My, oh my. These Republican will do anything to make sure we don't get a black president.

[The Backlash Cometh]

I am being a bit snarky. No indication that Republicans are leading the new racial identity confusion. But, it just seems that once a person gets comfortable with his identify, there's some movement to churn things up to confuse them again.

AP: Many insisting Obama not black

A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black.

Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial — or, in Obama's own words, a "mutt" — has reached a crescendo since Obama's election shattered assumptions about race.

Obama has said, "I identify as African-American — that's how I'm treated and that's how I'm viewed. I'm proud of it." In other words, the world gave Obama no choice but to be black, and he was happy to oblige.

But the world has changed since the young Obama found his place in it.

Intermarriage and the decline of racism are dissolving ancient definitions. The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AP_Many_insisting_Obama_not_black_1214.html

[jwirr]

1. He is what he identifies himself as - Black. I have multi-racial family

members and it all comes down to the fact that we are human.

[opihimoimoi]

2. I am a Chinese/Peruvian/Spanish MUTT.....OBAMA is also a MUTT

The MUTT Factor is climbing Faster than a speeding jet fighter...

Get used to it America....The Mutts are here to Stay

[mondo joe]

3. As far as I can tell, "Black" is not an ethnicity but an appearance.

There's certainly an ethnic overlap, but it's a social construct.

[Frustratedlady]

4. I swear their heads are going to explode when they see the Obama family in the WH.

Shame on the bigots among them. I know some of those bigots personally and can hardly bear to look at them anymore.

After all the years of friendship, I never truly knew them.

[Cheap_Trick]

5. This is just the bargaining phase....

"Okay, Obama is going to be President, but he's NOT black...."

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. LOL! Exactly. They're in denial.

[Cheap_Trick]

9. I don't think the little fuckwads will ever get to ACCEPTANCE.

But I don't give a shit either.

[MineralMan]

6. Let's figure this out...

The answer to the question is another question: Would President-elect Obama have been able to drink from the white-only drinking fountain in Alabama in 1955? No? Then he's black.

[judasdisney]

10. Bingo

[Political Heretic]

8. You are as you indentify

[onethatcares]

11. I am a

Polish/chech/American that really thinks of himself as, "Dave".

Why is it we can watch kids play without any sense of color?