President...Obama Should Talk About Being Biracial

The president identifies as black, but David Kaufman hopes that during his second term, he’ll also discuss his biracial heritage.

Four years after he first entered the White House, there’s no longer anything surprising about calling Barack Obama—America’s first black president—a “transformational” leader. Yet the full extent of Obama’s transformational potential has yet to be realized in one realm: his biracial heritage.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/20/obama-should-talk-about-being-biracial.html

The Biracial Bob Marley: The Influence of Bob Marley's Absent, White Father

“My father was white and my mother black, you know. Them call me half-caste, or whatever.  Well, me don’t dip on nobody’s side.  Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side.  Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white, who give me this talent.”
-Bob Marley

Interesting article: The Influence of Bob Marley's Absent, White Father
(http://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/gurtman02.htm)

The 10 Best Multiracial Athletes, Past and Present

In honor of the progress this country has made, putting a biracial man in the White House as the President of the United States, I've decided to compile a list of the best multiracial athletes witnessed in sport. (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/152023-the-10-best-multiracial-athletes-past-and-present/page/11)

Multiracial...defined by Wikipedia

Multiracial Americans officially numbered 6.1 million in 2006, or 2.0% of the population.^[5][6] There is considerable evidence that an accurate number would be much higher. Prior to the mid-20th century, many people hid their multiracial heritage. The development of binary thinking about race meant that African Americans, a high proportion of whom have also had European ancestry, were classified as black. Some are now reclaiming additional ancestries. Many Americans today are multi-racial without knowing it.

Many mixed-raced Americans use the term biracial. The U.S. has a growing multiracial identity movement, reflective of a desire by people to claim their full identities. Interracial marriage, most notably between whites and blacks, was historically deemed immoral and illegal in most states in the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century, due to its long association of blacks with the slave caste. California and the western US had similar laws to prohibit European-Asian marriages, which was associated with discrimination against Chinese and Japanese on the West Coast. Many states eventually repealed such laws, and a 1967 decision by the US Supreme Court (Loving v. Virginia) overturned all remaininganti-miscegenation laws in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial#United_States

Striking Photos Will Change The Way You See The Average American

What does the average American look like? As time goes on, the answer to that question is becoming more and more complicated.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/national-geographic-changing-face-of-america-photos_n_4024415.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

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