pardon me, but i didnt ask how schools conduct racial categorization. I asked for the rulebook article detailing exactly how having an arbitrary amount of black ancestry automatically classifies one, ipso facto, as black.

oh ok i see now. white is like cottage cheese and tastes the flavor of what is mixed with it. Doesnt seem to be a real race unless its pure. Dammit all to hell...my mother and father arent considered native american but my great grandmother was. Guess im way too white to capitalize on the minority status of my native american heritage.

who made up this rule? is it in the human handbook somewhere?

Yes, it was called the one-drop rule.

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

If you are half black, you are still considered black.

The reason Obama is considered to be black when he has a white mother and a black father goes back to Colonial America. Initially, the law was that any offspring of a slave mother was declared to be black and the legitimate "property" of a slave owner. Later that law was changed in that it declared that anyone with any African ancestry was deemed black and the legitimate "property" of a slave master.

The above is how we have, in the U.S., inherited the idea that anybody with any detectable African ancestry is "black", whether their complexions are ebony, caramel, quite pale or any shade in between.

However, there is another school of thought that states that a man is black or white by the way he defines himself. In Obama's case, he defines himself as being black since he is married to a black woman. Also he choses to be active, not in the white community, but in the black community. One final note is that he does not champion any white causes, but advocates black rights.

So he is a racist biracial person..okay.

um...race doesn't exist. it's a social construct...meant to keep down other cultures.

I agree, but why is it the leftist media, who also is propping up Barack so greatly while pummeling Hillary, keep on referring to Barack as being black over and over again? Racism?

um...race doesn't exist. it's a social construct...meant to keep down other cultures.

It is true that race is a social construct. However, a friend of mine who is a doctor sums up race by saying that from a scientific classification, that is, in medicine, there is only one race, the human race.

I'm beginning to wonder why it is the left that keeps detailing him as black over and over again. Isn't it the "racist white hicks of the south" that are suppose to be detailing that?

It's like, hey did you know Obama was black getting shoved down our throats by the liberal media over and over again, a media that is being EXTREMELY favorable towards him like he poops gold. They dare not say a single thing against him.

I am truly starting to believe the liberal media is playing the 'sorry for slavery you get a free ticket' card and as reparations we will get you into the Presidency and I do think that many in the left of the voters are doing the same thing.

Besides for change (whatever the heck that means) and pulling out of Iraq, what other issues has Obama talked about? Time and time again when asked on the streets those who said they have voted for Obama in the primaries say he will bring change, and say nothing but that. They are incredibly uniformed about him and his issues, they just think he speaks very well, so well he can get support without even detailing anything concrete.

cutelitldevilsmom.......

Why would you say such a stupid thing? Just because Obama prefers to identify himself with the black community does not make him racist. The man comes from the best of two worlds, the white world and the black world. He has chosen the black world and that does not make him racist. Additionally, what is wrong with being bi-racial? You seem like a bigot.