LiveWire Network Peer Answers Peer Support Teen Forums Tech Forums College Forums 389 users online 223137 members 373 active today Advertise Here Sign In
TeenCollegeTechPhotos | Quizzes | LiveSecret | Memberlist | Dictionary | News | FAQ
Member Spotlight
EmerleeX
Peeves: Stupid people, People who don't take c...
Mood: Romantic
You have 1 new message.
Emergency Help
Until you sign up you can't do much. Yes, it's free.

Sign Up Now
Membername:
Password:
Already have an account?
Invite Friends
Active Members
Groups
Contests
Moderators
3 online / 19 MPM
Fresh Topics
  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Race, Ethnicity & Nationality / Viewing Topic

What do you consider Barack Obama?
Replies: 27Last Post Nov. 8, 2008 3:57am by runthespread
Welcome to LiveWire!
We're Stronger Together.
Join the Community
Pages: 1 2 Email Print Favorite
Web Resources: Rape Myths Dispelled, Help & Information about Rape
USA Rape, Abuse and Incest Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (1-800-656-4673)
Choice Votes Percent  
White 0 0%
Black 9 23%
Mixed or Bi/Multi Racial 29 76%
Vote Now! 38 Votes Cast
( Uniq0ne )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
Quote: from Micus at 5:11 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 8:03 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:00 am on Nov. 6, 2008


  you see thats where your wrong, black means anyone mixed with a thoroughbred black person,    

  example black+white can equal black or mixed


 

 No you are wrong.  

 Black has always been African American. It's until recently people with low intelligences have been calling multi racial people black.


The old textbook definition described a black person as having even as little as 1/16'th black blood in the genes to qualify as black.

People who didn't even look black were black because someone in their family tree married a black person.


I'm going to start calling white people black now, just for the hell of it.


5:14 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: June 2007 | Days Active: 332
Join to learn more about Uniq0ne Washington, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 2,564 | Points: 5,885
LiveWire Humor
Tyrant


Executive
Reply
Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:09 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:08 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:03 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:00 am on Nov. 6, 2008

   
   you see thats where your wrong, black means anyone mixed with a thoroughbred black person,

  example black+white can equal black or mixed


  No you are wrong.

  Black has always been African American. It's until recently people with low intelligences have been calling multi racial people black.


 

 NO YOUR WRONG WHAT DO YOU CALL BLACK FOLKS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES BLACK, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM AFRICAN AMERICAN


I call those guys Indian, Egyptian etc.

Whatever, I guess it's just all personal opinion.


HOW DO YOU CALL A BLACK PERSON FROM A PLACE SUCH AS AFRICA INDIAN???

-------
American badman in England


5:15 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: July 2006 | Days Active: 177
Join to learn more about Tyrant England, United Kingdom | Bi-curious Male | Posts: 2,156 | Points: 3,999
MattJ


Executive

Patron
Reply
Quote: from r o c 2 at 8:13 am on Nov. 6, 2008

that nigga black
you only see one color dog.

-------
GUITARISTHEBESTTHINGTOEVERHAPPENINMYLIFE
MAYBE

5:15 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Mar. 2008 | Days Active: 226
Join to learn more about MattJ Wisconsin, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,507 | Points: 3,600
( Uniq0ne )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
Quote: from Tyrant at 5:15 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:09 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:08 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:03 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:00 am on Nov. 6, 2008


    you see thats where your wrong, black means anyone mixed with a thoroughbred black person,      

   example black+white can equal black or mixed


   

  No you are wrong.    

  Black has always been African American. It's until recently people with low intelligences have been calling multi racial people black.


  NO YOUR WRONG WHAT DO YOU CALL BLACK FOLKS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES BLACK, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM AFRICAN AMERICAN


 

 I call those guys Indian, Egyptian etc.  

 Whatever, I guess it's just all personal opinion.


HOW DO YOU CALL A BLACK PERSON FROM A PLACE SUCH AS AFRICA INDIAN???


I said I call indian dudes indian even though they look black.


5:28 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: June 2007 | Days Active: 332
Join to learn more about Uniq0ne Washington, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 2,564 | Points: 5,885
PROgoth121


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
He's obviously mixed.  I think people who say he is black needs to go and see an eye doctor.  Either that or they need to use common sense.  Mixed isn't just black.  

5:30 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Oct. 2008 | Days Active: 116
Join to learn more about PROgoth121 North Carolina, United States | Metrosexual Male | Posts: 713 | Points: 2,094
Tyrant


Executive
Reply
Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:28 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:15 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:09 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:08 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:03 am on Nov. 6, 2008

Quote: from Tyrant at 5:00 am on Nov. 6, 2008

     
    you see thats where your wrong, black means anyone mixed with a thoroughbred black person,

    example black+white can equal black or mixed


   No you are wrong.

