tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post666539729224597872..comments2023-10-28T03:07:12.758-07:00Comments on Mirror On America: Dear Confused White People, Malia and Sasha Obama are NOT 'bi-racial'.Brian http://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-40222809801410012532016-03-12T17:59:42.690-08:002016-03-12T17:59:42.690-08:00All blacks are multi racial. So he has a white mom...All blacks are multi racial. So he has a white mom big deal. He still is perceived as black. So who cares.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01213542171791454715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-65637848689922674112009-02-03T14:53:00.000-08:002009-02-03T14:53:00.000-08:00He IS Bi-racial. I was born of a white mother and...He IS Bi-racial. I was born of a white mother and a black father and I don't consider myself either black or white. Despite what "one drop rule" or other ignorant theories people come up with I am BOTH black AND white. So, being that Barack has a white parent and black parent, he is BI-RACIAL!J-Bigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15552731371933033698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-9716427841072316352009-01-28T05:28:00.000-08:002009-01-28T05:28:00.000-08:00He is Black....there I said it. Get real people. N...He is Black....there I said it. Get real people. No black person is totally black. I am dark with "good" hair and all my life had people ask me "what are you?"<BR/><BR/>My momma is darker than me with straight hair down her back and she NEVER claimed to be anything but black. <BR/><BR/>I think this is political-correctness to the 10th power and it's whack!<BR/><BR/>Get over it people - and like one of the other readers posted if he commited a crime he would be listed as B.L.A.C.K. duh!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-36216244151523663652009-01-27T20:39:00.000-08:002009-01-27T20:39:00.000-08:00I'm going to have to agree with AI on the surface....I'm going to have to agree with AI on the surface. Barack Obama is biracial if we really want to get down to the meet and potatoes. I just don't believe that he would have been where he is had he been a full-blooded black man. His biraciality made a difference whether or not that is a good thing.<BR/><BR/>I do believe it is a stretch to refer to Sasha and Malia as biracial. They may have some fairly recent white blood but once it gets to a certain percentage, does it really count? That is why I don't classify black Americans as multi-racial or even mixed. Why? I'm quite sure that there's a huge difference between my DNA and Halle Berry's. No need to call myself mixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-46624227302247126772009-01-27T05:33:00.000-08:002009-01-27T05:33:00.000-08:00Didn't know... Didn't catch that one.That's why I ...Didn't know... Didn't catch that one.<BR/><BR/>That's why I am reluctant to take you on.... because I never know what you have up your sleeve. lol<BR/><BR/>I should have known you had that part covered. <BR/><BR/>I still disagree with your overall point though. But love your spirit.Brian https://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-90747143715674401192009-01-27T05:17:00.000-08:002009-01-27T05:17:00.000-08:00If you're going to start declaring all Black peopl...<I>If you're going to start declaring all Black people who have some non-Black blood in them (and I think most Black people in America do, even if they're unaware of the exact mix, you don't see many pure Africans looking like Will Smith, if ya know what I mean), then you can't just site the good successful ones, that make you proud. Fight just as hard to declare the Biracial bums, too.</I><BR/><BR/>if they're trying to claim Black folks as 'their own', then they need to pretty much claim the entire Black community, which, due to 'mixing' has some WHITE blood in them. How else can we have rainbows in our own FAMILIES without us being mixed with someone else. <BR/><BR/> They don't want to acknowledge that nearly the entire Black community is 'mixed', if their definition is having ' White ancestors'.rikyrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982657053583534299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-8241802738691166302009-01-27T05:14:00.000-08:002009-01-27T05:14:00.000-08:00AI,the little girl is my great-niece. So, I guess ...AI,<BR/><BR/>the little girl is my great-niece. So, I guess I know how her parents are raising her.rikyrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982657053583534299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-6706942530156968172009-01-26T21:33:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:33:00.000-08:00Co-sign the whole blog! Especially the comment tha...Co-sign the whole blog! Especially the comment that "The Angry Independent" quoted above. I made that very point recently in Hiedi Durrow's blog (Light-skinned-ed Girl), when debating why the media refers to Pres. Obama as the First Black President instead of the First Biracial President.