Extremely bizarre people live in Blogistan.  Like, say, the ones who insist on arguing about whether this election was “historically significant” in terms of race because… they, say, come on, our President elect is half white.

I hear you.  But, no, I did not make that up so I could write a post about it.

It’s true, they exist.  I’ve seen their comments.  If you click that, I’m referring to the comments, and not the post itself.  And please don’t barrage that blog with comments because the author is extremely grumpy and will metaphorically kill me. Forget it, the link doesn’t work, you’ll have to take my word for it, and, besides, it’s not worth the potential humiliation that RW might throw my way for linking to him, anyway.  Ha ha.

Much can be said about these people.  I will say only this: they are obviously not… sepia toned, brown, mocha, light brown or even excessively tan.  They obviously have no idea that “half white” didn’t mean anything to the narrow minded bigots who reside in the history books of our nation.  Or that it still doesn’t mean anything to more than a few people living in our nation today.

In short, in this country, if you inherit your looks from the chocolaty goodness side of the gene pool, a racist doesn’t care if the other side of the gene pool looks like whitey-mc-white-white-vanilla-land.  They don’t care now, they didn’t historically care.

Fun Fact: If you were born in the antebellum South, and your mom was white, then you got to be white, too.  So, yeah, If Obama had been born in the antebellum South… what-ever.

Still, I understand that some people are just more visual.  Never fear, that’s why we have pictures like this one.

Barack Obama 2008

Thanks to Rich for posting this on his Facebook account for me to steal.  Historical significance aside, did anyone else notice how big Ford’s head was?

I mean, it’s just enormous compared to the other guys.

Finally, I’d like to steal the words of the very cool hellohahanarf (author of Midnight Cliff) who wrote about something that had nothing to do with this topic at all on Wednesday.  I’ve altered the sentence to suit my own post and purposes:

Ahem, “first one to ask me why the illustrator made him that dark gets slapped.”

P.S.  My dad actually read my blog yesterday and said, verbatim, “Why are you writing like Sarah Palin speaks?”  L.  M.  A.  O.