Is Obama really our first black president?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Tecnically black?

[akdiver 3]

Yes Black is a culture...no matter what COUNTRY you are from. What is wrong with people? Why does no one understand this?

So, can yo be lilly white in colour, but still be black if you identify with and live that culture?

Well in this society no...

in other words, even using your own definition, you can only BE black if you ARE black.

[Amby 490]

you guys can have it too

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Race talk will quickly become tedious, especially since it seems to raise a lot of stereotypes.

[rocks 494]

you guys can have it too

i forgot about this song, how appropriate.

[akdiver 3]

Race talk will quickly become tedious, especially since it seems to raise a lot of stereotypes.

Amen.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

By pre-1965 US standards (where a person needed to only be 10% Subsaharan African genetically to be termed "black"), Obama is black (note that US was known for using the terms "black" and "coloured" interchangeably)

By apartheid-era South African qualifications (), he's "coloured".

(adding some hits to a decomposing bronc)

[Amby 490]

you guys can have it too

i forgot about this song, how appropriate.

my sister came in the house singing it and I thought she was just being bizarre until she told me it was a real song

[DanielParul 50]

People who feel that its racist to call him 'white'... Isn't it as racist to call him 'black'?

No offence but aren't all equal then why do people keep using this 'black' card for their benefit and keep separated from the rest??

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

i thought clinton was our first black president.

[Amby 490]

i thought clinton was our first black president.

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

Obama is half-white. His father, who was black, abandoned him and his mother when he was about two years old. He lived with his white mother and white grandparents. This being the case, if he is half black and half white - isn't it just as accurate to call his a white president as it is to call him a black president?

It is as accurate to call him a white president as to call him a black president. But that's not how society views it.

I remember him saying something like this: "Yes, I am as white as I am black, but the majority of this country views me as a black man when they first see me. Therefore I am black." (not his exact words, and I don't know when/where I heard this, but you get the message)

[Niels Bohr 72]

"I think, therefore I AM"

[Scott & Lai 12]

haha....dont know where this came from. My husband is half white...father is white....and he would shoot somebody for thinking he's white.

Flip that around: if a man who was half white/half black said they would shoot somebody for thinking he was black, would you consider that acceptable? Or would that be racist?

[*JG* 2]

if he can run it better then the rich idiot who ran for 8 years I dont care if he is green with freaking polka dots

A-----freakin'-----men!