Senator Barack Obama often mentions being a black man. I as an Afro-American have no trouble with that.  I feel that many other Afro-Americans view Sen Obama as black as well.  The trouble with that is that most multi-racial people do not view themselves as black.(For this blog when I say multi-racial, I am talking about Afro-European, Afro-Asian, Afro-Indian,etc.}
    In the seventies I attended Temple University in Philly.  One of my friends was David Montgumery from Alabama.   David said he was a mulatto.  We said it would be easier for him if he called himself black, but David never did.  In the nineties I lived in Norristown Pa. I knew the European mother of a multi-racial daughter. She mentioned how hard it was for her daughter on tests when ethnic identity was questioned. Unfortunately multi-racial was not an option and other was not an attractive choice for her.  Remember when Tiger Woods caused an uproar be saying he was not black but Afro-Asian-Indian.
    Most of the mainstream media will not even touch this. Only Townhall radio had the courage to suggest that Obama had some kind of self hatred by denying part of his heritage. I do not know about that. I do know that Obama voted present 100 times in the US Senate.  Perhaps Obama is a slick gigglo politican who tell people what they want to hear?