[giotto]

Obama is not black, he is brown

Or maybe burnt sienna, or raw umber. What difference does it make what precise shade he is? The fact is that strangers perceive him as "not white." He grew up with that and knows what it feels like to be treated like a black person. I'm not saying that he's not capitalizing on his skin color. I'm just saying that in terms of his life experience, he's a black man.

[Polybius]

He grew up with that and knows what it feels like to be treated like a black person. I'm not saying that he's not capitalizing on his skin color. I'm just saying that in terms of his life experience, he's a black man.

Growing up in Hawaii, he was a "Haole" just like his mother.

[SampleMan]

Or maybe burnt sienna, or raw umber. What difference does it make what precise shade he is? The fact is that strangers perceive him as "not white." He grew up with that and knows what it feels like to be treated like a black person. I'm not saying that he's not capitalizing on his skin color. I'm just saying that in terms of his life experience, he's a black man.

Could you please provide the pigmentation pallet that qualifies someone as "black"? Or is it all in the perception of the person? And what is it to be "treated like a black person"? What does that mean? How does someone know that they are being treated a certain way due to something in particular?

This victimology crap has got to stop.