Reply #60: obama's experience is not that different from many black people [View All]

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who grew up in bi and multiracial families. we were and are considered black in this society. it's only recently that the term biracial means something other than black. there were biracial slaves, and biracial people who couldn't pass were treated the same way other black people were during jim crow. the concept of mixed race people is probably still foreign to some, or a fairly recent development in the family of some others, but it's nothing new to most black people. or people like strom thurmond, who impregnated his family's 16 yo black maid. that happened a lot in the south. i have an ancestor who was a slave owner and a colonel in the confederate army. it took a while for me to "embrace" him.