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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]POTUS is black and white, not just black.[/quote]

The rationale of racists who just can't believe a black man is POTUS. He identifies as black and will go down in the history books as the first black president. Get over it. [/quote]

He probably would not have become POTUS if not for his unique family and upbringing, including the fact that he is white.[/quote]

You have no way of knowing that and to presume otherwise is idiocy. BUT, it's good to know that white people now embrace biracial folks as white. Look how far we've come![/quote]

Puhleese. You know he benefited from being biracial. And he is the type of black whites love because he is the child of a black African, not the child of a black African American.[/quote]

How did he benefit from being biracial? Just curious what your thoughts are on this. [/quote]

He benefited from being cared and provided for by a white family without having the influence of family members who are descendants of slaves and that legacy. And given the time he went to school and graduated, he was probably also the beneficiary of affirmative action to increase diversity in schools and work.[/quote]

Wow...your POV is incredibly racist. If anything, he benefitted from growing up in a state where racism was not largely present (because whites were not a large percentage of the population). Your assumption that blacks poison the minds of their children and that somehow that is the problem and not actual racism is incredibly insulting.

Ivy league schools are not in the business of handing out acceptances and/or accolades on the basis of race alone. The idea that you think affirmative action, and not intellectual prowess, is the reason is even more insulting.

And I guess you know that affirmative action benefits white women the most, right? Right?[/quote]

Did not mean that blacks poison the minds of their children. Just that your upbringing and environment greatly influences who you are. So, yes, if you experience growing up around older family members who knew former slaves, lived through segregation and lived a lifetime of discrimination and inequality, your outlook and expectations would be very different than someone who did not experience that.

And as for affirmative action, in today's world where more blacks are going to college and there is more competition than when he went to school and graduated, he might have not gone to Ivy League schools or ended up summering at BigLaw despite his intelligence.[/quote]

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