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by emergie 1955 days ago
Yeah, this and international differences about what "black" actually means. By standards of some cultures Barack Obama was not the first black president of the US but the first mulatto president of the US, as he is neither "properly" black nor white.
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If we used that standard, then almost no African American in existence would be considered Black. Since effectively all Black people with enslaved ancestors in America have some white ancestry.