what is in a name?

What is in a name? Barak Hussein Obama —What do they really mean by that?

I want to start by stating that I am not an Obama or a McCain supporter.
But since he announced that he would be running for president, a segment of the American population started digging into his background, being a Black guy running for president- to find out that his name includes “ Hussein”. That is all they need to charge against him. So when these right wingers, fundamentalists so called Christians and their supporters caught on this “ Hussein” thing, they started to use it a against him.
So what do they really mean when they invoke “ the “ Hussein” thing.
What they mean is this:
Hey, listen Osama, You live with us, but you will never be one of us.
So what does that mean?
Does it mean, if you are an American citizen for generations and hundreds of years, and you happened to have an Arabic, Moslem or African name, or even Hispanic: now you don’t qualify to be in politics, you don’t qualify to run for office. Because they hold it against you?
What is to do if you happened to have an Arabic, Moslem or African name then?
Is American democracy or representation only reserved for white Anglo sounding names?
Now, let us consider if an American Jew is running for the president, and happens that he/she has a middle or a last name: “isrealstien”, would they invoke that being Jewish, with Jewish sounding name, against him. Of course not. Have they dare in saying that, they will be labeled anti-Semitic and of course they will wet in their pants?
So back to history: Malcolm X in one of his speeches to black people said:
You live with them… but you will never be considered one of them.
It was true then and it is still true now.

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