Obama Checks "Black" On His Census Form

[Louis VI the Fat]

Race war surley to ensue

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rc=nl_opinions

If there ever was a more non issue.

Obama has been slated by a black man his whole life, the mother from Kansas makes a nice story but we all know how (blacks and whites) saw him as. Let's not kid ourselves.

Hmm...I kinda tend to agree with that article. It is a pity for people of mixed-race if Obama should not present himself as such.

Blacks do have an identity, whatever else may be written about this identity. Mixed-race is more complicated. There are all sorts of questions of belonging attached to it. Even if a mixed-race person herself does not want to chose a single heritage, there are lots of social pressures to chose one or the other. Often depending on whom they are dealing with.
In the case of Obama, one drop of blood seems to force him into chosing Black.