What race do you consider Obama to be? (Pelosi, income, European)
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Well his dad was black and his mom was white so doesn't that make him wack? (black/white)
Sorry, but like folks have said. Who really cares what race he is? I guess if you want to get down to the nitty gritty of him being the first black president. In that case he is the first black president because he is black and white.
The word "race" was coined by anthropologist to describe how a person Looked (morphology) and not anything else about them, so as long as were are using the word race out side of a discusion of anthropology, How does he "Look?" African Genes are so dominate that anyone with an African Parent, Mother or father is going to look like a black person, so their "race" will be black or Negroid, yes there are only three races in the world,
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What race do you consider Obama to be? I consider him multi-racial because he is both black and white. Everyone seems to consider him just black, but he's not, he can also equally be called white!
I would vote, but I don't understand the meaning of the question. It does not matter what race he is.
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What race do you consider Obama to be? I consider him multi-racial because he is both black and white. Everyone seems to consider him just black, but he's not, he can also equally be called white!
Okay see this is it. I'm an older woman, 48, not old old, but old enough to remember my 20s, that would put it around 1980, when I began to notice mix marriages. I felt sorry for the kids, the children having to go to school and feeling that they don't belong.
I was called a buck tooth, four-eyed beaver. I remembered it; it was hard enough for me. I'm not alone in my boat. There are allot of people who understand what I went through as they went through it, as well. No matter what, you just don't belong.
Obama stood on the platform for change. Have we changed? Are we ever going to change? Is there change for us any time in our future?
Not if our ideals stay the same. A person's ideals does not stop at the outer packaging of their spirit.
can someone close this thread. and african american isnt a race its an ethnic group of american blacks of the black race. african americans are the largest of many black groups in the U.S who are AMERICAN BY NATIONALITY ONLY with no immigration roots going back to other contries compared to people like jamaicans, bajans, nigerians etc
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