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Barack Obama: Let’s not forget that he’s America’s first bi-racial president
The Washington Post
2012-11-08
Clinton Yates
If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president. As a black man who plans to eventually start a family with my white girlfriend, I’m going to tell them that Obama was the first man of color in the White House and that America’s 44th president was biracial.
With Tuesday night’s election results, we can see that America’s non whites came out in largely historic numbers to support the president, according to exit polls. And while Obama’s popularity in the black community is undeniable, his mixed-race lineage is a reality that we can’t ignore.
Don’t get me wrong. With the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and the “one-drop rule,” I clearly understand why Obama is regarded as black. But that doesn’t mean I have to repeat that incomplete narrative to the next generation…
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