Morgan Freeman says Obama is not America's first black president.

Statement of the obvious award.

NEWS FLASH TO MORGAN FREEMAN:

The vast majority of American blacks are mixed-race.

What do you expect from the most overrated actor of all time?

His mother is entirely white.

No way he can be defined as black.

I would say that his children are black.

dartmoth graduate wrote:

What do you expect from the most overrated actor of all time?

You take that back. Go watch Shawshank Redemption.

But the only black thing in Obammy's mammy was his daddy's Oscar Meyer weiner...

Wonder what's his stance on Tiger? Greatest mixed race golfer ever?

Overrated actor? Morgan Freeman is one of the 10 best actors in Hollywood right now. The fact that you think he is overrated says something about your knowledge of great acting and movies.

dartmoth graduate wrote:

What do you expect from the most overrated actor of all time?

Good point. It is well known that overrated actors tend to think that Obama is the first mixed-race President and not the first black President. Everyone should have expected this.

What about DC's "black" mayor?

http://www.davidandrewgrant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Vincent-Gray.jpeg

Kevin Costner said nothing.

dartmoth graduate wrote:

What do you expect from the most overrated actor of all time?

all mixed-up race wrote:

NEWS FLASH TO MORGAN FREEMAN:

The vast majority of American blacks are mixed-race.

The vast majority of blacks are mixed-race.....based on this thread that statement displays your stupidity at such a high level.

Would you call Obama white because he has a white parent? No. So why would you call him black? It doesn't make sense. You can say someone is half black and half white. Similar to talking about your heritage. If you're 25% English, German, Irish, Polish, that's what you are. You aren't 100% of any of those things. Some might say they are German, but they correct thing would be you are 25% German, or you have some German in you.

so??? wrote: The vast majority of blacks are mixed-race.....based on this thread that statement displays your stupidity at such a high level.

Your not too bright. Your ...argument... you proved my point. If consider yourself an American black, go to Africa and convince real Africans that you are black. Good luck.

You are disqualified from asserting the following:

all mixed-up race wrote:

Your not too bright.

so??? wrote:

Would you call Obama white because he has a white parent? No. So why would you call him black? It doesn't make sense. You can say someone is half black and half white. Similar to talking about your heritage. If you're 25% English, German, Irish, Polish, that's what you are. You aren't 100% of any of those things. Some might say they are German, but they correct thing would be you are 25% German, or you have some German in you.

I pretty much agree - but with respect to national origin, I think if you're at least 50% of something it's okay to call that your ancestry.

I have quite a few friends who are mixed race (usually an Asian and a white parent) and they identify themselves as "mixed," not one or the other. I realize that mixed-race black/whites were considered black or "colored" back in the days of Jim Crow, but I think we should be beyond that now.

Obama is mixed - I don't have a problem if he wants to identify himself as "black," since most American blacks are in fact of mixed ancestry - but if someone asked me what race he is my spontaneous reaction would be "mixed of course."

It's called the One Drop rule:

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

It was law in America for a long, long time.

Doesn't it, in part, matter where he was born? His true birth place is still not known.

fsddfs wrote:

Doesn't it, in part, matter where he was born? His true birth place is still not known.

Actually we've known about Hawaii for quite some time. Where have you been?

so??? wrote:

Would you call Obama white because he has a white parent? No. So why would you call him black? It doesn't make sense. You can say someone is half black and half white. Similar to talking about your heritage. If you're 25% English, German, Irish, Polish, that's what you are. You aren't 100% of any of those things. Some might say they are German, but they correct thing would be you are 25% German, or you have some German in you.

Don't confuse skin color with nationality. Obama's skin is black.