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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (51035)3/1/2008 1:48:05 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 543772
 
>>I don't have a clue when or how he chose to be black but he clearly chose that. You can tell by the woman he married and the church he joined. Both are emphatically black. He may not be immersed in his racial identity like so many, but it seems clear to me that he made that choice.<<

Karen -

I don't think Obama ever had a choice to make. His skin is fairly dark, and his hair is curly. In this country, he would most likely be seen as black by just about everyone, whether they knew of his parentage or not.

Ask any person who has one black parent and one white parent, and he or she will tell you that there is no choice involved. Black people will accept mixed-race people as black, but white people will not accept them as white.

Note that nobody has ever said that Tiger Woods was the first asian golfer to win this or that tournament. That has nothing to do with any choice Tiger made.

- Allen
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