Black and White

I’m really tired of hearing Barack Obama referred to as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party in The United States.

"Sen. Obama embodies contradictions in the community that are starting to bubble to the surface -- largely out of the earshot of whites. He is the biracial son of an African father and a white mother in a community where most people are descended from slavery or whose ancestors had direct experience with segregation. He is the married father of two in a community in which more than 60% of children grow up in a single-parent household. He's a politician who isn't steeped in the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s and didn't grow up in the inner city or in a black neighborhood." (Click on the title for the full Wall Street Journal article).

Barack Obama is in fact the first biracial presidential nominee of a major political party in The United States.

A couple of generations ago in this country Barack Obama's ethnicity might have been referred to in other terms, like "mulatto," but times change; now the politically correct term is "biracial”.

Whatever. Let’s just try to be accurate when we talk about a person's ethnicity, whether it be Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, or Halle Berry.