Obama: First Black POTUS or First Mixed Race POTUS?

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Oh really - then I say to you; STFU about your topic.

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There is no longer a legal definition of blackness. The anti-miscegenation laws were rmade null and void by a 1967 United States Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Loving v. Virginia . Thus, since 1967, there has been in this country no law – either superficial or scientific – defining who is black.


http://www.washingtoninformer.com/ARLegallyBlack2005Dec8.html

Donno bout that. When I lived in La. many moons ago if you had 1/32 or 1/36 (not sure) black in you they put black on your birth certificate.

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If it makes black people feel good about themselves to classify him as black . . . let him be black.

If it makes white people feel good about themselves to classify him as white . . . let him be white.

If people weren't so fuggin' racist, it wouldn't matter either way. I say STFU about the topic, we have more important things to think about.

He seems considers himself mixed race and doesn't have a problem with it.

"Mutts like me".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_el_pr/mutts_like_me;_ylt=AvKuby.kB7GQ41tT4jaNIEUDW7oF

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Donno bout that. When I lived in La. many moons ago if you had 1/32 or 1/36 (not sure) black in you they put black on your birth certificate

Oh I do not doubt that at all. I have members of my extended family that STILL believe that way in that same part of the country. To them anyone with ANY black ancestry makes them black.. period.

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All the media outlets tell me he's the first black President, but he's of mixed race; having a black Kenyan father and white American mother, right?

Lots of Americans, blacks included, are of mixed parentage. Historically, somebody like President Obama (geez, I like the sound of that...) would have been considered black with a lot less black and a lot more white blood. In the days of slavery, the lighter complexioned slaves got to be the house servants, rather than work in the fields, which to this day has led to a lot of nasty "house nigger" talk. But house servants or not, they were still slaves, BECAUSE they were black.

In New Orleans, there was a highly prized class of prostitutes known as octaroons, because they were only 1/8 black blooded. And still considered black and still kept in slavery.

I would think the fact that Jesse Jackson has questioned whether Obama is "black enough" should settle the question. If Brother Jesse doubts it, then Obama MUST be black ! (Saw Brother Jesse crying on TV the other night, "Boo-hoo, it should've been ME, boo-hoo...").

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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I would think the fact that Jesse Jackson has questioned whether Obama is "black enough" should settle the question. If Brother Jesse doubts it, then Obama MUST be black ! (Saw Brother Jesse crying on TV the other night, "Boo-hoo, it should've been ME, boo-hoo...").

In a way, Obama owes a debt to Jackson. It showed him what not to do to get elected.