However the point can be made with other descriptions such as mixed-race or
whatever you want. I just thought of mulatto as a descriptive term designating
someone with one black parent and one white parent since Obama has a white
mother and black father. Why is he identified as an African American? This
shows something significant as to the way race is perceived in the U.S. The one
drop rule as one comment put it.
Cheers, ken
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From: Max Sawicky <[email protected]>
To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:08:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Why is Obama never identified as a mulatto?
Mulatto harkens back to invidious caste distinctions serving
exploitative purposes. This was developed to a high art in
Louisiana, among other places ("quadroon," "octoroon").
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:57 AM, raghu wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:52 AM, ken hanly <[email protected]> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> The one drop rule?
>
>When is the last time anyone in the U.S. used the word "mulatto"?
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