I know everyone is tired of hearing about this election but I was asked a question by my Mother (who is also an Obama supporter) and thought I would get everyones view here.....

I know this election isn't about race and it certainly doesn't matter to me what color anyones skin is.

Why is Obama being called our first black president instead of our first bi-racial president?

Great point.

according to the census bureau if you are bi racial your black

Don't think for a moment that race didn't play a part in the elections.

Why he's being called our first black president? I have no idea.

The funny thing is he was raised by white folk

hmmmm, i'm black too then!!! cool!

Cuz he's hella closer to black than anyone who has been elected has ever been before, and that does mean something -- especially in our very large black communities.

(Edited cuz I can't spell "elected" )

It has just been recently that the term bi-racial is being used to describe ethnicity - if you were "mixed" in the past, the only category open to you was considered "other." Although your point is valid.. I would think being considered black is better than being considered "other."

Hi Brandy Nicole,
To answer your question, the majority of people just identify him as an African-American.


Jon

I wish i was other sometimes

CORRECT ANSWER:

If a person is bi racial,then according to the U.S. government,then that person is black.

Great... another government agency telling us who we are and what we should call ourselves.

Other than... what?

Your question is a good one. After all he is half white and half black.

I had an interesting question on a survey I took today. It said, "What race do you most identify with?"

We have many more mixed race people here in the U.S. than we did fifty years ago coming from a variety of backgrounds. I am sure if you asked those people which race they identified with most you would get a variety of answers.

There are also many children who have been adopted from over seas who will not know or experience their biological parents culture or backgrounds and are being raised with parents of a different race.

What does race mean to people who come from those sorts of backgrounds?

Does physical appearance alone determine races?

Id so physically lining him up with all our past presidents he does appear different in terms of race. Maybe that's why?

so if they are white and mexican are they bi racial? that wouldnt make them black

just being silly

now I'm curious, wasn't Andrew Jackson bi-racial, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge also bi-racial?

I can field that one. My ex husband is half white, half Mexican. He's officially Mexican to the census.

Apparently white is like vanilla... if anything else is in it, it's not white anymore.

Lynann, LOVE it!!!! Bravo! I don't know... I think in years to come we're gonna have a harder and harder time classifying anyone under one huge umbrella.

Hell, we're American right? That'll work for me!