Our "Black" President

We are a nation that is built on diversity that is what makes us the greatest society on Earth today. It is wonderful that we are able to celebrate who we are as individuals. However, as Americans we should focus more on our commonalities rather than our differences.

You always hear people say, "I am proud to be Irish-American, African-American, Latin-American, etc." That is were the problem lies. We should focus more on what ties us together. Why is it important emphasize our place origin? How many of us that are currently living in America have even been to our “native” countries from which we are so proud to proclaim that we are from? Don’t you think that our forefathers left their homeland for a reason?

My great grand parents fled from Russia because of the persecution from Stalin and the communists. Many others have fled their country due to poverty, war, famine etc. So why are we so quick to point out where we came from? If our home country that we are proclaiming to be from was so great why don’t we go back? I will tell you why, because the U.S.A. for all of it faults is still the land of opportunity which gives us the freedom to pursue our dreams.

So instead of saying I’m an African-American, Russian-American, Martian-American, whatever…why can’t we all just say, “I’m an AMERICAN!” Even our so called black African-American President Obama has admitted to being a mutt. Yet somehow we have defined him as an African-American.

There are many flaws with this statement. Barack Obama senior, Obama's father, was a polygamist who had already abandoned one wife and child in Africa when he met Obama's mother in Hawaii. Obama senior returned to Africa, abandoning Obama and his mother, to live the life of a chronic alcoholic who ultimately killed himself while driving drunk on the streets of Nairobi. Barack’s mom was a white girl that was born and raised in Kansas. Obama was also raised for the majority of his life by his white Grandparents in Hawaii. So explain to me how this makes Barack African-American? Despite it’s somehow politically incorrect stigma this would classify Barack as a Mulatto? But do you hear anybody calling him a Mulatto-American?

To sum up, the point that I am ultimately trying to make is that we are all Americans and that is all that matters. Why do we have to box ourselves up with these divisive terms? This is a time in history where we should all band together and rally as one nation under the American flag. You know what I am proud to say that I am an American who just so happens to have some lineage from somewhere in Russia. But I am an American first and foremost.