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Originally Posted by peter12
I took a course on the Black Muslims last semester. It was interesting as we studied the movements capabilities and significant success at alleviating black poverty in the US. How did they do it? By essentially advocating a shift to a WASP lifestyle. Not in a racial way, but by advocating things like financial responsibility, the family and social morality. Obama may be the "whitest black guy around", but he's also quite inspiring in a way.
Blacks have suffered and endured amazing abuse by the US government and culture. They've survived but at a huge social cost. They need guys like Obama to show them that you can beat the "System" at it's own game, regardless of your skin colour.
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That's interesting--and there's a long tradition of Middle-class black communities cropping up in various places in the Atlantic region. Germantown in Philadelphia is one example, though that neighbourhood has fallen on hard times in recent decades.
But I do feel the need to point out that Obama isn't a black muslim--he's born and raised a Christian. His grandfather was a Muslim and his stepfather was a sort of casual Muslim in Indonesia, but Obama himself has never been a Muslim. Not that it matters--and I recognize that you were just drawing a comparison, not connecting Obama to Islam--but given the ugly smears that circulate on the internet about him attending a
madrassa and so forth, I thought it an important thing to clarify.