June 10, 2008

Why Obama is Black, not White – Great Kenyan article on something that's been niggling me for a while. Obama is 50% white / 50% black, so why is he always called a black man?

3 Comments on “Why Obama is Black, not White”


  1. 1 dp

    I’m not sure who’s doing the calling: is it the US media; the UK; the rest of the world; US blacks; Africans; …? What makes Obama ‘black’ is partly a pervasive labelling that isn’t about skin tone or ancestry, but about being slightly different to every president so far. But it is also about signalling to the wider population that it’s now okay to be slightly different. IN that regard, ‘black’ could equally be Catholic, Mormon, female, Hispanic, ….

  2. 2 brendadada

    No, it’s because he’s got very dark skin.

  3. 3 Russ L

    He self-identifies as black, doesn’t he?

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