Why does Obama identify as black?

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Why does Obama identify as black?
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+ Six Trails	Aug 26 2017, 07:00 PM Post #1
Posts: 1,570 Group: Elite Member Member #11,764 Joined: October 23, 2014 Gender Not Specified Country United States	Not sure how "deep" this discussion would be considered, so mods feel free to move this thread if you find it necessary. Besides being half-white from his mother's side, Obama has said that his dad was barely a factor in his life and that his mother and maternal grandmother are the ones who sacrificed a lot to give him the best life they could. So why does Obama identify as primarily black?



+ Ginyu	Aug 26 2017, 07:26 PM Post #2
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Dankness Lava	Aug 26 2017, 07:30 PM Post #3
Dankness Forever Posts: 6,348 Group: Tha Dankness Member #9,197 Joined: March 16, 2013 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime Hajime no Ippo What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga One Piece	Maybe because he takes pride in being of a minority race here in America?



ThisIsMyDebatingFace	Aug 26 2017, 08:37 PM Post #4
Posts: 10 Group: New Member Member #14,026 Joined: August 24, 2017 Gender Female Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Brexit: The Movie What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Brexit: The Visual Novel	I don't think he identifies as black, that's a very strange way of putting it. Personally, I don't put much weight into race or colour, but some people do. You can't call him white because he's not, he has colour to his skin, well we all do, but his is a darker colour and that is why people say he is black.



Goddess Ultimecia	Aug 26 2017, 11:22 PM Post #5
Posts: 10,145 Group: RP Moderator Member #8,473 Joined: October 26, 2012 Gender Male Country None	America has a sort of one-drop policy in the way they view race. That's mostly why. That and regardless of his status of mixed, he was going to be referred to as black due to him visually being black.
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Tinny	Aug 26 2017, 11:51 PM Post #6
Posts: 6,060 Group: Super Moderator Member #12,355 Joined: May 24, 2015 Gender Not Specified Favourite Anime Silver Spoon, Fate/Zero, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Space Patrol Luluco, Psycho-pass, Miss Kobayashi What Browser do you use? Chrome, Edge Favourite Manga Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~	Yeah, it's fairly different from latin America, in America even a single drop of blood makes you totally black. This was both done to suppress the black vote and to bolster numbers for the civil rights (more people will fight for black rights if more people are seen as black). As such someone that's half black or even just a quarter black is "black" even if the rest is white.
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+ Son-Goku	Aug 27 2017, 03:50 AM Post #7
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+ Green	Aug 27 2017, 06:36 AM Post #8
Flashy Thing! Posts: 5,436 Group: Legend Member #1,181 Joined: February 25, 2006 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Fire fox Favourite Manga Gantz	Goddess Ultimecia Aug 26 2017, 11:22 PM America has a sort of one-drop policy in the way they view race. That's mostly why. That and regardless of his status of mixed, he was going to be referred to as black due to him visually being black. Correct, our History of racism involved this thing called the "One-drop rule" where all it took was "one drop" (any confirmed connection) of African blood to be considered African American/Black. It was never an official law (to my knowledge) but widely practice and continues to this day (old habits die hard). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule Edited by Green, Aug 27 2017, 06:38 AM.
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~~Doggo Champion 2k17~~	Aug 27 2017, 04:35 PM Post #9
Posts: 7,931 Group: GTFO Member #6,380 Joined: June 20, 2011 Country United States Favourite Anime here comes What Browser do you use? o shit waddup! Favourite Manga dat boi	Because how would you know that he was half-white unless he told you? On the flip side, if a mixed person looked predominately white, how would you know that they were half-black unless they told you? I don't think this plays into racism at all tbh. I find it strange when a predominately white-looking person identifies as black when they don't visually pass as black. Not that it's wrong or anything; it's just odd. Edited by Doggo Champion 2k17, Aug 27 2017, 04:38 PM.



* Mitas	Aug 27 2017, 05:13 PM Post #10
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	What else can he identify as? Whether his father was an important figure in his life or not is beside the point; his skin is black, so he is black (or rather, what is generally classed as black, even if it's not specifically black).
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