the marriage, which, by the way, was totally shotgun (cause she was not of legal age, even though she looked older than she was), until her beauty faded and she was too worn out to start over with a man who would have loved her for herself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084737">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084737" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m so with you CPL on this dark-skinned/light-skinned issue.  If it weren\'t for my grandma Rena, mother and sisters I\'d be a complete and utter mess.  Grandma always told all 8 of her granddaughters we were the brightest,most beautiful children she knew.  She reinforced the mantra with every visit.<br><br>I was 17 when I met my first husband. He was 19. He was black, cherokee, white, all rolled up in there.  I have mahoney brown skin.   I had long wavy hair down the middle of my back.  When he took me to meet his mother, she oohed and awed all over me.    When she left the room  I heard her tell her daughter.  "Indeed, Lucy, she\'s got pretty hair, but she\'s soooooo dark!"  I\'m was like oh shit, what have I gotten myself into?  It was the first time, I\'d every had heard another black person talk like that to me.<br><br>When I asked my ex husband WTF?  he said oh, don\'t pay her any mind, that woman is crazy.  I love mother, but the woman is just silly crazy."  I loved him more and took his word that he loved me just as I was. <br><br>My mother-in-law kept the remarks to herself when it came to me, but she\'d still remark on other folk\'s skin tone, hair,  and she\'d make references to my daughters when they were born.  My ex husband would tell her to shut up and mind her damn business.   The marriage lasted 13 years.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4089437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4089437" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4089437" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow! No CPL we need to talk about the damage to Black women that\'s been perpetrated by US to each other. The assault on BW starts early. We don\'t necessarily know of the racism practiced by whites but we can ALL relate to the racism by Blacks with all that nonsense. And then people say they can\'t figure out why the kids always choose the white doll! Add that to a bunch of fatherless kids and we can see why so many are so destructive.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4133110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4133110" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133110" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree -  we sistas can be uglier to one another than cats in an alleyway.  I think its more "Willie Lynch" syndrome than whites actually perpetuating it themselves.  All they have to do is plant the seed of racism and sure as hell, some self-hating Negro comes along and waters it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4081944">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4081944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081944" class="dsq-comment-message">"White people are not measuring skin shade."<br><br>So true. My white friends cannot see the skin shade difference that I can see. Maybe it\'s in their programming. But as Q-Tip once said, "Black is Black."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087225" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4087225" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087225" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope they see people as white or non white period. Any variations they notice is after they\'ve spent time hanging around other Blacks</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4112114" href="http://www.seesaw.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Liza Diamond</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112114" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe most whites see only white or black, but  Jews - I\'m one - pretty much always try to notice  if someone\'s MOT (Member Of the Tribe i.e. Jewish.) And my Italian American friends notice if someone\'s a paisan, and I\'ve learned to also. <br><br> I\'m always asking, am I white or Jewish? And the answer depends totally on context. It\'s been my experience that I feel most  awkwardly Jewish when I\'m around WASPs , particularly if they are dominant in a local population, because I feel so Other. Particularly because I grew up in a time of quotas and was very aware of where we were welcome and where we were not.<br><br>On a day to day basis, yeah, I\'m white. Pasty even.  But I notice.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4159469" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4159469" class="dsq-comment-message">Hearts and flowers-<br><br>What you call black racism is what is called internalized racism which is caused by years of indocrination and socialization of white supremacy-anything closer to white is desirable and better. Blacks as well as Asians, Hispanics and others have this same sorry problem so to say tat it does not come from whites or by extension whiteness is inaccurate. <br><br>By the way, whites do see color and have for centuries. They have 2 eyes and they work. I will never forget the day when a white couple complimented my mother on her "none ethnic features".<br><br>Its unfortunate.<br><br>When I meet up with blacks who have moderate to severe symptoms of the slave mentality, I can only shake my head and feel sorry for them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4160683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4160683" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4160683" class="dsq-comment-message">We can all have and suffer from some form of it. The key is recognizing it and then deciding to get past it. Calling it institutional racism removes a certain level of responsibility and has less of an impact. I\'m aware of where it stems from and none of us are immune from it. White people are so quick to deny they see race. It\'s this false sense of liberals\' hipster racism under the guise of being PC. But why do you feel the need to try to correct people in how they use terminology and form their thoughts on a subject? That in and of itself comes across a bit condescending and can derail getting to core issues to dismantle, discuss and resolve them.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084624">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084624" class="dsq-comment-message">"I take the line that it is up to the bi/multi-racial person to define themselves. Society may define them, because that\'s what race is, a societal construction. However, I believe the individual has the final word." <br><br>-Very good point and I agree with it.<br>Someone on this thread mentioned Rev. Wright; another good point.<br>When the \'god damn America" sound bites came out, the hand wringing started:<br>"Oh, how could Obama just sit there and hear this black preacher say this?"<br>"Ohhhh, I\'m going to faint!"<br>I didn\'t hear anyone say, "Well, he\'s not black, he\'s biracial."<br><br>President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has defined himself as BLACK.<br><br>Deal with it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091619">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091619" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  SPEAK!!!  :&gt;)  CO-SIGN!!  :&gt;)<br><br><br><i>I didn\'t hear anyone say, "Well, he\'s not black, he\'s biracial."</i><br><br>ORRRRR- that he heard the Rev\'s statements with ONLY  <b>ONE EAR</b><br>and <b>ONE HALF of his BRAIN</b>    :&gt;)<br><br>He WAS considered ALL BLACK by people making that statement.<br><br>WHEW!!!  :&gt;)   **shakin\' my head**</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4118927">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118927" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you.<br>You are absolutely correct; Barack Obama was considered "ALL BLACK."<br>There were NONE of the semantics we are hearing now...now that he is "President-Elect".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4112571" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112571" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I didn\'t hear anyone say, "Well, he\'s not black, he\'s biracial."</i><br><br>I just had to bring that back to the FRONT!! We all know who it is that\'s really gonna have Obama\'s back when he makes an unpopular decision.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4079635">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079635" class="dsq-comment-message">And the first moment he #$%# up, they will make sure to let ERRYBODY know "He black."</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4079689" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4079689" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course! That\'s why I\'m side-eyeing this Arana lady.<br><br>Which is all the more reason Obama shouldn\'t take the Black community for granted. Because we will have his back when everyone else leaves him. We know it\'s coming, we <i>know</i> it\'s coming.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4081472" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4081472" class="dsq-comment-message">Hopefully, Barack will not have to have his Michael Jackson/OJ/Michael Jordan lesson from this.  At least he\'s declared himself to be a Black Man, while Jackson, Jordan and OJ ran from being Black as fast as they could and they still couldn\'t get away.<br><br>We stood by Michael Jackson until that second allegation of child molestation. The only reason we did was that first kid got fat paid to drop the charges and we smelled something foul.  But a second allegation ten years later?  I wrote Michael off after the first one because I believed if he wasn\'t guilty, he shouldn\'t have paid the money and fought those parents in court.  He caved and I got suspicious then and there.<br><br>We stood by OJ\'s dumb ass when he was acquitted of killing his white ex-wife, only to watch that fool trash his freedom because he thought he was above retrieving his Heisman Trophy and other artifacts in the proper way. Now his black ass is prison bound - he\'d better not drop the soap.<br><br>We stood by Michael Jordan as the allegations of his heavy gambling and his cheating on Juanita became public knowledge that tarnished his "good guy" image.  We watched him pay money to his mistresses not to rat his ass out - and one of them had a history of purposely getting preggers by pro-athletes so she\'d have a damned mealticket for the next 20 years; but God help a sista if she gets pregger by a pro athlete because she has to take his ass to court, submit to DNA testing before the fool gives her a red nickel.<br><br>And what did supporting them going through their crisis get the Black Community as a WHOLE?  Did they re-embrace US; start giving back to our Communities?  