There are huge levels of disingenuousness about how much the Obamas benefitted from affirmative action, and about the fact that given his looks he had no choice but to forge an identity as an “African American”. I do agree with African American scholars that he is not an up from slavery African American, and not “black” in that sense. Also I’ve spent more time and been more engaged in life in Morocco than he has in Kenya; and I know of no African who would brag about his granny living in poverty or his half-brother living in a slum when he was as successful as Obama–so I don’t find him particularly African in that sense either.

And I don’t consider America a scary place as I have lived and studied there for a few years ..se (The Biography of a Saudi Fraud)
http://saudirevelations.wordpress.com/the-biography-of-a-saudi-fraud/
It’s not as scary as the media makes it sound, but no one can say that it is as safe as Jeddah or Makkah for instance.
I lived in Denver where it was relatively safe, but we used to get warnings from time to time about rapists or murderers breaking loose from prision.
However, when we took a tour to different American states, we felt it was much less safer than Denver.

“Unfortunately, I have learned no one is really gonna do anything for you unless you do something for yourself.”

I sincerely believe in this.
thanks

Also, I sense and correct me if I am wrong that you have been induced with fears about what a dangerous place America is so as in your example that you can safely go out to Danube Supermarket to get ice-cream. I need to check out that store. K that aside, I think watching certain T.V. shows (wallahi I wrote ‘T.V. shoes’ and self corrected) even reality ones like “Snapped” etc., can be very damn scary. Even watching the American news, can fill one with irrational fears. However, I can assure you that America is a relatively safe place. I have done things in which some of my friends and family were sure I would get chopped into pieces and served for lunch but I came out in one piece Thank God.

Unfortunately, I have learned no one is really gonna do anything for you unless you do something for yourself.

“I see a smile and happiness on faces”

I invite everyone here to listen to this view on Obama from a very simple man…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5-D1OPAB0&feature=related

Here is my translation of it…I tried to avoid literal translation as possible, but of course, as I always beleive, translation kills the soul of the word, especially with very local and non-classic Arabic lyrics.
Enjoy

But I hope that Obama is better than Bush
Bush _ may he lives in misery
Has destroyed us for days and years
And people think that Obama
Is going to be Salahudeen
And what will Obama do
After the destruction made by Bush and his father?
They didn’t leave a place on Earth without wiping it out :
Famines, financial crisis, and wars
The son of the **** is gone now
But has left us with bricks of destruction
Obama seems to know what we dream of..how we feel
But let us not dream and have high hopes, for the dream might turn into a nightmare
Let us remain as we are, for we got used to agony
So Bush has left and Obama has come..so what he’ll be able to do? What will happen?
Palestine is still occupied and war still prevails in Iraq
People are living in humiliation and hostility generates only more hostility
No matter what Obama does,
AlHariri won’t come back , nor will Sheikh Yaseen
Arafat will never come back ..he lived a sorrowful life
And when he died, everybody knew it was caused by Mossad.
Poor Arabs…peace on you…waiting for Obama to help you and have mercy on you
But no Bush or Obama is thinking of you…
There’s nothing that will help you except taking your rights in your own hands
Only “you” can protect yourselves.
We’ll see!

Need I add I was talking to him in the ophthalmologist’s office?
LOL