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Some white ancestry is not key to racism/AA, appearance is.
:::::It's not an either/or. In our society today, there are certain elements of race and its impact that are still considered noteworthy. That does not remove character. And yes, having a mother who is lilly white does get Obama treated separately as he is obviously not just black and to refer to him only as black and not bi-racial would be inaccurate -- although I myself seldom look at that article. Blackness is mentioned for Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and for Clarence Thomas, as well as many others where such factors have had significant meaning. Colin Powell is one of those people. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:40, 21 October 2008 (EDT)
:::::It's not an either/or. In our society today, there are certain elements of race and its impact that are still considered noteworthy. That does not remove character. And yes, having a mother who is lilly white does get Obama treated separately as he is obviously not just black and to refer to him only as black and not bi-racial would be inaccurate -- although I myself seldom look at that article. Blackness is mentioned for Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and for Clarence Thomas, as well as many others where such factors have had significant meaning. Colin Powell is one of those people. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:40, 21 October 2008 (EDT)
People who have experienced racism/Affirmative Action first hand will tell you that the possibility of partially lily-white ancestry is not first checked. [[User:BHarlan|BHarlan]] 15:50, 21 October 2008 (EDT)