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Is Barack Obama white?

Is Barack Obama white?


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Since we have to have polls about everybody else's race....
 
Of course he's white. Do you really think they would let a black person be president? :lamo
 
The truth is out there.


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Obama is 50% white and 50% black.
Except he was raised 100% white.

It would seem to me, this makes him more white than black.
 
Whatever his colour is I am proud of him cuz he ruled the hell out of you guys for almost 8 years.
 
Since we have to have polls about everybody else's race....

If he is White, there must have been an other in the woodpile.
 
Obama is 50% white and 50% black.
Except he was raised 100% white.

It would seem to me, this makes him more white than black.

But... he evidently has always self identified as "black". For me that, in conjunction with his 50% black ethnic back ground, makes Obama black.
 
Of course he's white. Do you really think they would let a black person be president? :lamo

I think the fact that he is light skinned helped him a lot. But he identifies as a Black man. Probably because his Mom saw him as Black.
 
I voted for bacon souffle. Now gimme my bacon souffle!
 
I don't know-can he dunk?:mrgreen:
 
Well Morgan Freeman said Obama wasn't black so that's good enough for me
 
He's half white. The good half of course.

Geeeeeeezus...

How about we just call him a white African? Or...not worry about the whole race thing altogether.
 
Obama is 50% white and 50% black.
Except he was raised 100% white.

It would seem to me, this makes him more white than black.

I have posed the question to my congressman on what the criteria is for being considered black. The congreesman's aid called me at work but she really didn't have an answer and claimed that she could tell by looking at me whether I was black or not. Apparently there is no device that measures skin pigmentation to determine race. It surely must be determined by some other method.

When in an English class my teacher told me that your race is the same as the race indicated on your mother's birth certificate. This method makes more sense to me than the non answer that states, "I can tell by looking at you." When race classification began there were no DNA test to determine who the father was. The race of the father is understandably a non-factor.

Barrack Obama is white unless someone wants to give me a lesson on how we determine what someone's race is. The mother's birth certificate seems like the only universal method to use since race classification is so dad gum important.
 
I have posed the question to my congressman on what the criteria is for being considered black. The congreesman's aid called me at work but she really didn't have an answer and claimed that she could tell by looking at me whether I was black or not. Apparently there is no device that measures skin pigmentation to determine race. It surely must be determined by some other method.

When in an English class my teacher told me that your race is the same as the race indicated on your mother's birth certificate. This method makes more sense to me than the non answer that states, "I can tell by looking at you." When race classification began there were no DNA test to determine who the father was. The race of the father is understandably a non-factor.

Barrack Obama is white unless someone wants to give me a lesson on how we determine what someone's race is. The mother's birth certificate seems like the only universal method to use since race classification is so dad gum important.

If Obama was considered white, he'd never been accepted into columbia or Harvard Law
 
If Obama was considered white, he'd never been accepted into columbia or Harvard Law

What method did Harvard use to determine race? Is there a skin pigmentation measuring device? Can a person claim to be any race that is advantageous to them?

Maybe the US government can start using the same method that Harvard uses.
 
What method did Harvard use to determine race? Is there a skin pigmentation measuring device? Can a person claim to be any race that is advantageous to them?

Maybe the US government can start using the same method that Harvard uses.

when You apply to Harvard Law or any other major law school (which I did fairly successfully) they ask your race

there is a case of a famous black professor who was accepted at harvard I believe and not yale, he called Yale and when he told them he was black, they then sent him an acceptance letter (he still went to the other school and I might have the two law schools reversed)
 
when You apply to Harvard Law or any other major law school (which I did fairly successfully) they ask your race

But how do you know the correct answer? Can't you just use the most advantageous answer?
 
there is a case of a famous black professor who was accepted at harvard I believe and not yale, he called Yale and when he told them he was black, they then sent him an acceptance letter (he still went to the other school and I might have the two law schools reversed)

Can a white guy call himself black under these same circumstances?
 
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