I want you to be sure that this is an honest, no agenda attached  
question.
I know that the perception of race is rather different in the US than  
in Europe, but I don't understand why Obama is presented as a black  
person. To me he is a métis, which translates (badly) as a person of  
mixed race or even worse as mongrel.
The fact that there is no direct equivalent is also revealing, isn'it  
it?
To only take into account one of the parents and his/her herritage is,  
again to me, strange as well as sad. If I ever have children, they  
won't be white, Swiss nor oriental,  Japanese, but both, which in my  
eyes is something rather positive.

So, since Obama's mother was white and his father black, why does that  
make him black?

Cyril
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