its amazing that a bi-racial man has become president do u think a black man will ever be?

[KinksandCoils]

biracials (creoles) used to own slaves and not breed with dark skin blacks how do you think they got so lightskin

Clearly this wasn't the case for all or even many

 

[GreatestLaker]

Knowing this, would African Americans be considered "Black" to you?

Straight answer please.

People with a heavily mixed background like Vanessa Williams, Mariah Carey etc. No.

People that have predominantly African ancestry like Michael Jordan, Kobe, Michele Obama etc. Yes.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

When the average person thinks of a mulatto they think of this

 

[Zach Lowe]

If i didnt know who he was I would just assume he was a regular light skinned black dude.

Aren't most light skinned black dudes biracial... or is that term reserved for those with direct white ancestors

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Aren't most light skinned black dudes biracial... or is that term reserved for those with direct white ancestors

the typical biracial looks like this, totally different than will smith or ludacris.

 

[Poitier]

Aren't most light skinned black dudes biracial... or is that term reserved for those with direct white ancestors

No.

 

[I Lord Justice]

People with a heavily mixed background like Vanessa Williams, Mariah Carey etc. No.

People that have predominantly African ancestry like Michael Jordan, Kobe, Michele Obama etc. Yes.

So basically there's a black/mixed threshold? If so, who decides it?

 

[Poitier]

So basically there's a black/mixed threshold? If so, who decides it?

@MikeBrownsJob said if they have any immediate relatives that are non-Black then that's a adequate threshold. That would mean Obama is biracial and Beyonce is Black. Not the same thing like OP is stating.

 

[GreatestLaker]

the typical biracial looks like this, not like will smith or ludacris.

That's fukking bullshyt and you know it.

J.Cole, Drake etc look like that?

That dude's father was probably a mulatto and his mother was white.

 

[marcuz]

a black president will come in the way of a hermain cain type conservative

 

[marcuz]

the typical biracial looks like this, not like will smith or ludacris.

no that just shows how hard they were going to push half breeds on black folk, this dude would pass for white by todays standards

 

[GreatestLaker]

I just googled him.

He is 1/8th Black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Chesnutt

fukk outta here.

 

[Zach Lowe]

@spinoza @Poitier Just because someone like Will Smith has an all black family tree as far back as anyone knows doesn't mean he doesn't have significant white DNA

I do agree Obama does lean more towards black in looks than you'd expect for someone that's roughly half black half white

Edit: Actually he might be as close to 50-50 as it gets since his dad's African and his mom's a southern white person

 

[fscballin]

In America being mixed is apart of being black.

except some of us possess more of the original genetic phenotype (pure breeds) than others (mixed breeds)

 

[Poitier]

@spinoza @Poitier Just because someone like Will Smith has an all black family tree as far back as anyone knows doesn't mean he doesn't have significant white DNA

I do agree Obama does lean more towards black in looks than you'd expect for someone that's roughly half black half white

I never claimed he didn't. I have significant DNA of other races.They are a few generations back. I am Black.

I'm find if you make the distinction that Obama is mixed. I am not fine if you discredit someone like Will Smith and Beyonce by saying their mixed. It's dishonest. They're Black.