Am Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:44:06 -0400 schrieb Warp:

> 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?

Interestingly there seem to be some historical reasons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule#Some_consequences_of_the_one-
drop_rule

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