[zeestephen]

So a guy with a black father and white mother is “black?” If his father was white and his mother was black, would Obama be “white?”

By the way, many black African tribes were actively involved in the slave trade. I’d like to know if Obama’s African ancestors ever sold slaves.

[LWalk18]

So a guy with a black father and white mother is “black?” If his father was white and his mother was black, would Obama be “white?”

The one drop rule has always determined racial classification in this country. Anyone with any known black ancestry is black in this country, and prior to the Civil Rights Movement they were subject to the same Jim Crow law- Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld segregation was 1/8 black and 7/8 white.