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To: Free ThinkerNY
Who decided to call Obama black?

The same people who decided to call Tiger Woods black, despite the fact that he's 1/2 East Asian, 1/4 black, 1/8 American Indian, and 1/8 (white) Dutch.

Many American blacks consider anyone with even a small fraction of black ancestry black. ...except for those they don't like.

4 posted on 07/08/2008 5:04:00 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Tiger Woods has “class”.

Barack Obama has “class warfare”.

There is a big difference.

PS: Tiger’s late father was a highly decorated Green Beret in Vietnam.
Barack’s father was a communist from Kenya.

There is a big difference!


25 posted on 07/08/2008 6:25:44 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Tiger refuses to accept being called black, because he says “it means my mother doesn’t exist”.


35 posted on 07/08/2008 7:37:39 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Many American blacks consider anyone with even a small fraction of black ancestry black. ...except for those they don't like.

IE Ricans, Dominicans, and Afro-Brazilians.

41 posted on 07/08/2008 8:22:33 PM PDT by Clemenza (You Shoot Me in a Dream, You Better Wake Up and Apologize)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Many American blacks consider anyone with even a small fraction of black ancestry black. ...except for those they don't like.

When I lived in Virginia in the Sixties my best friend was one quarter Choctaw from Oklahoma. By the laws of the Commonwealth at the time, he was illegitimate being of mixed parentage.

Most if not all Southern states had the "one-sixteenth rule" that declared any person with more than one-sixteenth Negro or Indian parentage is considered "full Negro or full Indian." In our modern times the word Black is commonly accepted for Negro.

Obama presenting himself as Black can not in any fairness be held against him. It simply reflects a perception that is still commonly held by a great number of Americans.

This whole question is just inane falderal.

52 posted on 07/08/2008 11:07:43 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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