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(I get annoyed when people cite Obama as being a black president! How about Grey? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7735503.stm http

• r00fus 13y ago
  Not my terminology [1] [2]. Black is a culture in the US as well as ethnicity. Barack Obama identifies himself primarily as an African American/Black as does most of the nation. Don't see what's wrong. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
• Mikeb85 13y ago
  That's what society sees him as. And what society thinks goes to a certain degree, because if society was advanced enough to see him otherwise, we wouldn't talk about ethnicity in general. One of my favourite quotes, from a friend of mine (though I'm sure many others have said it), "We're all beige" In the end, everyone is mixed, everyone is human.