Husky, I've taken the liberty to edit your first three paragraphs. Please feel free to use anything of value. I would add some line about liberal's donning the clothes of their civilizational victims, eg the native american headdress, and other such appropriation phenomenon.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Americans are referring to a "new beginning" with Barack Obama's election as the first 'black' President. As I will show, this is a problematic appraisal from the standpoint of the American worldview. America is essentially continuing along its old path, with no new changes.
Obama is bi-ethnic (or to use a deprecated term, bi-racial). But America's colour parlance is about strictly black and white categories (and, when they remember the native Americans, the 'coloured'). The definition of 'black' in AmeriKKKa has its closest correspondence in what the Nazis of Germany later created with their 'Aryan Paragraph'. The Aryan Paragraph proclaimed that any German (ie Christian) who had any Jewish grandparent or great grandparent was to be considered Jewish, non-Aryan, and ultimately untermensch/subhuman. The Amerikkkan 'One Drop Rule' holds that if a person had a drop of African ancestry (usually considered as 1/8th African), they were 'black'. These arbitrary yet theologically necessary definitions barred Africans from a lot of rights in the past, and of course subjected Africans to the social stigma associated with being 'black' in a slavers' world. [[[[ Footnote: There are complicated reasons why Americans necessarily ended up equating African ethnicity with being 'Black'; however, S. N. Balagangadhara came closest when he pointed out that Western or Christian ethnies necessarily need to be (ordinally) ordered from higher to lower, from superior to inferior; that is, these designations do not signify reciprocal relationships like Brahmin or Sudra that develop during the interactions of different persons or communities (eg teacher or worker);. Neither are they ethnic designations such as Jatt or Kumhar. "Black" and "White"- type of designations are ordained from a specific need to define or 'essentialize'; indeed, to conform to the 'Good Book' itself. Very pertient is the fact that one can actually lose one's designation as a Brahmin or a Vaishya or be derecognized as such. An analogous situation with Blackness or Whiteness would be unthinkable; after all, the 'Good Book' (or the secular Constitution) is perfected in itself -- and the reality that it dictates must then be formulaically applied to all human situations.]]]]
While no one is literally black or literally white, in America's terms, these do not translate into African or European either, since Obama's ancestry would then be African-European. So when they say that the bi-ethnic Obama is 'black', Americans are actually conforming to the dynamic of the Nazi 'Aryan Paragraph'. That is, the racist 'One Drop rule' is an exact parallel of the Nazi 'Aryan Paragraph'. As a Hindu (or any non-American) looking in, I find the American mindset vastly intriguing. So much loaded terminology, so many alien and unnatural concepts, so many layers upon layers of christian conditioning, that even when they think they are now much more open-minded, they aren't really.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Americans are referring to a "new beginning" with Barack Obama's election as the first 'black' President. As I will show, this is a problematic appraisal from the standpoint of the American worldview. America is essentially continuing along its old path, with no new changes.
Obama is bi-ethnic (or to use a deprecated term, bi-racial). But America's colour parlance is about strictly black and white categories (and, when they remember the native Americans, the 'coloured'). The definition of 'black' in AmeriKKKa has its closest correspondence in what the Nazis of Germany later created with their 'Aryan Paragraph'. The Aryan Paragraph proclaimed that any German (ie Christian) who had any Jewish grandparent or great grandparent was to be considered Jewish, non-Aryan, and ultimately untermensch/subhuman. The Amerikkkan 'One Drop Rule' holds that if a person had a drop of African ancestry (usually considered as 1/8th African), they were 'black'. These arbitrary yet theologically necessary definitions barred Africans from a lot of rights in the past, and of course subjected Africans to the social stigma associated with being 'black' in a slavers' world. [[[[ Footnote: There are complicated reasons why Americans necessarily ended up equating African ethnicity with being 'Black'; however, S. N. Balagangadhara came closest when he pointed out that Western or Christian ethnies necessarily need to be (ordinally) ordered from higher to lower, from superior to inferior; that is, these designations do not signify reciprocal relationships like Brahmin or Sudra that develop during the interactions of different persons or communities (eg teacher or worker);. Neither are they ethnic designations such as Jatt or Kumhar. "Black" and "White"- type of designations are ordained from a specific need to define or 'essentialize'; indeed, to conform to the 'Good Book' itself. Very pertient is the fact that one can actually lose one's designation as a Brahmin or a Vaishya or be derecognized as such. An analogous situation with Blackness or Whiteness would be unthinkable; after all, the 'Good Book' (or the secular Constitution) is perfected in itself -- and the reality that it dictates must then be formulaically applied to all human situations.]]]]
While no one is literally black or literally white, in America's terms, these do not translate into African or European either, since Obama's ancestry would then be African-European. So when they say that the bi-ethnic Obama is 'black', Americans are actually conforming to the dynamic of the Nazi 'Aryan Paragraph'. That is, the racist 'One Drop rule' is an exact parallel of the Nazi 'Aryan Paragraph'. As a Hindu (or any non-American) looking in, I find the American mindset vastly intriguing. So much loaded terminology, so many alien and unnatural concepts, so many layers upon layers of christian conditioning, that even when they think they are now much more open-minded, they aren't really.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->