<BR/><BR/>One woman tried to argue with me, asking why White people can't "claim" (her word) Pres. Obama, too? And I pointed that if he were a drug-dealer or a serial killer, then he would definitely be "Black," and the Biracial crowd wouldn't be going out of their way to correct them. <BR/><BR/>Then I said that you don't see Whites or Biracials rushing to claim Louis Farrakahn, either. And she goes off on how Farrakahn is a horrible man (which I agree, he is) and that's exactly my point!<BR/><BR/>If you're going to start declaring all Black people who have some non-Black blood in them (and I think most Black people in America do, even if they're unaware of the exact mix, you don't see many pure Africans looking like Will Smith, if ya know what I mean), then you can't just site the good successful ones, that make you proud. Fight just as hard to declare the Biracial bums, too.J.R. LeMarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060796760117717968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-67794118920359494052009-01-26T21:02:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:02:00.000-08:00Excellent post! I think it all comes down to what ...Excellent post! I think it all comes down to what you said in the last paragraph: for too many people there is something wrong with being black. Why else all the word games?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-75012055139597508132009-01-26T18:56:00.000-08:002009-01-26T18:56:00.000-08:00Her mother is Black, Her father is Mexican. SHE is...<I>Her mother is Black, Her father is Mexican. SHE is bi-racial.<BR/>She will speak Spanish and English. She will grow up eating tamales and collard greens. She will learn how to make flan and sweet potato pie. She will grow up hearing tales of Mexico and the Jim Crow South. When she gets older, she will begin making the trips that her mother did to our family home in Mississippi, and go to the cemetary where her ancestors, beginning with her great-great-great grandfather, are buried. Her mother has already booked the room next year for homecoming at Tuskegee.</I><BR/><BR/>And how do you know this Rikyrah? <BR/>These are <B>gross generalizations</B> (at minimum). Which I try to avoid myself.<BR/><BR/>You are going off the cliff on this. :) Please take a deep breath.Brian https://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-89665414961769999522009-01-26T18:47:00.000-08:002009-01-26T18:47:00.000-08:00"When White folk claim bi-racial Pookie that just ...<I>"When White folk claim bi-racial Pookie that just robbed the store and shot a couple of people, I'll know it's about this ' bi-racial' category. Until then, it's about divorcing Obama from the Black community."</I><BR/><BR/>Sorry Rikyrah... I don't buy that.<BR/><BR/>Barack Obama IS Biracial. There is not much to discuss on that point. Whether he is perceived as such by American society due to the one drop rule is a different issue. Someone else's perception can't change the biological fact.<BR/><BR/>I am not sure I can buy the fact that his daughters can't be considered bi-racial either. Why can't they be?<BR/><BR/>They are still part White. Although... by most measures (mostly measures that society prescribes) they are viewed as Black.<BR/><BR/>They still have a White Grandmother (although she has passed) and they have white family on that family tree...only one generation removed.<BR/><BR/>I'd say they are multi-racial.<BR/><BR/>But it's up to the Obama's (and the daughters themselves) to decide how they want to identify. Not anyone else.<BR/><BR/>Why are Black folks so paranoid about this? Obama has you all losing your minds :)... Get a Black Prez...or a Prez of Color and you don't want to share.<BR/><BR/>If they want to identify as multi-racial, it does not diminish their impact and their role as the first Black Family in the White House or the first Family of Color. They still take up the role of the Huxtables..... in fact, they may end up being more important than the Huxtables when it comes to changing perceptions. That role won't be any different because of the fact that President Barack Obama is biracial.<BR/><BR/>Black folks should take a deep breath and relax on this issue... because it is being overplayed IMO.<BR/><BR/>I bet Barack and Michelle laugh about this nonsense in private... that Black folks are stressing over this.Brian https://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.com