Sure you are right, but we know what this election is going to come down too, people will have to decide once they get into that booth if they are ready for a Black President.
half black half white, or "biracial" president, please.
it is the only correct terminology.
Ignoring the fact that a huge part of his life, including his mother, and a whole side of his family that helped raise him are white, is ignorant, not to mention, totally incorrect...and i dare say, even racist.
Everyone considers him to be so intelligent, so charismatic, so committed, it is utterly pathetic that people then want to dismiss half of this person that helped to contribute to the making of this whole person, merely for the sake of race politics.
he is bi-racial, i.e. - half black, half white.
fact.
If he is elected president, he will not be the first black president. He will be the first half black, half white president. That is an achievement in and of itself.
For those who are so concerned with how people see him racially, why are those same people so determined to ignore that which helps make him what he is?
His white side is just as important as is black side in creating the man that many harbor such passion for. Seems silly to literally deny a whole part of him just because a certain segment of people wants to perpetuate an image, and not perpetuate a fact.
there is obviously, enough racism on both sides to make it an unpalatable choice to some.
some can't abide the thoughts of a "black" president
some can't abide the thoughts that their "black" hero is in fact, half white and just as much of what makes him great is due to him being white as well as black.
to say anything otherwise is racist. pure and simple. the definition of racist is "racially discriminatory"
to call him black, but not white, is discriminatory towards what he is. fact. it demeans, ignores, and demotes a part of him that is just as important as the black part.
he could never have existed, one without the other.
plain and simple.
He will become america's first biracial president if he is elected, not america's first black president.
there is absolutely no disputing that fact.