Toby Keith: Obama acts white to win

Here's a tip Toby Keith and anyone else...if you aren't Black, stop trying to get the inside track on the Black perspective. It only makes you sound prejudice.

Well i think your mistaken if you think that white people haven't set the standards. Race is a delicate issue, but if you can't speak about it bluntly and honestly then you miss important issues. White men run this world mostly, and its an unfortunate, but true fact.

Yeah, you shoulda probably gathered your thoughts together on that one a little better before you wrote mookster_07...that whole "white people have set the standards in the world..." comment can't be your best attempt at not sounding offensive...right?

Of course a public official, someone trying to be elected as president of our country, is going to be a well spoken, educated man.
I come from a large, loud italian family, and when speaking publicly, or when trying to gain the respect of my audience, i am not going to speak the way I would around the dinner table.

The whole "acting white" thing kind of has something to it though. Culturally speaking, black culture and white culture are very different. A professor of mine in college told me once about a young elementary school teacher who was having difficulty with disciplining her black students. The teacher was white, and would approach the black students with a soft tone, asking them to sit down, or stop talking, or whatever. my professor (a strong, black, insanely intelligent woman from georgia) told the teacher to take a different tone with the child, something firmer, and to command the child, and not ask. That would probably be what the child was used to growing up in a black home. So there are differences in the way black and white people communicate themselves.

I'm trying to convey a pretty complicated idea as quickly as possible, so i'm sorry if i offend, that's clearly not my intention.

Education has just begun to really spread to the black community in america (within the last 40 years or so). A lot of people are equating education with the way one presents themselves, but education shouldn't mean you give up your roots. Just because someone is educated doesn't mean they should have to change the way they are.

White people have set the standards in the world, and other cultures must conform to make it professionally.

This is a much more complex concept that i'm trying to get across, but my brain is misfiring.

"the black people"

Nevermind that he already stated he has no idea what the hell he's talking about...I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said by keith, lulu, damnneargenius, etc.

Toby just needs to promptly sit his racist ass in the corner

this is killing me...and pple say obama or black pple as a whole are always playing the "race" card.. these types of insults are just as bad**smh*

keithP...nothing pisses me off more than the old " why are you talking white" or acting "black" thing what an insult to the black community..again putting all blck pple in one category like we all think and act and look the same..shameful...never listened to Tobey keith..dont plan to but who the hell is he to say anything about what the "black" population is thinking

on the flip.... ive had plenty of "black" pple say that about acting white thus disrespecting themselves...shame!

not to harp on it , but for peeps like Keith , O. is hard to make out - O. doesn't fit into the whole "i like black people but i hate nigs " mentality , so it's easier to just say O. doesn't represent the kind of "blacks" peeps like Keith are usually inclined to like ( the approval of which more or less implies that you aren't really a racist redneck - because you're willing to publicly say you like "black people " ) , O. is running for president , so Keith can't deny the fact that O. can't really be a "nig" - so Keith says O. isn't really "black" , nor is O. a "nig" - which really doesn't say much about Keith beyond him being a f--ng backwards ass idiot .

Toby Keith is a stupid red neck bigot. Obama isn't acting in any way. He is just what he appears to be. A damned sight smarter better person than Toby Keith.

Keith represents the "NASCAR patriots" .

Toby Keith-

Pandering red-neck three minute hero that knows three chords on a guitar! Wears incredibly ugly hats that probably cant even saddle his own horse or string his own guitar! Sang some racist fascist song in 2004 "about sticking some boot up some middle-easterners ass!” Ran the ford truck company into the ground with tacky awful truck commercials featuring Keith the hick with his gross stomach hanging out from under his shirt!

Oh that guy again! He just pops up every few years to squander diversity, democracy etc. only to sing for the neo-cons, war, monopolies and incredibly stupid short sighted people!

Good point huntre

If, like me, you are voting for Senator Obama, Toby Keith is the perfect example of the mindset you'll be up against.
Don't ever forget that.

"Now, Keith has trained his sights on Barack Obama, attacking him in racially tinged language that startled even the notoriously reactionary radio jock Glenn Beck. During Keith's appearance on the July 30 broadcast of Beck's show, he remarked, "I think the black people would say he [Obama] don't talk, act or carry himself as a black person." "

Oh, yeah! Pop cultural Amerika's two foremost authorities on cultural diversity and contemporary ethnicity in America, the klansman Toby Keith and the Lebensborn Hitler jungen Glenn Beck. I suppose they know better than anyone what 'acting white' is.

I wanna hear him have a "nigger moment" as Aaron McGruder calls it lol
Maybe he'll win
it worked for Chris rock in Head of state lol

Toby Keith panders to the redneck , wifebeating , klansmen that controls the Republican party. Never liked him or his pride for southern ignorance. I say bury the fu#*^r in a confederate flag, boycott anything associated with his rasict ass and move on. Oh yes, I almost forgot, maybe drop his country ass off in the middle of Gary IN with the sign Bruce Willis wore in Die Hard 3.

