Wenn es sich in Deutschland rumspricht, dass zu Obamas (angeheirateten) Verwandten auch ein (schwarzer) Rabbiner gehört, wird es mit der Obamania noch schneller vorbei sein als mit dem Waldsterben. Und bevor es in Europa nicht einen Präsidenten mit dem gleichen Hintergrund gibt, möchten wir vom Rassismus in den USA nix mehr hören. Basta! (hmb)
For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Protestant predecessors in the role. The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even a few phrases of Gullah, the Creole dialect of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Very few are wealthy, and some — like Sarah Obama, the stepgrandmother who only recently got electricity and running water in her metal-roofed shack — are quite poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21family.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=obama%20family%20diversity&st=cse&scp=3