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Re: Who gets your vote for the next president
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Originally Posted by shakermaker
That's all very well but it's quite irrelevant really. Biologically speaking, Obama is not a black person. He may identify with heroes from one side of his ancestry but it does not change his DNA.
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I think you'll find there are very few people in the States who identify themselves as black, who have a pure strain of sub-Saharan D.N.A.
Just as most people who think of themselves as white don't have purely Anglo-Saxon heritage, as was shown in the television programme So You Think You're English?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/ma.../expatres.html
We are all mongrels, and it's a choice as to what we see ourselves as. 
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