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And again: it isnt that simple. 'Black' isn't actually an accurate description for anybody. But as we know it is far more then a simple visual description.
According to my understanding of the term 'black' when applied to people, Obama looks like a black man to me. And that's the thing about looking black: the one thing it absolutely means is that you don't look white. he could stand there and say he is a white man: and nobody wuold see a white man. He can stand there and say he is a black man: and his appearance matches that. To say he is half-black carries with it the idea that he is half white: but it doesn't work like that. Never has.
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