HELL, NO; they ran from US...AGAIN. Earning the Black Community a large allegation that we\'re willing to give the bad actors in our race a free pass because they\'re African-American - which is an allegation I\'ve never bought into.<br><br>I think we all hope Obama won\'t take the Black Community for granted; unlike these characters I\'ve named, I have no doubt if this brotha takes us for granted, he does so at his own peril and we will let him feel the sting of erroneous thinking very early in the game.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4080064">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4080064" class="dsq-comment-message">In the several hundred articles that I\'ve read over the election cycle, I cannot begin to fathom how many times I\'ve come across the following phrase: "Barack Obama, a son born to his Kenyan father and his white mother from Kansas..." The very fact that Obama or his campaign had to repeat this phrase ad nauseaum doesn\'t signify that we\'ve entered a post-racial or race transcendent society. Rather it simply confirms that whites were unwilling to accept him unless there was a redeemable quality about him: his white mother from Midwestern USA.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083018">NinaG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083018" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083018" class="dsq-comment-message">"Don’t none of these folks look like present day West Africans.<br><br>Look at West Africans.<br><br>Now, look at the range of colors amongst the Black community here in America."<br><br>I know this isn\'t the focus of the post, but this statement really bothers me.  West Africans are a range of colors as well, some of it due to "mixing" with Europeans.  I\'m sick of hearing Black Americans telling me that I don\'t look African...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083149">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083149" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br><br>Thank you for this post. I have been so bothered by this topic and I am glad that you started this conversation again.  I am just scratching my head when I hear people especially those OVER 50 act as if most biracial people have not always self-identified as black. But, I guess you are right, they never thought that once they had a "choice" that most would chose to still be black or embrace their African heritage.<br><br>If they only knew how offensive it is for them to wonder why he calls himself black. Maybe some people like being black. I know that I love it!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4085496">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4085496" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085496" class="dsq-comment-message">I think we\'re on the same page. This HAS been bothering me  A LOT because they could not let the victory go down 30 days before they started this BS. Then have the nerve to outright say "why would he want to do that\'? I really want somebody to be asked on spot to finish that sentence. Tell us what is so bad about being black and let their true selves be revealed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4083446" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Chambers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083446" class="dsq-comment-message">One commenter on my blog noted that her\'s is a Hispanic point of view. Elsewhere in the Americas or the Caribbean (not as defined in brit. colonies) they have refined castes of mestizoes and mulattoes to a science. That is not the case here and there are historical reasons why going back to basics like the fact that whites have always been the majority since this place was a frontier.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4088024">pluky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4088024" class="dsq-comment-message">Elsewhere in the Americas? I suggest a visit to New Orleans or D.C. for a little schooling in just how finely we here in the USofA can differentiate skin tone and hair quality.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111732">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111732" class="dsq-comment-message">quadroons,  octoroons, anyone?  mulatto, halfbreed, redbone,   I could go on...  At a very surface level, in the United States of America, you are what you look like.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4134749" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134749" class="dsq-comment-message">creole, oreo, high yellow, passing, nuyorican.... (geechi/gullah - different, but related)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4138377" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138377" class="dsq-comment-message">Do any of y\'all remember the mess Beyonce caught when she kept referring to herself as Creole? Or when she told Latina magazine that she wishes she could have been Latina?<br><br>Oh, and the British West Indies are not immune to this either. Don\'t even get me started...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138531">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138531" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember it, and she needs to stop it too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083459">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083459" class="dsq-comment-message">So that\'s the new criteria, eh? I know for a fact that I had several white great grands and great-great grands in my family tree, so I think from this day forward I will only refer to myself as biracial.  I\'m sure the salespeople that follow me around will understand once I explain this to them.<br><br>&lt;/snark&gt;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083935" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083935" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083935">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083935" class="dsq-comment-message">My great great grandmother was a full blood Cherokee Indian......hey! why do I have these damn college loans to pay back then! My education should have been FREE! And I want in on my casino money too!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111465" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111465" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111465" class="dsq-comment-message">Both of my great grands were Cherokee but that makes us 1/8 and so noooo go! Cherokees owned slaves after all and not exactly looking to acknowledge any Black cousins!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084115" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084115">ljf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084115" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, let\'s make January 20th, 2009 Biracial day.  So when we are followed by security personnel in shopping areas, filling out forms with ethnicity check box, arrested/convicted of a crime, giving birth, dating, joining, organizations, or any social activities dealing with mainstream institutions, we\'ll state "We\'re not Black, we\'re biracial/multi-racial". <br><br>&lt;snark&gt;<br> I think that\'s a great way to f**k with folks heads.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084414">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084414" class="dsq-comment-message">Ijf:  Hey!   :&gt;) <br><br>Annnnnnd, IFF they happen to find something in my bag which they THINK that I shop-lifted, I\'m only going ta give back <b>HALF</b> of it!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4089359">bittersweet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4089359" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4089359" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG GreenLady!!!  Why did you make me choke on my lunch with this!!!  :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091414" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091414" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091414">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091414" class="dsq-comment-message">bittersweet:   HEY!  :&gt;)        Sorry.  :&gt;(<br><br>Enjoy the rest of it!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4110311" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4110311" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4110311">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4110311" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110311" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMAO!!!!  GHL, you know you gonna hav ta give up the Gucci.  they\'ll let you keep the payless shoes, though. LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4117217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4117217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4117217">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4117217" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  Then I\'ll protest on the basis of "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION!"   :&gt;)<br><br>They won\'t want that in the HEADLINES!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4120830" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4120830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120830">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4120830" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120830" class="dsq-comment-message">GLH, I can see the store clerks now, one of them following you around the jewelry counter and the another asking you if you want a makeover  LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084447" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084447">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084447" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh Noooooooooooooez.....when it comes to anything dealing with the judicial system wez is black as charcoal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084113" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084113">GDAWG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084113" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084113" class="dsq-comment-message">Typical Hispanic hogwash. Oh. We ain\'t Black! We be any thing but Black! Sickening.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084536" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084536">Miss_Me</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084536" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084536" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen to about 99% of what you said:<br><br>the only thing that struck me and leads me to my point was when you said that Barack doesn\'t even look Bi-racial.<br><br>That\'s what it boils down to: what we see.  As far as I\'m concerned, I am not mixed (i.e. I have two black parents from two black parents of their own.  Now where it goes from there, I don\'t know).  