Why do people always describe the POTUS as half black? Why never half white?
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Maybe not an appropriate question for Alabamians?
Maybe not an appropriate question for Alabamians?
If you thought so... 18 minutes after your first brilliant post, there's a neat little function called "EDIT" that takes you to another called "DELETE" . There, you can remove idiotic thoughts that were put into text...once your brain is awake.
But then again...
Who refers to him as half black? I've never heard him referred to as half black or half white, always black. That's because if he and his toadies acknowledged his white side they couldn't drag out that race card every time someone spoke against him.
Maybe not an appropriate question for Alabamians?
If you thought so... 18 minutes after your first brilliant post, there's a neat little function called "EDIT" that takes you to another called "DELETE" . There, you can remove idiotic thoughts that were put into text...once your brain is awake.
But then again...
3 days and 18 minutes apart you worthless NITWIT. Ironically your dumb azz self had 18 hours to EDIT or DELETE your stupidity in text form before I seen it .
But then again..
you just proved what a special brand of idiot you are didn't you?
@ Bestworking - Do you and this guy agree?
Seems to me with this ½ Black President the Socialists think they can just throw the race card on the table for any reason or non-reason. For the life of me I can’t figure this one out.
Why does Halle Berry call herself...and her daughter...black? How the daughter will feel when grown may be a different matter. As for Barry/Barack, he was reared for the most part by a white mother and white grandparents. While we all go through a rebellious stage, most of us by age 25 assume our expected roles. Yet, Obama married a black woman, attended a black church, called himself black. Why? Perhaps if he had thought of himself as mainly white, he would never have entered politics.
Pretty simple really fire. If he called himself white or acknowledged his white side he would have lost the black vote and couldn't use the race card at every turn. THAT is what put him where he is, not his qualifications, which are zero.
Why does Halle Berry call herself...and her daughter...black? How the daughter will feel when grown may be a different matter. As for Barry/Barack, he was reared for the most part by a white mother and white grandparents. While we all go through a rebellious stage, most of us by age 25 assume our expected roles. Yet, Obama married a black woman, attended a black church, called himself black. Why? Perhaps if he had thought of himself as mainly white, he would never have entered politics.
Can you imagine him claiming to be "white"? If he did, you know you'd be the first to point out "he's not fully white."
Just follow the yellow brick road, and maybe you'll find someone to give you a brain.
As we used to say about BushIIe;
"He is a nice guy and can really clear some brush, and would make a fine POUTUS if he wasnt dumb as dirt".
WAIT!?... Obama is BLACK!?
Well ditto, if you really felt that way about Bush why didn't you upgrade?? LOL!
Why does Halle Berry call herself...and her daughter...black? How the daughter will feel when grown may be a different matter.
Halle Berry Cites 'One-Drop' Rule in Battle Over Whether Her Daughter Is Black or White
Berry, 44, is the daughter of a white mother, who was a psychiatric nurse, and a black father, who was a hospital attendant in the same ward. Aubry is French-Canadian and white.
"I feel she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory," Berry said in an interview with Ebony magazine.
The "one-drop" rule refers to Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the 20th century to further disenfranchise African Americans.
It varied from state to state, but generally, if a person had "one drop" of black blood, they were forbidden to pass as white.
Another account of bi-racial children:
Dionne Ford, a writer from Montclair, N.J., is black and her husband is white. Their two daughters, 11 and 9, consider themselves biracial.
One of her daughters struggled with her racial identity when she was younger. "She decided she was white, but black in the inside," said Ford.
She described how she felt about her daughter's ambivalence in an essay, "Black on the Inside," that was published in Brain Child magazine.
"It was tough," said Ford. "I wanted her to identify with me, but I still had to respect her."
"With her butterscotch skin and thick copper-colored curls, it's easy to see that white is only half the story," wrote Ford.
