We all know that. By checking African American he continues to send a message to the America that he feels slighted him as a youth.

Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

as for "the America that slighted him in his youth" let's discuss.

Barack Obama:  born August 4, 1961

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Glenn Beck excels at expressing adventurous thoughts in memorable language, but he outdid himself when, one morning last summer, he offered a diagnosis of President Obama. He said, "This President, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture. I don't know what it is.

Just happened on an excellent book review on the subject of race:

But what of it? Why is it that, from Christian Lander to Jon Stewart, a diagnosis of whiteness is often delivered, and received, as a kind of accusation? The answer is that the diagnosis is often accompanied by an implicit or explicit charge of racism. It's become customary to suppose that a measure of discrimination is built into whiteness itself, a racial category that has often functioned as a purely negative designation: to be white in America is to be not nonwhite, which is why it was possible, in 1961, for a white woman from Kansas living in Hawaii to give birth to a black baby. In a marvellously splenetic essay, "On Being White . . . And Other Lies," James Baldwin argued that America had, really, "no white community"--only a motley alliance of European immigrants and their descendants, who made a "moral choice" (even if they didn't realize it) to join a synthetic racial élite.

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Long before it had any sort of coherent cultural or historical identity, whiteness in America was a broad, loosely defined political category, which is precisely why so many scholars knocked themselves out trying to fill in the details.

Myself, I prefer the term heritage.  The form uses origin, which is good, too.

But then the results often are extrapolated with use of the term race.  Of course, it is only a social construct.  

I liked the ruins at Coba better...more jungle & quiet, less crowded...and you can still climb the pyramid.  Crazy.

Thank you so much for the Isla reco...you know me too well, just my speed.  More Mexican tourists than American in Isla.  Playa Norte... hoppin' from cantina to cantina...and the food in the plaza there was outstanding...dos mas carne asada por favor, do mas pescado!  And the sunset...romantic as all hell.  

I happened to be listening to sports radio this morning - I'm in Baltimore, so the Nationals are discussed maybe not as much as the Orioles, but this was Topic A: Obama and the White Sox cap.  There was no consensus on whether it was a slap in the face to the Nationals, or whether it was of no consequence, but the one thing that seemed to bother both the radio hosts and the callers was that when asked, Obama just stuttered out some incomprehensible answer to the question of which White Sox players he admired growing up - a reasonable question, given the hat.

One of the hosts said that Obama should have answered that he didn't live in Chicago as a kid, but having lived there for so many years later, he felt he owed it to his adopted hometown to represent the team.  They all seemed puzzled by his inability to answer the question, which them made some of them question his sincerity; I could see how people could react that way.

Just as I can see how his answering the "which race are you?" question with only one race could bother some people.

I, personally, don't care if he trotted out onto the field wearing an Easter Bunny outfit - I just drew the comparison between these two recent events to show how some people react more to things than others.

And, I'm not the one who has to make sense of the census, or figure out who's even reading the instructions before answering the questions, so what do I care why Obama - or anyone else - checked - or didn't - the right number of boxes on the form?

But, I know it is much more fun to make it "all about the primaries."

Btw, it was a New Yorker piece on online Scrabble that sent me to several sites to try it . . . and it hooked me, now that most of my game-playing fanatics, my kids, are off to the game of life, small l.:-)