Obama is Proud to be an American
"I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city."This from a speech the big 'O' gave in Berlin standing by the Victory Column "looking out toward the Brandenberg Gate."
Mmmmm…. I wonder what that might mean? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that he's referring to his 'color;' of course that could just be me. But he did go on to talk about his Kenyan father, the goat herder, immigrating (however temporarily) to America for a better life.
I could make quite an essay about Obama's tin ear on this one speech just considering the German problem assimilating its Turkish immigrants. There's a veritable buffet of offense to be taken.
Now, if a German wanted to see a full-blooded African-American, he could just wander over to one of the American military bases operating on German soil since World War Two (which might have been a good thing for Obama to do). Of course Obamo knows that, but what he meant was "I'm an 'important' American of color, just look at my parade."
But in June of 1938, another American spoke in Berlin, as well as across the rest of Germany. The Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, was perhaps our first international spokesman of color, and according the 'infallible' Wikipedia "was seen both by Whites and Blacks across his country as a symbol of hope." He wasn't seen, as television wasn't around and he happened to be in Yankee Stadium at the time, but as he beat the crap out of the 'Black Uhlan of the Rhine' a certain former leader made sure every German heard him on the radio.
A lot of history has passed since then including the pacification of Germany, which Obama might have wanted to keep in mind as well as he told the Germans "The Afghan people need…..your troops."
