Hawaii is a great illustration of how your "coalition of the fringes" won't explode, just dissipate
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When I was a kid in 1960s-70s, it was assumed that the economic future of Hawaii was stratospheric. Hawaii's demography is roughly similar to Silicon Valley's. That didn't happen. I've never seen much exploration of why. (One reason: time zones are bigger problem than thought.)
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There wasn't the same kind of military-industrial complex investment into Hawaii for one
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Obama's mother spent much of her life in association with U. of Hawaii's East-West Center, which LBJ had planned as the USA's counterpart to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba U. for Third World students.
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I respect Obama a lot for this. He was nearly engaged to a White woman when he realized he'd never be great without investing in a Black image. So he dropped her and all the other White parts of his life and staked everything on his new identity, and won the presidency twice.
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Right. Obama dropped his pretty, very high IQ white/Asian girlfriend to get ahead in politics as a black man. So she married a Korean-American US army officer, then became an expert on Korea while family stationed in Korea, and is now a professor of Korean studies at Oberlin.
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He was basically a deracinated SWPL like his mother, but with a politically expedient level of melanin.
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Yglesias's great-grandfather was from Galicia in Spain:
#ConquistadorAmerican#FlightFromWhite He's about as nonwhite as Ezra Klein, whose father was born in Brazil. Amusingly, Yglesias and Klein both claim to be part Latino. Yglesias wrote in 2015: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2011/1/18/121735/565/otherpolitics/What-Is-A-Latino- …pic.twitter.com/9iEwkDtBPx
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"Everybody knows the prospects of some mixed-race kid from Palookaville, HI aren't worth a pile of cucumbers. So I reinvented myself! Yeah I did, and what of it! Just like you did; and you, too! But I've made myself what I am, and nobody can say different!" ... and ... scene
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Does this prove that there is no such thing as "black"?
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Sounds like he went "non-binary" on his self identification to gain attention & get ahead which might provide clue as motivation asto sudden current proliferation of supposed gender ID's.He went Trans self identity a generation before it went viral tho on gender variant
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Watch how people vote with their feet and you know where it's best to be.
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Of course, Pan-Africanism is the solution to inter-African divisions. After all, they're all Black, so why differentiate between them? It's like differentiating between Whites inside of the Hajnal Line. It's too much effort for nothing.
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With him having lived in Indonesia, one doesn’t exclude the other. He may well have found it easier to find friends in the black community. Black international community is tiny.
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He should have specifically labelled himself East African-American to differentiate himself from West African-Americans. Had this difference not been completely ignored, it is possible that West African-Americans would not have accepted Obama as one of their own.
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