I can understand some people's desire for a black president but why vote for an African?
If any candidate isn't 100% American,they ought not get one vote!Down with hyphenated citizenship.
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming "America's first African-American president" ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro - a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama's great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator's ethnic composition.).
That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.
from:
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html