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Why is it so acceptable to call Barrack Obama black?

He has one black parent, and one white parent. He is no more black than he is white. When racism was legal, you could be considered black if you were 1/16. But now that isn't legal, or correct. Personally you can identify with any race you feel comfortable doing. But especially in government and national records, it should be politically incorrect.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It's not "politically incorrect" if you self-identify with who your parents are and how society treats you. It's only politically incorrect if you don't have anything to back you up. Remember Rachel Dolezal, the head of a black civil rights group who was ancestrally white as the driven snow? She would have been fine if she hadn't claimed to be black, but she also wouldn't have been put in a leadership position if she hadn't claimed that. That's the extreme case you can measure everything else against.

  • 5 years ago

    He identifies as Black. Remember that when you have a problem with Trans people going into the bathroom of their choice. What a person identifies as is what they are - period. Any Trans man going into a Women's bathroom has no sexual interest in women because ... guess what? ... they feel that they are women themselves.

    They need to teach Sex Education in the USA because everyone is so damned ignorant.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    He is from Kenya, and he is half black.

    So naturally, he is a black man.

    Neil Tyson is a black man as well, but he isn't 100% black.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    He ticks black on his forms in race section. Self identifies as black. Hates whites, plays race card every two seconds.

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  • 5 years ago

    Because Barack Obama has dark skin.

  • 5 years ago

    Racism is perfectly legal. Barak says he's black, so he's black.

  • Steve
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Given this, why do you think Republicans have treated him as they have? If he's white? Clearly, the RACISTS in the right-wing in this country LOST THEIR F-ING MINDS!!! Given this, Obama is black. Clearly.

  • 5 years ago

    This is only important to people that have a problem with race.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Just tell the truth; he is black in color.his wife is even blacker.

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