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

[b]The rationale of racists who just can't believe a black man is POTUS.[/b] He identifies as black and will go down in the history books as the first black president. Get over it. [/quote]
Not true.
I'm biracial and I agree with 1st PP. The fact that POTUS IDs publicly with the AA community doesn't change the fact that his mother was white, as were the grandparents who raised him.[/quote]

Who's trying to change that fact? This is about his self-identification. And biracial children can "choose a side", if they desire. What I find to be interesting is that some white folks seem amazed that, given the choice, some biracial folks choose "black". [/quote]
Honestly, I believe his "choice" had to do with the fact that he wouldn't have had the AA vote otherwise. I read his bio and don't remember any black influences in his upbringing before he went to college. And then - for a man back then it would have been social suicide to attempt to befriend black colleagues as a self-identified biracial person.[/quote]

Wrong. Historically, black people have always accepted biracial people as their own. The idea that we are somehow new to the concept of a biracial person (given our history in the US and how we all have "white in our family" somewhere) is laughable. WHITES are the ones who have historically shunned biracial people. Don't try to flip the switch and pretend you have always been the enlightened and accepting ones. [/quote]

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