However, people have always insinuated that I was mixed or biracial, much to the chagrin of my mother, because I have hazel eyes and VERY curly hair.<br><br>Barack Obama could go the Tiger Woods route and say that he\'s not black, he is the culmination of the mixing of many races of his parents. BUT when the world looks at him, he has striking African features so they will associate him with that color - no matter how small the percentage of black he may be.<br><br>Instead, Obama has chosen to associate with the color that he is most readily identifiable as (and seems to have the least connection to insofar as his father is concerned).  If he had decided to say clearly that he was not black and that he was white because he is half white and raised by his white mother, I HIGHLY doubt that the white community would welcome him with open arms.<br><br>I mean, like you mentioned before, I cannot take comments on race and race mixing too serious from someone not inside the fence.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4087299" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087299" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4087299">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4087299" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087299" class="dsq-comment-message">Trust me, if Tiger ever finds himself on the wrong side of the law, he will find out just how black he really is.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4110238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4110238">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4110238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110238" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, Miranda, and it won\'t matter a lick how pretty and blond his wife is either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111408" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111408" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111408" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111408" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111408" class="dsq-comment-message">You think she\'s pretty? I don\'t equate hair color as an automatic validation of beauty.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111638" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111638">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111638" class="dsq-comment-message">pretty is just a figure of speech in this case.  You know white folks equate pretty with blond.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111764" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111764" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why I addressed the lie actual research shows white men prefer brunettes but the media indoctrination continues. Dark hair can connote racial ambiguity so blonde it is as the majority of them are white.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4114243" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4114243">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4114243" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4114243" class="dsq-comment-message">h&fs,being snarky here!  :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4116856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4116856">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4116856" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4116856" class="dsq-comment-message">h&f:   OUCH!!   LOL!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)   {I have my own band-Aid!}    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138437">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138437" class="dsq-comment-message">Sheeewd... He should have found that out when they told him to go eat that chicken and watermelon comment (collard greens or somethin)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084562">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084562" class="dsq-comment-message">Mexico\'s second President was a "black" man, whose forbears had been brought to Mexico as slaves. <br><br>Vicente Guerrero, a mulatto and Mexico’s 2nd president, was a hero in Mexico’s War of Independence from Spain. The state of Guerrero in Mexico was named in his honor. His grandson, Vicente Riva Palacio y Guerrero, was one of Mexico’s most influential politicians and novelists.<br><br>In addition, one of the most prestigious generals in Mexican’s War of Independence, José María Teclo Morelos y Pavón, was a mulatto as well.<br><br>Something between 200,000 and 500,000 African slaves were brought to Mexico...<br><br>You would have to look real hard to find any evidence of them today.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084570" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084570">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084570" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah: Soooo, I\'m re-thing those boxes that one must check on many forms that are completed.  :&gt;)<br><br>All my life [It\'s been long.   :&gt;)], I\'ve been checking AFRICAN-AMERICAN/BLACK/NEGRO/COLORED.  :&gt;)  [The boxes have undergone a metamorphosis.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)]<br><br>NOW that this issue has been raised, imma check a FEW boxes to indicate the I\'m "soma this and soma that!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>So what they gonna do with THAT information??  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084596" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084596" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084596">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084596" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084596" class="dsq-comment-message">There are few, if any pure African descenadants of slaves in America.  My maternal Grandmothers\' family was most likely Cherokee in Middle Tennesee that chose to live as Blacks rather than move to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma).  Her father took his family out there and came back to tennnesee because the people lived in tents.  Her maiden name, Crawford, is a recognized as anglicized Cherokee name.  Look at the Crawofrds you know.  None that I know are dark,<br><br>My Grandfather and his siblings are the likely offspring of a white man and their Black mother.  I write this to note that my personl infomration is aligned with Henry Louis Gates analysis of the semi-random famous sample in his public research.  Race in America is very much cultural and genetic.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4085027">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4085027" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085027" class="dsq-comment-message">black is what black is...it\'s more than a complexion, it\'s a cultural identity. i\'d much rather have a conversation about the talented tenth black folks going to the White House....since neither Barack and Michelle grew up in those kinds of upper class black families. I think that\'s pretty interesting and will be interesting as to how that will play out with Barack\'s black, non-biracial, base. LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091207">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091207" class="dsq-comment-message">didn\'t you bring this up before?<br><br>I asked you then, I think, to begin the conversation. Give us a starting point. I\'m game, but I need to get a feel of where you\'re coming from in this  conversation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091800">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091800" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091800" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know where NO ID is coming from, but I do find it interesting that what was probably considered the ideal mold of "the talented tenth" is not EVEN where Barack and Michelle came from. I\'ve read a lot about the "old guard" (so-to-speak) of black society from back in the day....the "paper bag" tests, the vacation spots on Martha\'s Vineyard for the uppercrust knee-grows, the Spelman/Morehouse paradox - I knew all of the characters from Dorothy West\'s book The Wedding - because I\'ve met them all in real life when I worked for Atlanta Life Ins Company. There was even this guy a few years ago - a real nut case - that was putting together a "black" Social Register. OK, I won\'t call him a nutcase, but the brutha was confused as hell...nevertheless, President-elect and First Lady Obama wouldn\'t make the cut for this "register". Its an interesting paradox.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4092077" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092077" class="dsq-comment-message">"...the ideal mold of "the talented tenth" is not EVEN where Barack and Michelle came from..."<br><br>Yes!  I have personally been relishing this fact for some time now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4092426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092426">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092426" class="dsq-comment-message">ME TOO.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111359" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111359" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111359" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111359" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t it great that the first Blacks to go to the White House came from a poor background and made it on their choices, drive and intellect? No "We Are Better Than Those Negros" in sight. Though they do have a few socialites in their circle. But all of the so-called elites couldn\'t get it together enough to put one of their own forth to run an effective campaign.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4085064" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085064" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4085064" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4085064" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085064" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><br><br><blockquote><br><b>We Hispanic Americans ...</a><br><br></blockquote><br><br>Hispanic = <b>His-pan-ic</b> |hiˈspanik|<br>adjective<br>of or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, esp. those of Latin America.<br>• of or relating to Spanish-speaking people or their culture, esp. in the U.S.<br><br>Where dark skinned people, and native-americans fit in that?<br></blockquote><br><br><br>I NEVER feel good being called black. I think people feels comfortable in being called that because they despise being called an african.<br><br>Damn i am an African, it is a race, NOT a political or social construction as black hispanic, white, yellow ARE.