Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’
by UncleMeat on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:14PM
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Why is Obama considered black? The very fact that some races bind harder than others should indicate that our racial labels are not tied strongly to genetics.
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Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’
by factsaresacred on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:39PM
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> Why is Obama considered black?
It's obvious that's he's black and Caucasian. Why he's called black in America while in other places he'd be mixed-race is a product of American culture and his own preference I imagine (many mixed-race people decide to 'identify as black', meaning culturally).
But the label he's given does not change his underlying race.