Obama is white fool, and black, and brown, and......

Wow

Is it not 2008??

What a stupid thing to say....

I hate him music anyway. haha

So, if you speak correctly then you are "acting white." Then what is Toby Keith acting like?

He should act white(whatever that means), he is white, is there any reason why he should be considered more black than white?

A white man speaking for black people. Enough said.

acting white is something toby'll never have to do.

What an idiotic thing to say.

In related news Toby Keith has just been hired by the McCain campaign in order to "red-up" McCain in order to win more rural voters.

Apparently it's working.

McCain has been seen blowing his nose into his t-shirt, engaging in lengthy rants on the stump about how the "Jews control government" and, most recently, responded to a complex question regarding steel tarrifs by screaming "Fuck you, ya faggot!" and then chanting "USA! USA! USA!" for ten minutes straight.

Will acting "red" swing the election decidedly in McCain's favor? It just might. In polls taken immediately after McCain's "red" stunts his approval rating in 15 states has just shot up 73 percent.

Campaign experts believe that if McCain actually beats an Iraqi or a homosexual to death live on camera (while chanting "USA! USA!" of course) he'll achieve an insurmountable lead over Obama.

"I done do really like that McCain feller," one, uh, rural Republican voter said. "He's tough on national security. And he keeps dem queers in their place too."

I accuse Toby Keith of being a proper gentleman, but ACTING like a tough-talkin' truck driving shit kickin' cousin humpin' redneck in a cynical ploy to sell records to rural Southerners suffering from generations of inbreeding.

Mr. Keith knows he would never be accepted into "red" society if he were seen using a napkin, drinking a latte or whiping his ass with anything other than his fingers.

He's just acting red!

Oh sure, Toby ACTS like he is a mildly retarded racists who "done don't nothing bout no fancy things like dem thar iPods and such." -- but it's just an act.

There used to be a YouTube video floating around (apparently taken without Mr. Keith's knowledge) clearly showing him drinking herbal tea, wearing a necktie, and updating his financial information on his computer in Excel using (I shit you not) a complex pivot table....while listening to NPR!

The video was taken down after Mr. Keith's team of lawyers threatened to sue YouTube.

Toby Keith is a phony who is just acting "red" in order to sell records!

Come out of the closet Mr. Keith.

The saying goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" I agree Obama appears to be a sophisticated, articulate individual. I do not trust his judgment or his ability to lead this country, he may be a nice fellow so was Jimmy Carter.

Why is it that acting civil and decent is a "white" thing?

Why is it that gangster shit is considered a "black" thing?

This is closeted racism and it's going to get much much worse before this campaign ends.

I don't think Obama is "acting" either. I think he genuinely is a good man.

i am so sick of this whole presidential race having racial undertones to it.
i can not wait for the day when we can look at someone based off of who they are, and not what they look like.
someone call me when we get to that point...

If he means that Obama carries himself with class, respect, and intelligence, I'll take that as a compliment.

Unfortunately FAR TOO MANY people do not embody these traits independent of race, so therefore behavior can't be considered a "black" or "white" thing without bringing completely flawed racist stereotypes into the equation.

There are "wiggers" like K-Fed that I'm sure Toby Keith doesn't think too highly of, and there are plenty of classy black men whose behavior embodies respect and kindness.

I simply think he was trying to say Obama carries himself with much more country-type and/or respectful values than, I don't know, Ludacris?

Still, it came across wrong. Obama is acting like an excellent role model period and his race shouldn't be brought into it.

I know exactly what he means and I'm sure most of you do as well, you don't hear Obama throwing slang around, he is very careful to not speak in any way other then mainstream, he dresses the role as well, this is also alienating him from many Blacks so much so that you have people like Jesse Jackson wanting to cut his balls off because he talks down to Black people "his words". The other side is he is half white something the Black community or the media really don't want to talk about, personally I find it offensive that he denigrates his white ancestry and plays up the Black. I find it dishonest to a degree but I understand it totally, he wants to be the first.

This coming from a man that has a Ford truck grill as a backdrop during concerts.
He is a Bush lover didn't he even fight with the Dixie Chicks about this, dunno country is nawt anywhere close to being what I consider music.

I ignore anyone that has a last name that could also be a first name..

what the hell is 'acting white'?
what does that mean?

He has a somewhat point
the Black Society is falling because of that mindset
LUCKLY it's becoming a small percentage and that percentage dont vote lol
UNless of course p.diddy comes back with his Vote or die campaign

Of course, Toby Keith is the definitive voice of the "Black People" and Barack Obama is the Democratic Candidate only because of his look and his diction not his abilities and the overwhelming fact that AMERICANS believe that he is the better candidate.

Wow, Toby Keith is who i always look to for political opinion. He's a washed-up racist hick...get real. Lol