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What exactly is your goal in shouting out that Obama isn't black? If you want to make people realize they're being silly by labeling a man as black when he's in fact half black and half white, you're soap box is in the wrong location. If you wish to point out that race is a ridiculous social construct then you need to, IMO, present your argument a bit better. Just because you think it's silly doesn't mean it's not true. There are people that think dinosaurs are a silly social construct but that doesn't stop their fossils from being found.
People seem to think that the idea of race disappears if one simply ignores it. In theory that's a great idea but in practice people naturally tend to separate things by their most obvious differences. The most obvious difference between Obama & John is skin color and lets face it, people are afraid of things that don't look and/or act like them.
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