Biracial Daughter Insisted She Was White
Ford, 41, said she tried to answer her daughter's questions honestly. "I did tell her she was not just white, that she would always be both black and white. But I never told her she had to choose one or the other." Today, her daughter has embraced her black roots.
"There was so much intermixing going on that it got to the point where it was easy for people who didn't have much black blood to pass as white," said Ford. That was the case with her grandfather, who "looked totally like a white man."
Linda Tropp, associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts with a specialty in prejudice and group relations, recognizes that African-Americans still struggle with race, but that one day it might change.
At one time during the 20th century, the Irish were considered the "missing link" between apes and humans, a attitude that was described in the book, "How the Irish Became White," said Tropp.
Italians and Jewish Americans faced similar attitudes.
"In the future, when we become more a multiethnic and multifaceted society, there might not be a term white -- or it won't mean the same thing as it does now."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/h...te/story?id=12869789
These children have the same white mom and black dad:
Why does Halle Berry call herself...and her daughter...black? How the daughter will feel when grown may be a different matter.
Halle Berry Cites 'One-Drop' Rule in Battle Over Whether Her Daughter Is Black or White
Berry, 44, is the daughter of a white mother, who was a psychiatric nurse, and a black father, who was a hospital attendant in the same ward. Aubry is French-Canadian and white.
"I feel she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory," Berry said in an interview with Ebony magazine.
The "one-drop" rule refers to Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the 20th century to further disenfranchise African Americans.
It varied from state to state, but generally, if a person had "one drop" of black blood, they were forbidden to pass as white.
Another account of bi-racial children:
Dionne Ford, a writer from Montclair, N.J., is black and her husband is white. Their two daughters, 11 and 9, consider themselves biracial.
One of her daughters struggled with her racial identity when she was younger. "She decided she was white, but black in the inside," said Ford.
She described how she felt about her daughter's ambivalence in an essay, "Black on the Inside," that was published in Brain Child magazine.
"It was tough," said Ford. "I wanted her to identify with me, but I still had to respect her."
"With her butterscotch skin and thick copper-colored curls, it's easy to see that white is only half the story," wrote Ford.
Biracial Daughter Insisted She Was White
Ford, 41, said she tried to answer her daughter's questions honestly. "I did tell her she was not just white, that she would always be both black and white. But I never told her she had to choose one or the other." Today, her daughter has embraced her black roots.
"There was so much intermixing going on that it got to the point where it was easy for people who didn't have much black blood to pass as white," said Ford. That was the case with her grandfather, who "looked totally like a white man."
Linda Tropp, associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts with a specialty in prejudice and group relations, recognizes that African-Americans still struggle with race, but that one day it might change.
At one time during the 20th century, the Irish were considered the "missing link" between apes and humans, a attitude that was described in the book, "How the Irish Became White," said Tropp.
Italians and Jewish Americans faced similar attitudes.
"In the future, when we become more a multiethnic and multifaceted society, there might not be a term white -- or it won't mean the same thing as it does now."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/h...te/story?id=12869789
These children have the same white mom and black dad:
I used the example of Halle Berry specifically because her affirmation of her daughter's blackness caused quite a stir. Her intention was, in all probability, to bolster her case for custody of the child, yet Halle herself was reared by a white mother.
The question of race is touchy and goes back centuries as states defined race. If, 1/24th black, in Virginia you were white. In Alabama, one drop of black blood made you black. Then, there were the terms -- mulatto, quadroon and octaroon -- French words.
Well ditto, if you really felt that way about Bush why didn't you upgrade?? LOL!
Done!
That was definitely an upgrade.
Who's wearing the hat now?
LOL!! No wonder the country is in such sad shape if that's considered an upgrade. I sure hope you guys don't try to upgrade again, the country can't take it.
LOL!! No wonder the country is in such sad shape if that's considered an upgrade. I sure hope you guys don't try to upgrade again, the country can't take it.
Only leftist twits consider The One™ to be an upgrade... BEST case scenario he is a slightly reverse lateral swap to the left...