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    CRAWLINGROSE: YAWN!!!!! more »
    EuniceAutolycus: Check out Baby Bug. Great little magazine albeit pricey. Mixed race families and lots of different faces, not just white. Nice pictures, poems, stu... more »
    cockeyed: Obama addressed the issue today, calling himself a "mutt." more »
    Devilish-Diva: Quit your yakking!. As Whoopi eloquently puts it: If you would have been lynched in the deep south, you are black!I am a black 44 yr old transplanted ... more »
    Trollopean Tubes: Thank you for this; I was getting a little sick of the knee-jerk reactions on Gawker to Tobey Young's admittedly nitwitted statements. How did it all ... more »
    blushingflower: The mixed v. black thing is interesting. Many, many slave women were raped by their masters, resulting in many children (including Frederick Douglass... more »
    Cole23: I've glance over a few of the comments on this board, and it seems to me that maybe we are putting to much emphasis on his color. What makes Obama's e... more »
    goodcheapfun: I know that this issue of black "enough" exists amongst light colored black people in the black community but when white people bring up this shit I w... more »
    Tbee: "The reason I grew up thinking I could do and be whatever I wanted was partly because I was precocious and confident (maybe not as a teenager.) But it... more »
    Blah8: How about we just stop using ridiculous blanket terms for huge amounts of different races of people!? Honestly, I'm not even totally sure what hell "b... more »
    ConradBabalastic: Very few mixed-race celebrities? Wow. I can't help but think you're looking in the wrong places. Go to the NBA, NFL, Hip-hop section on iTunes or e... more »
    arodriguez.romero: great post Dodai (and Anna) so sorry I didn't get to read it until now more »
    BiBiVirtue: As Carlton Banks said on The Fresh Prince, no matter how priveleged he was he's still jumping the same barriers as any other black man. I'm not sure w... more »
    Dot: Racial self-identification is a tricky thing. I am called white by one side of my family yet my parents moved us away from the other side who gave my ... more »
    superwoman: it's interesting how this debate plays out - i've always noticed that a lot of biracial african kids 'lose' their culture because somehow the parents ... more »
  • #isbarackobamablack

    Barack Obama: Biracial Icon To "Zebras" And "Oreos" Everywhere?