Obama's Race...

Well, I think it stems from the fact that "they" (whoever they are) says that if there is one ounce of black blood in a person they are black, regardless of what the other mix is. I think it is wrong, because like you said, he is mixed. My husband's son is mixed, but both sides of the family, the black side and the white side, sees him as a very nice young man. He interacts with his black side as well as with his white side. Actually he married a very nice white young lady, so I wonder how "they" would categorize any children they may have. This needs to stop putting labels on people, people are people.

I agree with you. They should describe him as the first mixed race president if they want, but why does someone automatcally become black because they have some black blood. It's crazy. It kind of smacks of racism to me. Most "blacks" in American have some white blood anyway. I guess if you have black features you are considered to be black, but I dont know why he is described as that.

Because some people are ignorant & don't take the time to know Obama, so they just half guess by looking at him on TV or in a picture that he is African American. It's ignorance. People like that should just be ignored. Who really knows, maybe they just don't know what to say. Some people can be really off on the things they say. I would just ignore it...

That is the problem with Obama. He does not embrace both sides of his background. Even though most of his upbringing was done by his white grandparents and his mom. He uses the white side of his background when it is good for politics.

I agree with you, but I also realize that there is a standard kind of thing to call biracial people who have both black and white heritage, black. I don't know why and I think it is racist, racist from blacks and whites. I think the idea is if you look black you are black and if you look white you are white. That's the problem with RACE!!!!!! It isn't like that. First of all we're all only humans. Second of all, obviously those stereotypes aren't true, since some biracial children look like one race or the other. My daughter is biracial, too. In fact, she is just like Obama, in that her mother (me) is white American, and her father is black African (Nigerian tho, not Kenyan). I agree with you completely that both sides of his heritage should be acknowledged, but I think as long as people are focusing on looks, it will not change, because he looks more black. I think Obama has acknowledged his white mother and grandparents in his love for them. However, I think in every other way, he embraces his black heritage more completely and it doesn't seem as if he considers himself half white, but considers himself a black man who just happens to have 3 white relatives, if you understand what I mean. I also think Obama has brought race purposely into this campaign, and that he does harbor some ill feelings towards white people. My daughter is 9, and she is autistic. She can't talk much, but has never seemed to notice color of people's skin, until recently, just this year. She suddenly started touching my arm and saying "white, Mommy white". She calls herself white, even tho she is not as white as I am. She calls her Daddy brown. She has always been allowed to choose her dolls, and she always seemed to choose them based on hair or clothing. So she has always had dolls that represent both races. She recently, however, began wanting to have two of the same baby dolls, one black and one white -- only she calls them brown baby and white baby. To her, race is not an issue. People are rainbows and she wants some of all the colors! Now I think THAT'S the way it should be.

i think people need to lay off Obama i keep seeing so much bad stuff about him but i think its because people are mad that they know hes gonna win. hes mixed and it doesn't matter what he is people shouldn't be classifying him anyways if he were white, black, mixed, chinese it shouldn't matter. but obviously it does and i think it is pathetic the stuff people will say and do just to try to get people to not vote for him. in my opinion hes a good candidate and i am pretty sure hes gonna win this election.

I think it is common among those who have part Negro (to use the old term)ethnicity who live in the United States. They think that by some miracle, all the Caucasian in them disappears. I suspect it is not about the so called slave owners premise that one smidgeon of Negro blood makes you all Negro, but about power. If you have one smidgeon of Negro in you and that makes you pure Negro, then that makes you have a larger percentage of people who claim to be African American and you have this larger power base. So the only Caucasians left are the ones who never went outside of their race and by intermarrying it decreases their numbers. So if ten percent are mixed race, and that ten percent has part Negro, and if twenty percent are pure black, then the percent now becomes thirty percent who can claim African American, etc.

i agree that his heritage should not matter. but to many ppl it does. sometimes more than what his political views are, which is a pathetic way to choose the next President! i would love to say that America today is beyond such petty points of view, but alas there are times when it certainly seems to dominate more than things that should be far far more important. someday after many years of such mixed heritage children marrying other mixed heritage children..they wont even ask what your heritage is..cause it would be so long of an answer. i can totally understand how filling out forms and having to mark "other" would be annoying. i wonder what would happen if everybody that was considered Caucasian started to mark that "other" and then fill it out from there. i would have to just write "heintz 57" LOL!