</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4085983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4085983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4085983">Fiona</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4085983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4085983" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. I would rather be called African than Black!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091377" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091377">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091377" class="dsq-comment-message">Fiona:  HEY!  :&gt;)     <b>AFRICAN.</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138014">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138014" class="dsq-comment-message">Call me what you want but don\'t call me broke!!!....lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086716">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086716" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is a quote  in the New York TImes from Obama  that I posted before....<br><br>When he was selected president of the Harvard Law Review, 1990:<br><br>\'\'The fact that I\'ve been elected shows a lot of progress,\'\' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. \'\'It\'s encouraging. <br><br>\'\'But it\'s important that stories like mine aren\'t used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don\'t get a chance,\'\' he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment. <br><br><br>Whether one agrees with it or not, Obama "includes" himself with Blacks as well as his mother\'s parentage.  "We", as in black people didn\'t box him in to anything....it seems he came to terms with what he related to a long time age.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091077">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091077" class="dsq-comment-message">"Black" people will understand exactly where Michelle was coming from:<br><br><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1307497%2CCST-NWS-mobama01.article" rel="nofollow">http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/130...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092539">Daughter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092539" class="dsq-comment-message">On the subject of non-black folks who don\'t want to claim black ancestry:<br><br>A few years ago, I visited the Pequot Museum at the Foxwoods Casino and Resort in Connecticut.  Throughout the museum, they have life-size replicas of the historical Pequot Indians living as they did three, four, five, even ten centuries ago.  They also have a film depicting how the Pequots were attacked and fought against white settlers.  Both the replicas and the actors in the movie look much like the sterotypical American Indian.<br><br>However, this is where it gets interesing:  the staff at the museum and the casino, almost all Pequots, and the large photos around the museum of the members of the Pequot tribe today, are very different.  Almost every one of them looks like an African-American - granted, a light-skinned or medium-brown skinned African-American, but black nonetheless, with hair and features much more typical of blacks than Indians. <br><br>During a tour of the museum, the tour guide asked if any of us had any questions.  I asked when and how did the Pequots intermarry with African-Americans?  I assumed it might be like other stories I had heart of escaped slaves who took refuge with Indian tribes, but I thought it would be interesting to hear the actual story.  The guy\'s response:  "We\'ve never intermarried with African-Americans."<br><br>Me:  Um... yes, you have.  You wouldn\'t look the way you do if you hadn\'t.  <br><br>Tour guide (now angry and defensive):  We\'re not mixed with black!  We\'re 100% Indian!<br><br>So I agree, many non-blacks in this country owe a lot to blacks, both as (many times) part of their heritage, and as those at the forefront of the struggle for equality for *all* people.  <br>\'<br>OTOH, I wouldn\'t say we\'re the only TRUE Americans.  Other groups have made significant contributions as well.  Recently, HuffPo had an article about how Native Americans serve in the armed forces at a greater rate per capita than any other racial group in this country.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111291" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111291" class="dsq-comment-message">Well their heritage is not the same. They may or may not have DNA indicative from African nations. I wouldn\'t necessarily decide someone\'s ethnicity based on phenotype. When I mentioned some Latinos not claiming Black heritage I was specifically referring to an acknowledgement of the gene pool. There are also many Black people who have a majority European ancestry who\'d prefer to ignore it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138314">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138314" class="dsq-comment-message">I know because I am one of those black  people...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4110166">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110166" class="dsq-comment-message">SAY IT LOUD, I\'M BLACK AND I\'M PROUD!!  <br><br>The Godfather of SOUL -Mr. James Brown<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI</a><br><br>You\'ll get a kick out of this one!!!  LOL!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCsUWx-QoA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCsUWx-QoA</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4110391" href="http://fosgood.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ra60785</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110391" class="dsq-comment-message">Clearly, PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA is Black.  If he were not Black, MSNBC\'s CHRIS MATTHEWS would not be so comfortable constantly refering to him as "BARACK" instead of  "PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA" or "MR. OBAMA,"  a courtesy, by the way,  afforded to every other president-elect before Mr. Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4110678">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110678" class="dsq-comment-message">ra60785,<br><br>Clearly! I thought that I was the only one that was bothered by everyone referring to the President Elect of the United States, by his first name. I cannot recall the first or the last time I heard the current POTUS referred to as GEORGE!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4110769">ra60785</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4110769" class="dsq-comment-message">kenyaw,<br><br>You are not alone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4116235" class="dsq-comment-message">kenyaw:  MAJOR CO-SIGN!!     ABSOLUTELY BOTHERED!!<br><br>They ALL betta git ta PRACTICIN\'  -    that would be - Mr. President;  YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS,  MR. POTENTATE;  YOUR GRACE; HIS IMMINENCE and "such as. . . "  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>As my mom would say when we called out to an ADULT  -  "You betta put a "HANDLE ON THAT NAME!"   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnnnnd, they betta STAND UP!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138257">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138257" class="dsq-comment-message">They did call him dubb-yah though....lol   "W"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112242">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112242" class="dsq-comment-message">The fact that there are 150+ posts on this story speaks to how powerful the issue of \'race\' still is in these "United" States of America.<br><br>For anyone to argue with how someone else identifies themselves is truly special.    On a purely practical level, in this country, it\'s not who you are, it\'s what you look like.   <br><br>The color of a person\'s skin has been an integral part of these "United" States.   That color played a part in whole economies; started wars; made laws that affected education, real estate purchases and business dealings.  <br><br>African, Colored, Negro, Nigger, Nigra, Negress, Boy,    <br><br>Why are people who don\'t identify as Black so quick to suggest that Black people forget our beautiful and tortuous history in this country?    I don\'t want to dwell on the pain that my mother felt when she couldn\'t find a job because her college degree said "Negro"  but neither do I want to forget it.<br><br>Ask a Jewish person to forget the holocaust.  Ask  a Japanese American to forget WWII internments?  Ask a Native American to ignore being herded onto planta.. oops,  reservations?       I DON\'T THINK SO.   <br><br>But let President Elect Obama identify himself  HIMSELF as  a black man, and now it\'s a problem.   Let him choose a black woman as his wife and the mother of his children, and people are flippin\' out.     <br><br>Whew   Far, far from \'post-racial\'  in my book.    In fact,  I\'m not even sure what that means.    Race and culture are forever intertwined.   Why would I want to \'get past\' all that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4134220">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4134220" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>On a purely practical level, in this country, it\'s not who you are, it\'s what you look like.</i><br><br>Which goes to the heart of what I have been saying for years.  I have traveled extensively abroad, and when I am in another country---without exception---I am seen as American first, black second.  However, in the land of my birth it is the opposite---has always been the case, and sadly may always be.<br><br>That is the reality in the USA plain and simple, and I\'m sick of people trying to make it out like if I somehow get over it that the circumstances will magically change.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4137950">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4137950" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks....very well said!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4118144" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118144" class="dsq-comment-message">I, for one, really don\'t care how one person defines another person\'s identity. It\'s totally irrelevant.<br><br>That writer wants attention. Looks like he\'s getting it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121590">La gringa </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121590" class="dsq-comment-message">About your comment:  "I SO am not gonna listen to a Latino tell me who IS and ISNT Black."<br><br>Poor latinos getting a bad reputation from the irresponsible statements this woman has made!!  Now we have as a racial "expert" this very privileged and powerful lady who --in the best American tradition of reinvention-- in middle age has conveniently embraced her father\'s Hispanic/Peruvian heritage now that being Latino had finally become chic and marketable.  I\'d take everything this self-styled arbiter and spokeswoman of all things Hispanic, multiethnic and now even multiracial!! says with a huge grain of salt.