OK So by default the child of a white and black parent is black? How Racist is` that!? really reaching people?

If my child becomes president he's not getting the entitled recognition.! Yes, Im upset.OK So by default the child of a white and black parent is black? How Racist is` that!? really reaching people?
There is no ';legitimate'; definition of race to compare it to.





All definitions of race are strictly matters of popular convention, and will change over time.





Obama is black because he thinks of himself that way, and because society accepts him that way. This is as real a definition of black as there can be.





No it's not racism. Racism is an ideology that seeks to distribute political power based on some definition of racial division. The definition itself generally exists prior to that and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it.OK So by default the child of a white and black parent is black? How Racist is` that!? really reaching people?
I think this debate shows how far we have to go in racial relations, more than any barriers that have been broken. President Obama may be the first African-American President (his parents were African and American, hence African-American), but that's not the same as ';black';. He's actually rather brown. The color of someone's skin is not important, and despite all the laws and ';progress'; we've made, we still can't get people to understand that.





I just would like to say, we will only see true equality when we have a new President - and nobody talks about what color he or she is, might be, or should be called.
Historically anyone with one drop of african blood was called ';black'; because white folks wanted to classify and segregate blacks and whites down to the nth degree. Ever heard of an Quadroon? An octroon? White people were so obsessed with not wanting to mistakenly fall in love with a person of color they devised classifications to label any one with an ounce of african blood. Now that's Raciest if you ask me.
It is legitimate to give Obama the entitled recognition for being the first black president because his skin is dark in color, and as an issue of race he is labeled by society for the color of his skin not for the DNA in his veins. Racist don't get a blood sample.





What does it truly mean to be black? I'm not. But I have a pretty sharp imagination and the power of empathy, so I can live vicariously.


Truth be told, I think the way people view black people has changed over the years, racism isn't subtle but the look has changed.





The modern racist can except that a man of any color of skin can be an intelligent, well spoken, decent human being, but there's it's all those n*stars f*starring everything. And any one can be an n*star: white, mexicans, asians. Anyone can be a n*star but we use a word that's origin is the color black.


Getting further off topic,


This has a powerful effect, especially when it is done unknowingly.





It seems to me that the modern ';racist'; has redirected it's hatred at the poor and label it with a word that means black, i guess so that we remember which color is good.


Getting back to topic.


So we have the hatred directed at the lower class, the workless stupid leeches of the ogvernment, etc.





Becoming a president, birthed out of this lower class of adversity, would be a great feat for any man.





Did Obama overcome adversity on this level?





This is not to question whether or not he has had his fair share of ups and downs....


Honestly, have he risen from the depth of poverty to become the leader of the (fwee) world?


Honest question, i have no idea, don't do my research.





To conclude


If you saw him on the street without him being ';President Obama, Lord and Savior'; you would think, ';dark skin- black';





and i think if some black people met him; were he just some guy with dark skin they might refer to him as ';whitebread'; and may even question his ';blackness'; simply because he speaks in a scholarly way.
Being that most multiracial children look more black than they do white, yes. How is it racist if most genes that add melanin to ones skin pigmentation appear to be dominantly expressed? Obama is both black and white, being one race doesn't negate the other.
It's called historical precedent. Throughout US history, half-black people were treated just as much as second class citizens as black people. White people never saw a difference. The only reason conservatives are making the distinction now is to try to diminish Obama's accomplishment of becoming president.
That's not racist. The color of the persons skin determines whether people call him white or black. It's not the same as being called african american because it's the color of the skin, not the ancestry behind it.
Actually, the child that has one white and one black parent is a Mulatto, although some consider the term derogatory





Many years ago, the blacks who considered themselves ';truly black'; hated Mulattos.
biracial is what I call Obama, and yes, I have been called racist for referring to him as biracial, and I still don't get it.
Depends on the dominant genetic factor. If the parent has the dominant white (rare) gene then the child looks more fair. I've seen biracial children where their ethnic race was in detectable.
Actually that's not correct. They go by the race of the mother. Thanks to the fact that my mother is white, I am considered white even though I don't look like I am. I take more after my father.
This is why Tiger Woods said if he did not acknowledge his Asian mother he would be disrespecting her by calling himself black~


Tiger calls himself multiracial
Racist?? Sexist is more like it. If your dad's black, they call you black. If your dad's white, they call u white.
The history of colorism in the US.
Who cares what color the skin of a person is? The world will always have racists in it. Sad.
you do know that geneticly speaking there is no such thing as race?