   Black has always been African American. It's until recently people with low intelligences have been calling multi racial people black.


   

  NO YOUR WRONG WHAT DO YOU CALL BLACK FOLKS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES BLACK, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM AFRICAN AMERICAN


  I call those guys Indian, Egyptian etc.

  Whatever, I guess it's just all personal opinion.


 

 HOW DO YOU CALL A BLACK PERSON FROM A PLACE SUCH AS AFRICA INDIAN???


I said I call indian dudes indian even though they look black.


whatever at the end of the day your previous statement about all blacks being african american is incorrect

-------
American badman in England


5:32 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: July 2006 | Days Active: 177
Join to learn more about Tyrant England, United Kingdom | Bi-curious Male | Posts: 2,156 | Points: 3,999
atomictastic


Swami

Patron
Reply
He's black...

Some people says I look black, Spanish, and even heard I'm black & white lol. I'm mixed soooo....

-------
I never thought that I would find my way
Into the light, dreamin to find, who ever you are


6:03 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Dec. 2006 | Days Active: 369
Join to learn more about atomictastic Pennsylvania, United States | Gay Male | Posts: 20,158 | Points: 25,671
( Uniq0ne )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
Check out this website guys, post how many you got right.

http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm

I only got like 5 right... lol


6:08 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: June 2007 | Days Active: 332
Join to learn more about Uniq0ne Washington, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 2,564 | Points: 5,885
snowfish


Swami

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Uniq0ne at 7:57 am on Nov. 6, 2008

I'm just curious. What do you all consider Barack Obama? I've been hearing nothing but he's a black guy, when he really is not...

Black = African American and nothing else.

His mother was white and his father was black.

 
Oh and just for shits and giggles, here is a pic of me. Would you call me mixed, white or black just based on my skin tone? lol


black =/= african american and nothing else

that is SO simplistic I'm surprised you could even type it  up. That ignores the entire history of mixing between african slaves and native americans, ignores long histories of slaves being raped by white people, ignores black latinos (when the term latino has more to do with your language or location than skin color).  To be black is often not to know. The one drop rule has been in place for generations and it is only now starting to be questioned. Now that said, people of mixed race are often ignored and it is nice to see his mixed ancestry recognized. So he's black, and mixed, and african. Things don't have to be so black and white you know.

-------
LW's resident eccentric radical.


10:17 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Feb. 2006 | Days Active: 683
Join to learn more about snowfish Massachusetts, United States | Female | Posts: 11,690 | Points: 25,993
Bud2400


skeet skeet skeet

Patron
Support Leader
Reply
If we're looking at Obama's race strictly from a biological point of view, or however you'd like to call that, he's clearly mixed.  White heritage on one side and black heritage on the other.

If we're looking at it from a more social perspective, then I'd say Obama is more black than white.  While I'm sure he doesn't treat his white half of his family any differently, he appears to identify more with blacks than whites, considering a few things such as his church, as well as statements about it made by himself.

It'd be nice if Obama nor anyone else even paid attention to his race.  I personally find it of such little relevance that it bugs me how it's constantly brought up, especially lately through how he "made history."  I simply perceive Obama as any other individual, now our future president, and honestly nothing more.


10:24 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Dec. 2004 | Days Active: 1,389
Join to learn more about Bud2400 Washington, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 9,750 | Points: 38,275
latric3


Soothsayer
Reply
Having dark pigment in ur skin makes u BLACK, regardless of ur genetics, it's what people will see u as and treat u as, even though he really is mixed.

-------
Just a nobody trying to tell anybody about somebody who can do everything!

10:42 am on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Mar. 2007 | Days Active: 564
Join to learn more about latric3 Georgia, United States | Straight Female | Posts: 7,208 | Points: 13,364
kidd rune


Enlightened One

Patron
Reply
Mixed.
He has an Alpinoid-Med-Bruenn mother (with some Amerind ancestry)

and a Negro father.

-------
"One of the Germans... would frequently snatch a child from the
woman's arms and... tear the child in half... Such incidents...
occurred all the time." - A Year in Treblinka, Yankel Wiernik,
Treblinka's "most authoritative eyewitness"


2:35 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2007 | Days Active: 273
Join to learn more about kidd rune Florida, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 10,569 | Points: 14,342
runthespread


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
Multi. He looks Black but is also White. He lived some years in an Asian country and grew up in Hawaii, a state known for it's multi-cultural blend (which doesn't have a high population of Blacks or Muslims, by the way).

3:57 am on Nov. 8, 2008 | Joined: May 2008 | Days Active: 353
Join to learn more about runthespread California, United States | Straight | Posts: 5,171 | Points: 9,171
Pages: 1 2 Email Print Favorite

Quick Reply

You are signed in as our guest.

Looking for something else?
 

  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Race, Ethnicity & Nationality / Viewing Topic