Why do americans say Obama is black?

[libellule]

shio said:

libellule said:

- sorry to burst your bubble : most of the mixed people will be seen as black people, or will be attached to the black people group in europe TOO.

 

That is not true, imo. I don't even remember anyone calling a mixed person "black". And I also have been to France many times.

Where I currently live we have a huge black community and another gypsy community. It is irrelevant if a mixed guy hangs out more with people of  a certain race, they'll always be mixed.

 

 

OK, let's focus on this point.
I will talk about France.

I try to not call people "black" and to only refer to their skin color as being "black/brown/light/white" skin

neverthless, I know someone who is from an arab/black mix but looks like a black person (nose + brown color + very curly hair) and she likes to consider herslef (and other see her like this too) as a black person

I know another one (mixed too, black/white I assume), that I think most people will consider as a mixed girl

I know another one (coming from Maurice Island, OVERmixed country, WW record lol) that is very close to an indian girl but she, recently referred herself as a black (before I countered her saying she was not that black)

you know, in France, for ALL our media, Obama, before being intelligent, before being interesting, before being american, before everything .... Obama was BLACK !