How can someone(Obama or a person) be racist only by association?

Hi ghetto, I saw your answer on my question and that you asked why people were ignoring your question. I think the question is not real clear. There are like 5 questions here and I'm not real sure what you're asking. I think if people CHOOSE to associate themselves closely with racists they are probably a little racist themselves. Not always, but if the majority of ones friends and such are racist I think that speaks to the character of the person themself.

His comments in his book speak for themselves.

From Dreams of My Father, " I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE".

From 'Dreams of my Father', "The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

From 'Dreams of My Father',

"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"

From Dreams Of My Father:

"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."

Edit: Ghetto, if that were true then where are his comments about him struggling to identify with his black side? All the comments are animosity directed towards white people. A biracial person only struggles with being white?