Saturday, February 12, 2011

It's Okay To Be Bi-Racial - Say It Loud, And Be Proud

So Barack Obama check the box on his census form for 2010 that he is Black.
Wow. I wonder how he arrived at that conclusion? Did he have an epiphany?
A nightmare?
He went through great lengths in his campaign for the nomination and the campaign to never show himself with Black folks. He was always pictured with his White mom and maternal grandparents. In reality he has no DNA Black relative son American soil,
His father, whom he saw once in his life was a foreigner from Africa.
Mariah Carey, Jasmine Guy, Faith Evans, Tiger Wood, Shemar Moore, Halle Berry,
Mya, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Drake, Alicia Keys and Etta James are all bi-racial.
Only Evans did not have a Black father (he mom was, and her father was White).
A recent Berry story about her daughter triggered this blog. She wants her daughter to label herself Black, even though her child has a White father and a bi-racial mother.
Berry brought up the one drop rule*. She should have done her research a bit better,
*In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, conclusively invalidated Plecker's Virginia Racial Integrity Act. That meant the Court was reversing the one-drop rule, calling it unconstitutional.

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