President Obama is as much Caucasian as he is African American. However, as existed a century and a half ago, if there was one drop of black blood in the family tree, the person was deemed to be black. I have wondered how many mixed, racially, citizens we now have in the United States.
"The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people or groups of people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may refer to the origin of more generationally distant genetic admixtures of more than one race in a person's DNA.
The actual incidence of multiracial admixture and heritage is believed to be far higher than is commonly reported, although there is evidence that this is changing as people become more comfortable with revealing personal multiracial heritage. Census records and other studies also show the real number of multiracial individuals to be increasing in the United States along with an increase in marriages across race lines. Other surveys also reflect this trend in many modern nations. The term "multiracial" may also be used to refer to groups or populations where individuals of more than one race are counted as a part of a whole group. In this sense of the word, "multiracial" refers to a racially heterogeneous rather than a homogeneous group or population." - from Wikipoedia.
For years, anthropologists have claimed that somewhere in our future, all people will be a mixture, a blend of all the races. Most of us have friends who are bi-racial, if not multi-racial. Beautiful Karen Finney of MSNBC talks about her Irish father and black mother. There are more and more faces, especially on TV, in which physiognomy suggests more than one race, When will the people of the United States catch up to the leaders in the rest of the world. We have been riding on old laurels for far too long. We need to face up to how we have been led to near oblivion as a nation. It is likely the Republicans will take quite a while to realize they no longer have the nation's citizens behind them. Will they act accordingly or will those representing the less than 50% continue to behave as though they are a majority just because they elected more of themselves into the Legislature?
"The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people or groups of people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may refer to the origin of more generationally distant genetic admixtures of more than one race in a person's DNA.
The actual incidence of multiracial admixture and heritage is believed to be far higher than is commonly reported, although there is evidence that this is changing as people become more comfortable with revealing personal multiracial heritage. Census records and other studies also show the real number of multiracial individuals to be increasing in the United States along with an increase in marriages across race lines. Other surveys also reflect this trend in many modern nations. The term "multiracial" may also be used to refer to groups or populations where individuals of more than one race are counted as a part of a whole group. In this sense of the word, "multiracial" refers to a racially heterogeneous rather than a homogeneous group or population." - from Wikipoedia.
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