WOW A 1/2 BLACK PREZ

Who woulda thunk? Sorry guys as a mother of a mixed child and hopefully another one some day I refuse to call him a black president. I just cant back the concept of one persons race out weighing the other, the fact that people want it to well means we really haven't come that far. I was thinking last night how my first election was for Bill Clinton and people were remarking that he was the first Black Prez, why because of where he came from culturally well if your culture background is where you get it from then Obama is just another white pres... he was after all raised by his white mother and typical grandmother. I am not at all trying to negate the fact that most people look at him and see a black man its just a curious thing to me.
My loving husband Ndebe often declares himself African since his father was born in raised in Liberia. I wonder how this makes his mom feel to just negate who she is. Understanding that when they split up he chose to stay with his father he was in the end touched more by the African side then the Black American side. I have always felt bad for the parents of mixed children as society wants to label them purely on site and deny them the rights to be who they are. I try hard to teach Tage that he is Hispanic and white, yet when you see him walking down the street at you he is just another white kid. I wonder why people fear the race game in labeling people when its often the surface of a persons very being. When Ndebe and I have a child it will be half white half black period I wont justicify Americas neat little labels and allow anyone to call it black.

Just the same WOW a brown face in the White House amazing. Ndebe said this hurt him because it meant his father lied to him as a child.... He was told he could be anything he wanted when he grew up .... except.... Well Mr. Selli I guess this is an OK lie.
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