Reply #20: for better or worse in this country, if you have one black parent, you are considered black [View All]

[nomorewhopper]

walking down the streets of harlem when he was a student at nyu, the people who saw him, made judgements about him - he was always seen as black. his experience growing up was definitely the experience of a black man.

obama gets props from me for transcending race, and indeed his half white heritage, his half black/half asian sister, married to a chinese canadian.

to me, this guy isn't black. he isn't white.

he's america.