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mu⋅lat⋅to  /məˈlætoʊ, -ˈlɑtoʊ, myu-/ Pronunciation [muh-lat-oh, -lah-toh, myoo-] –noun 1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent: not in technical use.
2. a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian.
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I keep hearing people say that Obama is black. Obama is a Mulatto or bi-racial. He's not black. How do I know this? Well, my father is married to a mulatto woman (step-mother) and my oldest brother is married to a black woman.
My oldest brother is blonde and
my brother's wife is all black, black mother and black father. Like the First Lady is all black. I have sisters who are half-black and I'm white because both of my parents were white. I also have one great-grandfather who was mulatto. When people say that some are racist against Obama because he's black, that's not quite correct. If a person is white and has racial tendencies against Obama, that's stupid because he's 50% white and 50% black. If we go by the definition given above. Obama has a white mother and a black father. That makes him a Mulatto or Bi-Racial.

Racism sucks anyway.

Obama is America's first Mulatto or Bi-Racial President despite what the media wants people to believe.

What do you think?

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  1. Agit8r
    He is African American, or black. Most African Americans have some white ancestry. The average is 20 to 30 percent. You find these things out if you watch Henry Louis "Skip" Gates documentaries
  2. anticsrocks
    I thought he was an American.
  3. polybore
    All of our ancestors were African so it is a moot point really.
  4. clioandme
    In earlier, much more racist times, people made these distinctions. I don't see how they're relevant now.
  5. Agit8r
    The study of DNA is very revealing of how "mixed" we all really are
  6. caspergirl35
    They continue to be relevent as anytime someone says something against Obama the race card is used. And as stated above...Obama is white also, so race cannot play into this. I don't care what color he is..I just want him to stop screwing up the US and do something that will help.
    1. csiunatc
      "I just want him to stop screwing up the US and do something that will help."

      bingo
    2. anticsrocks
      Nice avatar, casper!

      To understand why those who oppose Obama are called racist you must first understand that the liberals play the race card very often. It is like their first line of defense.

      It is odd though, I remember a lot of folks on the right being against Clinton (both of them), but they weren't called racist. And as history shows, practically then entire country was disgusted with Carter, but no one was called a racist then. Only now that we oppose El Presidente are we labeled that.

      Hmmm, I wonder - were these people being racists? After all they were opposing a President that was of a different race than them. Maybe ABC should ask Jimmy Carter.

      "NAACP Opposes Bush's 2009 Budget Proposal"

      www.naacp.org/get-involved/activism/alerts/110thaa-2008-03-11/index.htm
    3. clioandme
      Nice turnaround, antics. Take a thread about what to call the president and turn it into an attack on liberals.
  7. caspergirl35
    Excellent point...however you know they would have just turned it around..being the naacp had anyone said anything against them being racist. The pot calling the kettle black...theory.
    I always wondered was it was...as a side note. that African Americans run around calling each other the "N' word and that is acceptable, but don't dare let a "white" person say this.
    1. anticsrocks
      I cannot stand the "N" word at all. It is not allowed in my house, certainly not by my teenagers, but also not by any guests who are here. It is a loathsome, obscene word. And since you bring it up, I cannot stand the asinine argument that some bigots use for justification of using it - "Well you can be black or white and be a "N-word." Stupid.
    2. csiunatc
      Well the N words is very fitting on Obama,

      If by N word you mean Nincompoop of course
    3. clioandme
      @caspergirl35 There are plenty of people in the African American community who feel the N word is inappropriate too. To my mind, the word is still out there, though, for two reasons. One, some have internalized negative racial stereotypes, or had at one point, even if they don't think in such terms themselves. Another reason can be for shock value. I'm sure there are others too. But know that the "N" word is off limits for a huge segment of the African American community too.

      Not sure if any of this is relevant to the OP, though, but okay, gotta talk about what's on your mind, I guess.

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