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4126722">Curtis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4126722" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with your assessment on the \'Michelle\' factor promoting (or demoting-depending on your viewpoint) Barack\'s blackness. I addressed it in late October on my blog. Check it out here:<br><br><a href="http://www.thejobagroup.org/?p=53" rel="nofollow">http://www.thejobagroup.org/?p=53</a><br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Curtis</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128427">Juana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128427" class="dsq-comment-message">Barak Obama has identified himself as black because society has forced him to.<br>As for his White European heritage (50%) - this is an established fact .  I am not black,<br>but I gather that this term is principally used by African Americans.   Black Africans <br>refer to themselves by their nationality.   Obama in fact said it best - "  a mutt , like me."<br>Exactly,,,,,,,     Nothing wrong with that - that in layman\'s terms is what he is.<br><br>You know,  "mutts" in general are healthier, smarter, live longer etc than pure breds.<br>From a genetic standpoint, Barak Obama is "better" than a someone who is mostly<br>one thing.       Remember his mother ?   It was she and her parents who nurtured the<br>President elect.      Barak Obama is the son of a white woman  and a native Kenyan<br>(black, if you will).   That Kenyan wasnt around - he dumped his wife and son.<br>Running around Chicago doesnt make Obama black, neither do other people\'s<br>perceptions of him.   I certainly hope that when  Michelle looks at her husband she doesnt see a black man.    I hope she sees  HER HUSBAND.    When I look at<br>Barak Obama, I see the next President of the United States.   I absolutely believe<br>that he does not have the prejudices rampant in this forum .   Yes, mixed heritage<br>seems make a better product.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4128905" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128905" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you not see the irony in following your penultimate sentence with your last one?  Really.  Can you not see it?  *Shrug* Maybe you can\'t.  Okay here goes.  You say that prejudices are rampant in this forum.  Then you say that mixed heritage seems to make a better product.  If that ain\'t a prejudiced statement and-a-half!  You just got finished maligning people with more homogeneous racial heritage as less healthy, less smart, and genetically inferior.  Ever heard of eugenics?  Yes, you\'re attempting to turn it on its head, but the logic is as specious, offensive, and prejudicial as eugenics ever was.  A broad gene pool is a good thing, yes, but that isn\'t indicative that, in particular, a multi-racial gene pool is the pinnacle of genetic success.  It\'s just one possibility of a broad gene pool.<br><br>And by the way, people who refer themselves by nationality tend to do so because they are outside of their home nation.  No wonder a South African might call themselves South African upon coming to America.  But at home, they might go by Afrikan, or black, or colored, or Afrikaaner, or Zulu.  It\'s all in the context.  <br><br>No one here is attempting to say that Barack Obama has no European ancestry.  Neither is Obama himself.  When he calls himself black, he\'s just getting in where he feels he fits in.  If he likes it, I love it.  You have an intolerance problem because you are unable to allow him to self-identify.  He and we are not the ones with the problem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130201">Juana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130201" class="dsq-comment-message">Sigh........Prejudice has nothing to do with it.   Do you know anything about pure bred animals?  The more inbred they are - the more burdened they are with physical problems.    Take bulldogs for example - cute ,but incredibly unhealthy.<br>The same goes for people.    Jews for example, particularly the Ashkenazi subgroup have a very high incidence of genetic diseases BECAUSE historically this group did not marry out of the group.    Mutts  ARE a better product,  in part because they dilute the incidence of mutations.      Better product - for me, that means fewer genetic mutations that decrease the quality of  life.      Maligning ?   This is not maligning- it is simply a fact.   <br>Morale of the story ?  Unions that produce produce people like Barak Obama<br>are good in the genetic sense and even in the social sense.     <br>I am not intolerant of Barak Obama, I celebrate his mixed heritage.<br>This forum ignores half of what he is .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130490">Fiona</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130490" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent point. I agree that some posters in this blog are very nasty. If you do not share their identity politics, you are damned or self-hating.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4130970" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130970" class="dsq-comment-message">This is exactly why I shook my head when Barack Obama referred to himself jokingly as a "mutt."  Because people would take their junior-high school level understanding of genetics as applied to dogs and start getting into race/biology arguments like this one.  You\'re saying that people of mixed race are genetically better.   You couldn\'t have even stopped there, because you went on to intelligence.  Bell Curve ring a bell? What you said was racially charged.  Mixed race = better.<br><br>That is not the same thing as simply saying that genetic variation is good.  We talked about genetic issues like Tay-Sachs and sickle cell down the thread - it\'s already been acknowledged that sometimes doctors can use someone\'s racial background to infer a disorder associated with a lack of genetic diversity.  But the problem isn\'t that more people aren\'t RACIALLY mixed, it\'s that they aren\'t genetically mixed - these aren\'t one and the same thing.  You\'re drawing a quick and dirty shortcut to get there.  And it\'s more like prejudicial, inside-out eugenics than anything else to me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130808">GDAWG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130808" class="dsq-comment-message">INSANITY, AS NOTED ABOVE, IS EPIDEMIC. GEEZ!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4150309">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4150309" class="dsq-comment-message">Will you give it up already! Geez!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133598" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Obama, is an African American.  He is more African American than any of us Black People in America today.  His father is African and his mother is American (her ethnic make up is unimportant).  Listen Ana, we didn\'t participate in the rulings that stated if a person had 1/3 African blood, he/she was Black.  To the people who matter is this country (not you hispanics) he is a Black Man, that\'s why every redneck racist in the backwoods is gunning for the brotha.  Get it right!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4148566" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4148566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4148566">Juana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4148566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4148566" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope the members of this forum are not supporting Obama BECAUSE he is half<br>African and  supposedly is "black."  If so, then you have nothing in common with him.<br>I presume our President Elect loved his mother and grandparents because of who they were not what their race was. \'\'<br><br>And why let US laws define you?   Hispanics dont and will not ever.   <br>We define ourselves, thats why Mariano Rivera is Hispanic,<br>So, the redneck racist matter?   Sad, sad- that you allow that<br>segment of our society (gulp) even ruffle a hair on your head.  <br><br>Barak Obama  has no brothers, only a sister.    <br><br>Luckily for him, it doesnt matter to her what he looks like.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4148879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4148879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4148879">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4148879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4148879" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, because the people who frequent this board are so shallow, shortsided and completely lacking intelligence that there is absolutely no way that they could have supported Obama because of his stands on the issues, and because he was truly the best candidate to get this country out of the toilet.<br><br>Whatever.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4149946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4149946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4149946">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4149946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4149946" class="dsq-comment-message">You still here trying to convince YOURSELF that President -elect Obama is not a black man?? mmmkay<br><br>Ramble on.....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4440186" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4440186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4440186">lyric</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4440186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4440186" class="dsq-comment-message">Wrong, Juana. Barack has brothers and another sister.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138980" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138980">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138980" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138980" class="dsq-comment-message">he\'s BLACK, he\'s BEAUTIFUL, and he\'s about to be our PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4440041" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4440041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4440041" href="http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alicia</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4440041" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4440041" class="dsq-comment-message">ditto!<br>obama is bi-racial<br><br>how dare black racists erase his white kin who reared him solo!