Nobody said's colored person anymore. That's would either get someone fired are beat up.

This : in Europe the big rift is beetween europeans and muslim immigrants and there's where the main conflict goes.

Partly because he looks all black, partly because of an old American bias dating back to the heyday of race science that said "White * x = x" (x being any non-white race)

As a black man, all I want to say is: Don't take this away from me! Let us have this one!!

Woud you actually consider this one a man?

That is soooooo wrong.  On so many different levels.

For one... the difference between White and Black employment in the UK = the difference between White and Black employment in the US.

Now when it comes to France's unemployment levels for different races... let's just say it's MUCH worse.  When you can find the numbers anyway.  Since they tend to play "colorblind" laws.  As in, the government doesn't consider you a different race... even though everybody else does.

When it comes to Civil Rights laws... usually the US is ahead.

I mean, ask yourself this shio.  If Barak Obama was just some unknown guy walking down the streets of ANY europeon town... and someone were to go behind him, and ask the nice "non racist" europeon people in the streets.  "Say what race was that man right infront of me."

What do you think they would say?  Black... or "Half-white, half-black".  In the US we're just a little bit more straightfoward.

Outside of what someone on the street sees you as and the possible racism that might entail... what the heck does what race you are in the first place?

I don't get why Europeans are trying to argue racism and hate in America.

I'd argue that we are far less racist than Europeans, given the amount of cultures our country has. Most European countries have a very small ethnic minority, which would allow them to leave less impeded, whereas in the US, you have a significant number of minorities in black and hispanics, which would tend to cause far greater issues, yet we've largely dealt with them.

Call me back when Europe has a country that has 30% of its citizens in a minority group. Until that happens, all arguments are pretty irrelevant...For the amount of minorities Europe has, there is a lot of strife.

To be honest I always wondered this myself. Around here if you are half black and half anything else they just call you black. They also tend to call anyone who is Bi sexual simply gay and anyone who is part Hispanic Mexican.  Funny enough anyone from the middleast or looks to be is called certain other names. People love to form perfect little groups in which there ideas about them must be correct.

Lol I was gonna say that. I don't know how it is in other countries, but in the U.S. most people will indentify a Half Black/Half White person as Black.

I would probably call him "mulato", which in portuguese means a person descendent of both black and white.

Listen, I know a couple of mixed guys, and one of them in particular I know no one would call him black EVER. He's got darker skin, but the features are very european.

I can tell you I wouldn't call her a "woman" before the sex change, and the pre-sex change is the part that's better comparable to the black/half-black issue.

But yes, I would call her a woman now, but she isn't technically.