USA Presidential Race

[William T Goodall]

On 10 Jun 2008, at 04:10, Wayne Eddy wrote:
>
> I am curious why Obama is being categorised as black?
> Given that his father was black and his mother is white, surely he  
> is brown,
> or more to the point a person or an American?
>
> If he had three grandparents that were white, would he be black,  
> brown,
> gray, white or a person?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

"The one-drop rule is an historical colloquial term in the United  
States that holds that a person with any trace of African ancestry  
(however small or invisible) cannot be considered white and so, unless  
the person has an alternative non-white ancestry that he or she can  
claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, Australian aboriginal,  
the person must be considered black."

African origin Maru

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