<br><br>see more on obama\'s race at:<br>OUTLOOK<br><a href="http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083025" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083025" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083025">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083025" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083025" class="dsq-comment-message">I completely agree with the article that the female wrote. Barack Obama is not "Black". He is bi-ethnic and Bi-cultural. Why do African American hold onto a term (Black) which mean nothing and is rooted in racism. Would you claim a dark skinned Vietnamese as Black what about a every light jewish female with nappy hair. No you would not!! All of the above posters are trapped in the idea that one drop of "Black" blood means that you are Black. A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are. This need to claim Obama as "Black" when his family and history in no real way is similar to any other "Black" person is America is beyond me.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112677">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112677" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112677">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112677" class="dsq-comment-message">"A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are."<br><br>And so you should take your own advice and let Barack Obama be black, since that\'s how he wants to refer to himself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083204">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083204" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you are contradicting yourself ,in that Obama  does see himself as black so there should be no objections to calling him black.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083337" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083337" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083337">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083337" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083337" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that there is something wrong with calling himself "Black" in the first place. He is directly linked to two different ethnic groups. I would be offended if I was his mother or father and chose to claim one. Also, I doubt that "White" people are trying to claim Obama. They have no reason to. They are also wedded to this notion that he is the first "Black" president. The only people I think that are trying to claim Obama are some "Black" people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083710">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083710" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh.....so now something is wrong with Obama......first it was "a person should be whatever they want to be"...but then when the choice is "black"...oh, now its the wrong choice. There\'s something "wrong" with that. <br><br>wow.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084208" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084208" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4084208" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084208" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084208" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.  Why all the qualifiers?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084229" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084229" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084229">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084229" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084229" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084416" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084416">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084416" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t forget "Is Obama Black enough?", the meme the MSM was pushing early in the primaries.<br>Yes he is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083767">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083767" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that there is something wrong with him choosing one over the other if he is only doing so because society dictates that he identify with one. All I am sating is if I have a child with someone outside my race, I would hope that they identify as both not just one.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4084055">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084055" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084055">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084055" class="dsq-comment-message">So you want doctors to stop identifying us by race also? That might be problematic for a number of reasons.<br><br>The problem though, doesn\'t seem to be Barack\'s or anyone else\'s...it seems to be yours. Why does it concern you if Barack Obama identifies himself as "black"? How does it harm you?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4086144" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4086144" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086144">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4086144" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086144" class="dsq-comment-message">The fact that doctors identify use by race is ridiculous. My genes have nothing to do with my race. Just because I am dark chocolate does not mean that everyone who is dark chocolate will have the same genes, diseases etc as me. Your genes are comprised of not only your parents, grandparent etc, but even many generations before your great, great grandparents. So, if I have "Black", "white", Indian, and Asian in my family, but my complexion is brown and I have negroid features how would it help doctors to group me in with the "Black" race? I probably more than most people am disturbed by the notion of race and skin color difference, because it means nothing. People make it stand for more than it should. Yes America has a history of racial division etc, but this history will not change unless people themselves change their belief systems about race and color.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4087378" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4087378">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4087378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087378" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you know what Sickle Cell Anemia is?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4086827">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4086827" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4086827" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086827">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4086827" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086827" class="dsq-comment-message">Fiona:  HEY!  :&gt;)  <i>but this history will not change unless people themselves change their belief systems about race and color.</i><br><br>O.K. two things:<br><br>1. You stated that you check the box:  BLACK.  Is that for the purpose of IDENTIFYING YOUR ETHNICITY? "<i>I check the "black" box <u>unless</u> they ask for ethnicity.</i>  I\'m confused!  Did you think that you were being asked for the AMOUNT OF MELANIN that you possess??<br><br>2.  You have a CHOICE:  DON\'T check any of the boxes.   Just DECLINE TO STATE.    <br>**shakin\' my head**  Whew!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091651" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091651" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091651">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091651" class="dsq-comment-message">I check Black if they do not ask for ethnicity.<br><br>Sicle Cell Anemia is prevalent in Africa, the Mediterranean, India and the Middle East not just "Black" People.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4092019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4092019" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092019" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092019" class="dsq-comment-message">And that knowledge is exactly why doctors want to know your background, because it could help with a diagnosis.  A Nordic patient is less likely to have sickle-cell.  An Ashkenazi Jew or a Cajun is more likely to get Tay-Sachs.  It\'s worth the doctor\'s time of day to ask their patients their race depending on symptoms because race and ethnicity are risk factors that describe the likelihood of certain issues possibly lurking in your gene pool that could be there because of the self-identification and same-race coupling in one\'s family tree.  Racial classifiers are about more than just phenotype and racism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4092357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092357">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092357" class="dsq-comment-message">glory: <br><br><br> HEY!  :&gt;)   TEACH!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4092600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092600">NinaG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092600" class="dsq-comment-message">race is problematic even in health settings.  There have been cases of patients perceived (by themselves and others) as white who have been diagnosed with sickle cell.  The problem with race in health is becoming an increasing problem, there are some drugs that were tested and found effective for black american populations BUT does that mean it will be effective in black people who aren\'t american?  And going back to sickle cell, its not a homogenous disease there are various abnormal traits that are classified as sickle cell; these same traits produce differences as far as disease severity but occur within racial categories (e.g. black)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4129341" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4129341" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4129341">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4129341" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4129341" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank You. My point exactly.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5540471" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5540471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5540471">SherriS</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5540471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5540471" class="dsq-comment-message">Since we all know where Guyana is located on the map, do you really not get that you are brown because your ancestors came from Africa??  More Africans landed in South America than North America.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4092331" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4092331" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4092331">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4092331" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4092331" class="dsq-comment-message">Fiona:   <i>I check Black if they do not ask for ethnicity.