The Vulcan Obama -- Is He Vulcan Enough?

Those of you who remember the old Star Trek series remember Mr. Spock, the Science Officer and good friend of Captain Kirk of the starship USS Enterprise.

Did you know that Mr. Spock was of a mixed heritage? His father was a full-blooded Vulcan named Sarek, but his mother was a human White woman named Amanda.

There are members of the Vulcan community who say: "Is Mr. Spock Vulcan enough? Can we trust him to be loyal to Vulcan values and to the Vulcan community? He may look like one of us, but that does not mean he is one of us. As a matter of fact, he looks too human. And he was hanging around that human Kirk a lot. Has he lost touch with his own Vulcan heritage? That fact that humans accept him means that is a bad thing for Vulcans."

People on earth are saying, "That is stupid. Of course Spock is Vulcan. He is very logical and articulate. If he gets into a pre-owned space shuttle and lives in a neighborhood in a middle-class planetary system, every one can see those pointed ears and funny eyebrows and everyone would say 'There is a Vulcan.' Even Romulans, who share a common heritage with Vulcans, all agree without exception that Spock is Vulcan."

But some Vulcans are saying, "Spock is not Vulcan. He is a 'human Vulcan.' We cannot call him just a 'Vulcan.' There is a difference." Other Vulcans say, "We honor Spock as an 'adopted Vulcan.'" Others say that Spock is hanging around too many humans and not Vulcans. Something is wrong with that." "How much logic (their equivalent for love), does he have for the Vulcan community?" others say. Some even wear buttons that say, "It's a Vulcan thing. You wouldn't logically understand."

"Human Klingons," people of mixed human/Klingon heritage say, "We really feel for Spock. We get the same thing from full-blooded Klingons all the time. They say to us, 'You are not really Klingon' or 'You are not Klingon enough.' It makes us want to do the Death Yell to our ancestors. Some of us even try to hide our human heritage and pretend to be full-blooded Klingons just to avoid trouble. They will say things like 'Exterminate all humans,' 'Hate Terrans (humans)', 'Back to the Home World,' etc. They don't want to be called in the Klingon language 'TennuS Klarg's' which is the human African-African equivalent of 'Uncle Tom.' And if you have even 1/16th Klingon blood, you are still considered a Klingon to humans." Who is to say who is "authentically Vulcan" or "authentically Klingon"?

If Spock ran for President of the United Federation of Planets, it would be a shame that all the other planets voted for him and not his own planet who did not consider him "Vulcan enough."

Is he the "Vulcan" Obama?

Is that not logical?