is Barak Obama white?

As you note, he is biracial - both black and white.

Culturally, "blackness" in this country largely comes down to appearances - if you "look black" then you're considered black even if you have half (or more) white ancestry. While we aren't at the point where we're differentiating among different darknesses of skin tone, there is still a sort of assumption that whiteness is pureness (or blankness, if you prefer) and that anything added to it - African, Asian, Hispanic, etc. - makes you that thing.

Say Obama never ran for President and was not well known. If you were walking down the street and saw him you wouldn't see a bi-racial man. In your mind you would say he was a black man. That's just the way it is in this country at this time.

And, Barack Hussein Obama is his 'legal' name. It is the name his parents named him at birth, it is the name that appears on his birth certificate. Barry was a 'nickname' his grandparents called him, one which he did use until his college years when he went back to his 'legal' name. Soetoro was the name of his step-father, and yes he was registered in Indonesia under the name of Barry Soetoro, but that still was not his legal name.

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it should. but if people went and said "oh vote for obama, he's going to be the 4?th white male president in a row" it sounds better to say that he's black.

He's partially white. The reason it sounds weird to say he's a white President is because he appears black.

Who cares arent you fed up with people playing the race card. He is a great man period end of story. If you were truly black you would think you would be totally bored with this question and say oh God he is a great President period.

Obama is a man( All Men Are Created Equal)

he is black because his skin is definately not white. Black does not mean he is fully american, it just means he is black.

But he is african/american BI-Racial

We can call him bi-racial, we can call him american and black

What we cannot really call him is African or White....

but then again he has visited Kenya many times and seen his family there so he is closely in touch with his african roots too

he's a great great man and such an inspiration

Bi-racial people can choose whichever race they want to be ,our President chooses African american

if you mix the equal amount of black paint and white paint, it will look pretty dark almost black. it takes more white paint to make it 50 percent grey.