</i><br><br>  I\'m gonna try this ONE MO\' \'GIN:<br><br>Document X:<br><br>Ethnic Code/Ethnicity:<br>   __Black<br> ___White<br>___Hispanic<br>___Asian<br>___Other<br><br><br>What would/do YOU check?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111796" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111796" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111796">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111796" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111796" class="dsq-comment-message">GHL,<br><br>Have I told you lately that I love you???<br><br>WHEEEWWW   Oxygen mask....:LOLOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4118613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4118613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4118613">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4118613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118613" class="dsq-comment-message">isonprize:<br><br>CLARITY/LOGIC -  I\'m a simple person.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Back- at-choo!!   :&gt;)<br><br>S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G the "Oxygen Mask" to you!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112793">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112793">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112793" class="dsq-comment-message">You get to choose "black," but don\'t want Obama to choose "black."  Ok.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084450" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084450">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084450" class="dsq-comment-message">Out of curiousity....how do you describe yourself?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4086036" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4086036" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086036">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4086036" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086036" class="dsq-comment-message">I am Guyanese. I hate using Black because it is a racist society construct that says nothing about who I am and so is labeling myself Guyanese to some extent. Black is not in my genes. My color is dark chocolate brought about by melanin. I check the "black" box unless they ask for ethnicity. I just don\'t think one should choose to identify with "Black" or label themselves "Black" simply because "White" people do and view you as such. I hope for the day when racial categories will be a thing of the past.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111792">SherriS</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111792" class="dsq-comment-message">Prehaps you do not understand this construct since you are not American born. <br><br>Also, sorry you get grouped with Black folks just because of your complexion. That must suck for you.  Try checking the Hispanic box next time.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091902" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091902" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4091902" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091902" class="dsq-comment-message">I identify with "Black", but it\'s not because "white" people see me as "black,"  I see it as a practical term that\'s a good shorthand for how I culturally identify in solidarity with other African descendants in this country.  There is nothing wrong with that.  I suspect that may be the same reason Obama uses it.  It does say something about who I am - a descendant of Africans, just like Obama, Tiger Woods, and my parents.  I hope racial categories never become such a thing of the past that people are actually offended that I want to proudly say that I and my future children are black.  Fiona, the barriers to human respect aren\'t the labels we brandish, it\'s the belief of some that they have the right to disrespect others based on their labels.<br><br>It\'s been my experience that some West Indians don\'t like to check "black" because in this country, it\'s shorthand for "Black American," and that\'s not who they are - they have a different culture altogether.  I\'m not saying that this is your issue, but I will say that even countries in S.A. and the West Indies have their own local racial classifications.  This is just how ours works here.  The classifications are not going anywhere, though they may morph over time, like the names of neighborhoods, based on changing perspectives.  But humans have been classifying since Adam named the animals.  It\'s just names.   Like you said, a societal construct.  How is it any worse for people to identify with them than it is for you to reject them altogether?  Ultimately, the labels only matter so much.<br><br>When Obama says he\'s Black, he is not rejecting his mother and grandparents, he is telling people how he culturally identifies.<br><br>When Black people claim other people of African descent, it is akin to welcoming or embracing kindred, and I don\'t understand where your puzzlement over that comes from, as we\'ve been doing it since crossing the Atlantic.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138859">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138859" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138859" class="dsq-comment-message">Best post on this blog!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138800" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138800">meka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138800" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah that time is coming...then they are gonna still judge you by how brown you are and how kinky yo hair is...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083497">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083497" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>A person should be whatever they want to be and not allow society to dictate who they are.</i><br><br>Obama has made it clear on numerous occasions that he chooses to self-identify as black, so it seems to me that he is proving your point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083569" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083569">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083569" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083569" class="dsq-comment-message">Uhhhh... Fiona - you missed part of that history.<br><br>Those laws were enforced until the mid-late 60\'s - well within the lifespan of a large segment of the black population in this country.<br><br>In Virginia, the State Congress passed "The Racial Purity Act" seeking to identify and classify every individual in the state as to their racial background in the 1930\'s and 40\'s.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4083735" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4083735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4083735">Fiona</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4083735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4083735" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. That is history. Today, I think that people should not maintain these racial notions and categories because they are rooted in racism and serve no scientific purpose. There is no scientific basis for race. The only thing that separates us is the melanin in our skin. Again if melanin is the only thing that separates us. Therefore, should we not accept the jewish woman with nappy hair or the Asian man with the wide nose? Obviously not all "Black" people have nappy hair or broad noses, I am just trying to get my point across that race and color do not matter.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084219">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084219" class="dsq-comment-message">Not in the context of life in America, Fiona.<br><br>Race very much matters.<br><br>Look at the voting statistics for Obama in different locations across the US. Obama pulled 95% of the black vote -  5-7% above the "norm" - so race did matter to some percentage of black voters.<br><br>Obama pulled 45% of the white vote in industrialized "liberal"states, but only 15% in the states won by McTush - 20% BELOW the "norm. So race damn sure mattered to some white voters.<br><br>While I\'m with you in the spirit that it shouldn\'t matter...<br><br>The painful reality in a country with the long bitter history of ours is...<br><br>It does.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4084558" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4084558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4084558">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4084558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4084558" class="dsq-comment-message">Black people tend to claim everyone, so I think your argument is flawed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138174">meka</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138174" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes...(I claim black ) my 9 year old daughter told me that "black" is everything mixed together...out of the mouth of babes...lol</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4086193">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4086193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4086193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086193">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4086193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086193" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes they do and I ask why. Why do "Black" people always claim individuals. No other group to my knowledge seem to care. I don\'t remember asian running up and trying to claim Tiger Woods etc.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112734">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112734" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112734" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112734">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112734" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112734" class="dsq-comment-message">"Black" people didn\'t claim Barack Obama, Barack Obama claimed "us."<br><br>Again, you claim that people should be called whatever they want to be called instead of accepting the labels society throws on them. <br><br>Barack Obama WANTS to be called "black."  YOU and others like you want to FORCE the man to call himself "biracial."<br><br>So am I to understand that people can call themselves whatever they want to call themselves, as long as it\'s not black?  For you to have this mindset you are<br><br>a) a self hating black person who wishes they were anything but black;<br><br>b) a biracial person who needs Obama to claim "biracial" to validate your own shoddy sense of self worth.<br><br>c) a non-black person who does not like black people and can only justify liking Barack Obama if he can be something other than black i.e. "just a man" or "biracial."