President Obama pretends to be Black

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But how can he be African-American when his dad is African-African?

Chris Rock put it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDxOSjgl5Z4

That isn't really saying much. A person with two black grandparents (or six black great-grandparents, or 14 great-great-grandparents...) could come out just as "white" as you.

Several prominent black people have commented that President Obama is not the first black president.

For example, the actor Morgan Freeman

"He's not America's first black president, he's America's first mixed-race president."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/m ... ent-345661

His mom is a (white) American. When an African and an American have a child, African-American really is the best fit.

Actually I don't know that, as I haven't bothered looking into his family tree but I've heard rumors...either way wouldn't that make him black and white as in mixed race? Though he certainly looks more black than white, though he does have a more European style nose so I would believe he's at least part white. Not really sure why it should matter to me though, just seems like more straw grasping to discredit the guy....even if he's not 100% African decent I think its safe to say he's the first president of a racial minority to be elected here for whatever that's worth.

The controversial 2012 documentary film Dreams from My Real Father ( http://www.obamasrealfather.com/ ) made several claims, not least of which was that the president's father was Frank Marshall Davis ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... eal+father ). If true, the claims would appear to be a game changer in the life and times of Barack Obama.

Who cares? Why is skin colour still such a big issue in the U.S.? The rest of the world has moved on, we don't take a person's ethnicity, nationality, or colour into consideration anymore. This is the 21st, not 19th, century.

The President has African American features, skin, and hair - he's black.
As for being of mixed race - in fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any African Americans today without any white ancestry, so most black Americans would technically qualify as mixed race. And not just African Americans, as white indentured servants used to mix genes with blacks imported from Africa back in America's early history, and as hardly all of their kids went on to live as slaves, there are a great many whites today with African ancestry.

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Ugh, gimme a break. He could be part Martian and I still wouldn't care.

Not quite correct regarding white people's hair. While most white people's hair may seem "straight as a board" relative to most black people's hair, white people's hair actually has a far greater tendency to be wavy.

Among the peoples most likely to have "straight as a board" hair are Han Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese.

Not really. He doesn't look really dark like the immigrants from Africa who live a few houses down from me. Obama's more of a milky cocoa than black.

I recall hearing Native Americans use the term "black white men" to describe the first Africans they encountered.

Speaking of Native Americans, I think they often use the 1/64 rule. I guess it makes sense, since they have suffered even worse oppression than African-Americans in the aggregate.

Obama never denied his white heritage.

You mean someone who is 1/64 NA can be part of a tribe. Actually it's much stricter than that. Tribes aren't even accepting new members.

It could be wavy due to a gene from way back they inherited from an African ancestor. Most people cannot trace their ancestry through the generations. Asians are far less likely to have African ancestors for thousands and thousands of years while whites could possibly have some in their background because Africa is much closer to where the caucasians are clustered, traditionally, which would be Europe and some of Russia. And a caucasian might not necessarily have kids with a black partner, rather, one from northern Africa or the middle east, and since these places are either in Africa or very close, the chances some of the people from there will have genes from a black ancestor and this is how they were spread into Europe, through the Roman Empire for one. I haven't heard of anyone who can trace their genes back to the Roman Empire, 2000 + years ago. Maybe some of the royals can, and people in the ME.

It is interesting you noted the fact about Asians because they actually are the ones who are less likely to have black ancestry and if they do, it might be so far back it simply will not show up in their hair so you see a preponderance of straight hair.

Also, people who are native American without any white or black ancestors are likely to have the same hair as the Asians, and they were isolated, too, like the Asian population, from the gene that produces curls or waves, depending on what genes it's paired with.

This.

And besides- the USA is not Latin America were "mixed race" is a traditional category.

In the segregated jim crow anglo saxon pre WWII America you were either "Black" or "White". Someone who was 15/16ths Black was socially and even legally defined as "Black", so obviously someone 8/16 Black (like Obama) would also be legally defined as "Black" and would ride in the back of the bus, and probably would not be allowed to vote (much less run for office, much less making it to the White House). And the average "full blooded" Black American is 30 percent White ancestry anyway (almost equal to Obama's genetic mix).

So if you don't like Obama being labeled "Black" take your complaint to the now dead White American law makers of the past who set up the rules.