(July 25, 2013 at 2:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Historical note: The President of the United States is as much white as he is black.
The term that used to exist for that is Mulatto. Not a word considered in vogue anymore.
Personally I think the reason why everyone only thinks of him as black and only black usually is from the old days of "One Drop Rule".
During the Jim Crow era each state had definitions for whether you were black or not depending on how many black ancestors you had. Some said if you were at least 1/8th black you were considered black. Others said 1/16th.
However, under all of these Zimmerman would have been considered black. But our media doesn't even consider him hispanic most of the time. Only white.
This shit's getting confusing.
I say we scrap all of the terms altogether.
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