Obama half white!

I read Halle Berry talking about this and I thought her explanation was pretty good. She said that some people refused to accept that she was the first black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar because she has one white parent and one black parent, so strictly speaking she is mixed race, just like Barack Obama. But her response to that is that she has lived all her life in the skin of a black woman, she has experienced racism as a black woman, and therefore it is natural for her to regard herself as a black woman. All the people complaining that those of mixed race are not 'really' black would I imagine be pretty annoyed if Berry and Obama had decided to turn their back on their African heritage and self-define as white rather than black. But the truth is that option was never open to them, because white society looks at them and defines them as black.

He is not black, as far as I am concerned. But then I live in Canada and we consider the child has the same ethnic group as his father. So if your father is Dutch and your mother is from Ghana, you are Dutch-Canadian not an African-American. I think that part in the States is wrong and encourages people of only a little Negro in them from marrying those who are almost black to increase their percentage of the American population instead of because they are in love. And what if part of your genes came from someone who lived in Algeria would that count?

If you haven't heard of the one drop rule here's some info as to why Obama, Hally Berry and others aren't considered white even though they have a white parent. This "rule" goes back to slavery days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States that holds that a person with any trace of sub-Saharan ancestry (however small or invisible) cannot be considered white[1] and so unless said person has an alternative non-white ancestry they can claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, Australian aboriginal, they must be considered black. Simply put the rule basically stated that a person with as little as one drop of black blood in their heritage was to be considered black.

To me it doesn't matter if he is white or black, if you are mix with white and black, or black and anything they say you are black