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By Jesse Washington (AP)
A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama’s racial saga: Many people insist that “the first black president” is actually not black.
Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial – or, in Obama’s own words, a “mutt” – has reached a crescendo since Obama’s election shattered assumptions about race.
A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama’s racial saga: Many people insist that “the first black president” is actually not black.
Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial – or, in Obama’s own words, a “mutt” – has reached a crescendo since Obama’s election shattered assumptions about race.
