Political Humor

Image source: Light of the Future by Erica Joy

Sen. Barack Obama (D) Illinois, and leading Democrat Party Presidential hopeful has been plagued throughout his short career by assertions that he may not be black enough. Half black, half white, Obama is hoping to be half of all things to a little more than half of all voters come this November.

Born to a mixed racial couple, young Barack was raised by his white mother and all but White Supremacist grandmother – who in a recent speech on race relations, he threw under the bus of Political Expediency.

His early life was one of mostly white schools and neighborhoods, and he had little contact with the Black Community. Sometime during these seminal years, Barrack began to feel that he was a black man trapped in a half white body. But it wasn’t until he got to college, that he applied the Black Face make-up – made famous in the early 1900 by famed actor, comedian, and singer Al Jolson.

In the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, Jolson – a Jewish immigrant – once again portrayed his Black Face character that he had made famous. Many have speculated that this was his way of fighting against racial bigotry and attempting to unite the country, much the same way Senator Obama has done by uniting the Democrat party along with his good friend, – the white – Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) New York.

In a side note, Jolson supported the conservative Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 presidential race, where as most other Jewish performers supported the losing liberal candidate, John Williams Davis, showing that the times have changed little in the entertainment field.

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