On 3/14/12 10:52 AM, ken hanly wrote:
> Obama is in fact a mulatto. I have never seen him identified as such. If
> race comes up at all Obama gets classified as African-American. Is there
> a stigma to being mulatto or what. He is never called a Caucasian
> American even though that seems as appropriate as African American.
>

There is not stigma to being of mixed ancestry but there is a stigma to 
the term "mulatto". There was a Larry David episode about him using the 
term among a group of Black folks who gave him hell. He did for comic 
effect, however.
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