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Old 01-11-2010, 03:06 PM
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Blago: 'I'm blacker than Barack Obama'

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The former Illinois governor outdoes himself in an interview with Esquire during the taping of "Celebrity Apprentice":

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It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of sh** and phonies, but I was real, man — and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we *hope* the guy is. What the f***? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.
Wow...Everything but a fried chicken comment and a James Brown refrence...

I'm surprised he didn't finish by snapping his fingers and saying "Sho 'nuff"...
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Which is the more authentic Black experience? The one Blago describes or Obama's?
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Which is the more authentic Black experience? The one Blago describes or Obama's?
Read "Dreams of my Father" and you'll see that Barry Obama's only exposure tot eh black experience is what he chose to experience. He was raised in an upper middle-class family, attended private schools and only experienced the real "black experience" second-hand during his years as a community organizer.
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Stereotypes Blago believes he is more familier with the inner city black experience. He may. But not all blacks live that experience. And as far as I know its not required.


And one more time......He is half black
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Read "Dreams of my Father" and you'll see that Barry Obama's only exposure tot eh black experience is what he chose to experience. He was raised in an upper middle-class family, attended private schools and only experienced the real "black experience" second-hand during his years as a community organizer.
Does that mean it's OK for Blago to speak "Negro"...............when he wants too?
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Does that mean it's OK for Blago to speak "Negro"...............when he wants too?
Sho' nuff, know what I'm saying?
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Stereotypes Blago believes he is more familier with the inner city black experience. He may. But not all blacks live that experience. And as far as I know its not required.


And one more time......He is half black
Not according to his own words. In Dreams of My Father, he says that he intentionally stopped identifying himself as half-black (or half-white) and stuck with "black".
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Oh, Hell... I'm blacker that Barack Obama.
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Not according to his own words. In Dreams of My Father, he says that he intentionally stopped identifying himself as half-black (or half-white) and stuck with "black".
Wonder what he has against being white?
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Oh, Hell... I'm blacker that Barack Obama.
Yeah, but you got that caucasian dialect goin'...
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