2010/11/17 WJhonson@aol.com:
In a message dated 11/17/2010 1:23:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, steven.walling@gmail.com writes:
Also, point of quibbling as an American: not looking to argue about it, but Obama is generally thought of as African American, as it says in the second sentence of his en.wiki article. It might offend people if you try and say our President isn't black. >>
Obama is exactly half-black and half-white. Funny how he is "African American" but of course he is equally "Caucasian American"
Which shows only hot dangerous "political correctness" can get. I wonder if in 2050, when the white population will no longer be be in majority, such a person will be called an European-American...
For those of you who speak other languages than English, I suggest reading the English, French, Spanish, Italian and/or German versions of en:Mulatto. You will get an extraordinary glimpse of what different groups consider relevant about this subject - the French have an interesting comparison of the term in several languages.
I suppose it's intellectually dishonest to claim that "most American blacks are part white", since it's possibly also true that "most American whites are part black"
Citation needed?:P
Strainu