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zbdent

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5. I heard what appeared to be a "leftish" argument yesterday ...
Tue Apr 3, 2012, 10:54 AM
Apr 2012

Obama's father is black, his mother's white. What does the "media" refer to him as? "Our first BLACK President."

Zimmerman's father is WHITE, his mother is Hispanic. I know, it's a stretch for the person to say that the "father determines the designation", but his implication would be that Z would be "white" by paternal genetics.

Then again, since the President's father was Kenyan, and his mother was a citizen of the U.S.A. (and there was a move to make it legal for Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for President, nullifying the "birthers'" arguments), that would truly make President Obama our first "African-American" President.

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