Posted on 11/30/2008 4:21:44 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
He is also half white.
Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black.
We call him that -- he calls himself that -- because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred. There's no in-between.
That was my reaction when I read these words on the front page of this newspaper the day after the election: "Obama Makes History: U.S. Decisively Elects First Black President."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If you are truly of Irish descent, you should ask for beer.
And not that crappy American beer either.
If you can’t call Africans as Africans because Africa is a continent, then what shall we call Asians from Asia which is a continent much bigger than Africa?
Then we have the South American-Americans. Or would they be South Americans squared?
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