Obama's mother is white, so how is he a black man?

I answered this before, but I'll give you a different, more simplistic answer. Calling himself Black is a much better gimmick than calling himself multiracial. He has almost no experience and lacks any reasonable qualifications so that gimmick is all he's got.

I agree with you 100% and it rankles me too! The people here in the US have always been very prejudiced against blacks and even if someone has the smallest bit of black in them they are considered black. There have been movies made about people who look white but have 2 black parents and all they problems they experienced. To me that proves that the US is overly prejudiced about blacks.

because mixed race is not a race that is recognized in the usa, you are one or the other, and since he has black in him, that is the dominant colour is is a black man, according to the american culture to be white you have to be 100% white, if you are not then you belong to whatever other race that you have in you.

I just see it as a generalization and do not thing it has to become an issue if no one brings it up, certainly Obama did not.

I'm not from USA, but I hope you American will choose the right president, Bush was, and is a bad example... don't make any more mistake ever again... long live USA! (usa, not bush!)

From my experience, mixed-raced people are usually called by their minority-race part. In Obama's case, it would be the black part. And in his case, it's also the part that's dominant in his appearance. I totally agree with you. It doesn't matter what race someone is. What matters most is their actions. People shouldn't be judged by their appearance, but by their actions. Too bad that is this world, there are many people who see their own race as the 'better' race, thus discriminating people of other races... A lot of people condemn Hitler's view of a 'superior race', but are themselves practicing discrimination of other races, which is, in my opinion, just the same. The only difference with the Nazis would be that they don't practice genocide...

I think people should be elected based on their ability to be a good leader and skin color shouldn't be considered at all. Its sad that in 2008 people still bring up race. We need to listen to the issues and how each person plans to resolve the problem.

Obama, right or wrong is considered a black man because that is what is visable. I am not American, but I do agree it shouldn't matter what the exterior colour of anyone is. What should matter is what is inside, that also goes for gender. As a outside observer, I hope bias over colour or gender will not be a deciding factor over your elections. But I don't know if it will. All I do know is regardless who you decide to elect it can't and won't be any worse then what you have had for the past 8 yrs.