[Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

[Strainu]

2010/11/18 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>:
> So for 200 years it's OK to classify anyone with a drop of African blood
> as "black" (and subject them to all forms of racism and discrimination),
> but once a 1/2 African is elected president, he can't be called "black"
> all the sudden?
>
> References:
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
>
> Ryan Kaldari

My mail was not about whether calling Obama black is OK or not OK.
What's OK in the US might not be OK in Europe and vice-versa. I've
made the point that different cultures have a different vision of
races and especially about people of mixed origin.

What is not OK from my POV is people finding offensive to call him
"almost black" or anything else than black, as Steven Walling
suggested, that I don't really understand. It seems to me like the
fact (anthropological fact, that is) is skewed to...what purpose
exactly? But again, this is a European's POV, perhaps in the States it
really is necessary to call Barack Obama black.

Strainu

>
> On 11/17/10 2:18 PM, Strainu wrote:
>> 2010/11/17<WJhonson at aol.com>:
>>
>>> In a message dated 11/17/2010 1:23:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>>> steven.walling at 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
>>
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