<br><br>Yet if a video came out on Fox News today showing Barack Obama taking off his belt and whipping Sasha and Malia for running around the White House and then later throwing his feet up on the Oval Office desk and knocking back a 40, you\'d be the first one decrying how "black" he is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4115082" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4115082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4115082">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4115082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4115082" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,do you think Fiona gets it now that she\'s been given multiple choice?  <br><br>Fiona,check -a-c and call it a day, honey.<br><br>LOL @ feet up on the Oval Office desk knocking back a 40...</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4087348">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4087348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4087348">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4087348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087348" class="dsq-comment-message">We claim people because we understand being men without countries.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4091029">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091029" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091029" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091029">Fiona</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091029" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091029" class="dsq-comment-message">Everyone who fits into the ideal of what is considered "Black" is claimed not everyone that looks "Black" I think that if Obama was very light with blue eyes and blondish colored hair people would not be so quick to claim him.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112761">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112761">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112761" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that if Obama was very light with blue eyes and blondish colored hair his name would be Harold Ford, Jr.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4120948" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4120948" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120948">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4120948" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120948" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh shit! Dark Sith!  Hee,hee!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4121634" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4121634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121634">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4121634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121634" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>ouch!<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4111655">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111655" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111655" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111655">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111655" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111655" class="dsq-comment-message">"claim him"?? LOL.........look, we didn\'t draft President-elect Obama - we didn\'t cash in a ticket for him. Contrary to popular belief, "we" don\'t get to make the choice on who is or isn\'t a black person, and neither do you. Barack Obama is a proud black man. HE states unequivocally that he is a proud BLACK MAN. Get over your own anxieties about it - don\'t project that complex on the rest of us.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4111672">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111672">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111672" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen Miranda.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4111667">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111667" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111667">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111667" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111667" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree to disagree Fiona.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138637" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138637">meka</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138637" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138637" class="dsq-comment-message">I dunno we claim Solanges child and Vanessa Williams.....oh yeah "they black too\'</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4111507">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111507" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111507" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111507" class="dsq-comment-message">Umm Fiona, you need to do a LOT of research and come back when you\'re on the same page. We\'re working at the college level and you\'re still in grammar school. YOU have a problem with Obama choosing Black because it is undesirable to you. That\'s your ignorance - don\'t push it on someone else. He knows who he is and doesn\'t need to claim a false totem of whiteness/otherness to satisfy you and other people\'s apathy.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4138115">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4138115" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4138115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4138115">meka</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4138115" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4138115" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you not see that afro that he used to rock....lol that\'s when I knew he was a brother. And check out that dap whenever he exits his car...He got that swagg. " He Black"</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4086320">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4086320" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4086320" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4086320">Juana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4086320" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4086320" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I agree - Barak Obama is not black.   On the DNA level, he is half  black African and<br>half American ( white European ancestry).   Culturally, he was raised in a white family -<br>so he  was not brought up with Kenyan culture or language.   In Hawaii, he was surrounded by the mutltiethnic culture that is Hawaii.    He also spent some time as a child in  Indonesia.     No, Barak Obama is definitely not black.   Robert De Niro isnt black just because he has a black wife and children who have skin like their mother.   Ditto, Barak<br>Obama - MIchelle Obama and their children , dont make Barak Obama black.<br><br>He is the product of his upbringing  - almost none of which is African American.<br><br>He is a MAN, lets leave it at that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4087011" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4087011" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4087011">ljf</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4087011" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4087011" class="dsq-comment-message">On a DNA level what Black American/African-American is Black?  I sure as hell ain\'t.  I don\'t have any relatives who are. When my grandparents were born, Negro was on stamped their birth certificate.   I grew up in a neighborhood that is considered multi-ethnic Negro ( Caribean, Canadians, Central and South American. ) Definitely none of my neighbors are Black on a DNA level.  If fact I knew some Senegalese and Nigerian nationals who are not Black on a DNA level.  <br><br>So Professor Juana.  (I figured you as a geneticist.) What constitutes being Black since Barack is too God awful retarded not know that he is not Black.  <br><br>BTW, Am I West Indian because I grew up in a Caribbean neighborhood?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091402" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091402" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091402">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091402" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091402" class="dsq-comment-message">If I am not mistaken, Juana is the same person who  says she "half heartedly" voted for Obama and claimed many Latinos, like her, felt the same way about Obama.<br><br>Go figure.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4091267">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091267" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4091267" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091267" class="dsq-comment-message">"...[H]alf black African and half American ( white European ancestry)" <br>Soooo... American means white European ancestry?  No.  That\'s where you lost me,  Barack Obama what he identifies himself to be.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4091342" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4091342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4091342">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4091342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4091342" class="dsq-comment-message">glory:   HEY!  :&gt;)<br><br>Co-sign!  <b>He can BE whateva he wants!</b>  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112577">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112577">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112577" class="dsq-comment-message">No, because you can\'t be raised in a multicultural society and be "black."  You have to be raised in a ghetto holding your nuts, break dancing and rapping and rolling your neck to be black.[/eyeroll]</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4116460" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4116460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4116460">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4116460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4116460" class="dsq-comment-message">Town!   Town!    Town!!  :&gt;)  "WHYCOME" you speak the TRUTH!?   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4119198" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4119198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4119198">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4119198" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4119198" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh Town...<br><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>why do you come and drop the truth like that?</div>\
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	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=barack_obama_not_black&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




