If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?

I really want to know how many of you, if you were being robbed by a man of Obama's racial background, would say that the thief was an inter-racial man.If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?Not likely. I would likely suggest he could be a biracial man, but that he was definitely a light-skinned man with non-African facial features. So what?



Do you believe people most often are a product of their raising? Is it not relevant for us to recognize who raised him and who abandoned him? Is it appropriate for others to disrespect the part of his family that raised him, sacrificed for him, loved him, and molded him just because it satiates their own racial agendas?



I get your point. I hope you get mine.



EDIT - I getcha. But I mentioned the disrespect of his white family because many (perhaps not you) have. It is very relevant in terms of who is, and who he is isn't just about what he would be described as by a robbery victim. I'm sure a co-worker, or a neighbor, or someone that knew him but was not robbed by him would note the same as I have above....that he does appear biracial, or at least has European features. I've known many blacks and others to confuse Italians for Mexicans and Indians for Arabs. Does it make the Indian robbing a black guy any less Indian because his victim didn't have a conversation with him to learn of his actual background?



I don't think any "rules" are being changed. Since of the end of Jim Crow, the only "rules" that existed have been in the minds of some, on both the black and white sides of the table. Where I come from, biracial and mixed have been a part of the vocabulary for decades.If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?
I would not seek the police, because Arabs typically do not steal cars.

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If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?I would say black, but light black so possibly half-black, half-white. Which would be true, if it were a man with his exact complextion. That is, if I saw them.

Clearly, though, it could just as easily be a women, or a white person, or chinese person, or hispanic, etc.



But yes, generally people call half-black, half-white people black. Though there are some instances where the person looks more white, then they are called white. I have not called him black once, and I correct anyone I hear who does. I think it has more to do with appearance, than background. For instance, someone who tans too much can be mistaken for a light-skinned black person.
very interesting. dude your mind is so awesome and your intelluct is so amazing. I would say that a black man was stealing my car because he heritage is black. In this society most times we only see the surface. For example if someone looks white, then they are white and if they look black then they are black. Like Charlize Theron is African-American(Black) but with a first look you would think that she is white. He is also Hawaii, but that neither makes him black or white it makes him hawaiian. If Obama classifies himself as black which he does, then he is black.If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?It's pointless to make people answer you when you, yourself, already know the obvious answer. Like we don't know many blacks have some white in them. Don't worry, Presidency or not, majority of us whites won't be trying to claim him as our own anytime soon. Never did, never will.



That said, what we do understand is that he is half white and that half is what helped him gain the acceptance he needed. It could also be argued that Obama was able to climb this far and high due to his superior white genes helping out. While his black side represented the change of his platform, the radical side. In a way Obama was lucky. He happened to be at the right place, the right time. If it wasn't for the monster of a mess that Bush made, I'd bet my life, there would be no Obama today. So you can all really thank George Bush.



And here's another thought, it helped Obama that he isn't what we normally associate with black attitudes. Think Jesse Jackson's hot headedness to Obama's cool and calm approach.

So it would have been a far greater achievement (and astonishment) if someone either very pro-black or with fully black genes won. Perhaps people such as Oprah. As you saw with Jesse Jackson, he never stood a real chance at ever becoming accepted when he tried to run for Presidency. Part of his problem was (regardless if he had white in him or not), he was/is much too pro-black and radical to be taken seriously.



So in answer to your question. We would of course see that thief as a black at first glance. But you cannot truly use that kind of example to justify or compare. It is a lot more complicated than that. As you should be more than aware. Namely that just because we now have a "black" President in the White House, it doesn't mean that will stop what you think is racism.



Besides there's also a theory that some whites voted for Obama just to see his downfall. I'm thinking those whites are not trying to link him to the white race anytime soon.

So I'd wait for bragging rights just a bit longer.If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?
no matter how hard everyone is going to try to deny it, if obama wasn't out in the media, and news of his white mother had never came out, everyone would say he was black. but ever since he won this election, people always want to bring up the point that he is half white, when obama himself has said that he is black.



back to the issue of stealing a car, i will bet money that if a man of obama's racial background was to rob a car, the first thing they would tell the police is that it was a black man, and people can thumb me down for it all they want, but i've seen it with my own eyes. the same way you see all the so called pit-bulls killing children in the news, half of them are not really pitbulls. most of them are a mixture of another dog and pitbull, or another breed separately, but people are so quick to label them as a pitbull whenever they do something bad because they have the reputation of being bad dogs, the same way with black men.
uhh... Dude this is a trippy question anyways do you mean features or complexion cuz complexion I'd be like " uhm so darkish guy jacked my car" lol you can't tell by color you have to see defined features that come from different countreis.If you saw a man with Obama's complexion stealing your car, would you tell the cops it was an inter-racial man?
I wouldn't know if he's inter-racial.

I'd just probably say "a light brown man"

Or I'd compare his skin color to a celebrity or something.
I would say he looks mixed because he does. He does not look like a black man of any nationality, and he based on his facial shape/features, he does not look like a Black American.
No, because first of all some black people have light skin, and second of all I'd just be concerning myself with how the dude looked, not his race.
i'd say he looked and is most likely mixed (black/white)

i'd give an accurate description. he doesnt look like your typical black guy, so i would not say he was just black
No propbly light skinned, or hispanic. ;b its not gonna work.
of course not! I would NEVER say he was an interracial man, I would say he was a biracial man
well,he does not look FULL black..so I would say he is probably bi-racial!