What race do you think Barack Obama is? White, Black, Mixed Race, or something else?

[CreekDog]

145. Yes. I appreciate what you've written.

my point in the OP, and I'm sorry I was clumsy about it...was that when we are asked what someone's race is (as the Pew Poll did), that people remember that it is what the person one is describing says or thinks it is. if they identify one, two or multiple ways, in a unique way or not at all, it is their call and they are right.

one thing that upset me here at DU was several years ago was when people were deciding whether Obama was white or black. so many people didn't think it mattered what he, Obama thought was the answer.

so i saw the poll from Pew and, the thing that stood out to me was that they grouped "Hispanics" which isn't a race in the traditional sense and more of them thought he was mixed race than the other groups asked, but being that Hispanic is so varied, an artificial construct of multiple artificial races, that i wondered if many in that "category" were more familiar with the idea of mixed race, rather than having to group so much...but who knows...

but the other thing that really grated me was they must have asked *which* race, not allowing the respondents to say more than one answer (the census does though). i know people that self identify as mixed but also identify with one or more races. the question should have recognized that as a valid or possible answer.

but those of mixed race are really underappreciated and often forced into categories that they don't necessarily hate, but would hate being forced into only one.

thank you for the thoughts.