alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> America's First Black President.

  I don't really get it. Does having *one* of your parents black make
you also black? Why is it ok to say he is black, but it would sound
strange to call him white? Is white ancestry "less hereditary" than
black one?

  If Obama married a white woman and they had kids, would those kids
also be "black"? If your great great grandfather was black, and everyone
else in your family tree white, does that still make you black? Exactly
where do you stop being "black"?

  AFAIK the technically correct term is mulatto:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

  (Unless that has been officially declared a racist word lately, which
wouldn't actually surprise me.)

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