[raybbr]

Why doesn’t Obama call himself white? Why do all half-black/half-white people call themselves black and not white?

[manc]

well according to the media/MTV, teachers in some cases, some parents it’s cool to be black not white

see even though there is a bigger % of blacks doing crime, doing drug dealing, going to prison, in black areas it’;s a slum because of how they treat their area

it’s still cool to be black

[Wurlitzer]

"Why doesn’t Obama call himself white? Why do all half-black/half-white people call themselves black and not white?"

Because if he called himself a white man he could not claim victim status.

[fightinJAG]

I also wonder that. To me it smacks of the racist addage that “one drop of ‘black’ blood makes on black.”

Race is increasingly becoming a purely social construct.