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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is one Black by race and African American by ethnicity? Then Obama is mixed race by ethnicity and race not AA. However, all Black people including non-AA are considered AA in the press if they are Black, AA, or biracial if they look black. It is the way society references those who appear black by skin tone. 
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It seems the only determining factor in whether you are black or AA is whether you are descended from slaves.  I completely disagree, as does most of America, but that doesn't seem to matter.[/quote]

Correction, not just slaves, but slaves who came directly (no stops along the way) from the African continent to the USA.   Sorry Colin Powell, same for Harry Bellafonte, Alicia Keys, Patrick Ewing, Stokely Carmichael, Shirley Chisholm, Ursula Burns, Malcolm X, Busta Rhymes and Biggie Smalls.   Malcolm X's mother is from Genada so he is also iffy.[/quote]

Yeah, but they are still black. All of these different labels don't matter. The world see us as blacks, so we are still a community.[/quote]

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