Posted on 11/24/2010 7:41:01 PM PST by fightinJAG
Why is President Barack Obama — the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya — considered a black man?
While historic, social, political and more sinister factors almost certainly influence the prevailing view of the president’s race, a new study co-authored by a University of California, Davis, researcher has found that a basic learning pattern also is involved.
People learn about new things — such as diseases, dogs or cars — by noting attributes that distinguish them from the same types of things that they already know, past research has shown.
The new study by UC Davis psychology professor Jeffrey Sherman and two colleagues demonstrated for the first time that the same basic learning pattern also applies when people place others into ethnic categories based on facial characteristics.
“Features that are more typical of minority group members draw more attention,” Sherman explained. “So, when someone has a mixture of features, the minority features are the ones that we tend to grab onto. We pay more attention to them and they are used more heavily in our judgments. They influence us to a greater degree.”
Why is President Barack Obama — the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya — considered a black man?
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Oh, that’s easy: He knows how to talk Ebonics when he’s in Selma!
He’s 50% Irish, I guess they flipped a coin.
He associated with blacks, went to a black church, and in his books he said he considers himself black. This is not rocket science.
I consider Obama not as a black man but an incompetent moron of the highest pedigree.
IS THIS GUY being PAID to figure this out?????
He’s not a black man. It’s worse than that, but we can’t say the word.
Whatever Obama is, he is not one of us. He is a stranger in our land.
Whatever Obama is, he is not one of us. He is a stranger in our land.
NOBAMA 2012 has self-defined himself as part of the black or African American community.everything he does has a racial component.
How much did this study cost?
For the same reason the Washington Monument is considered to be a space rocket : strictly a function of asking a study group selected to produce a desired outcome.
Obumbuster is bisexual and multiracial.
Being paid with our tax dollars.
Obama is liberalism incarnate. He is not black or white but rather colored in shades of gray.
Obumbuster is bisexual and multiracial.
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I concur!
Obamolester is a “man”? Really? Do you have any proof of that? It’ll be a first...that being “proof” of any kind.
I don’t give a stupid Kennedy about his race.
I do give a lot of care about the fact that he is a witless incompetent boob.
I think it's because someone in the media may have mentioned that he's black. I seem to recall hearing something about that once or twice.
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