• irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So…people are only black if their family came directly to America from Africa? Being enslaved in other countries first means they aren’t black?

    And if you’re mixed-race, and you don’t count as being any of those races?

    And no mixed race person should become president because you’re taking away the chance for a single race person to be the first of that race to be president? And I think they forgot there was already a black president. Or are they saying the first woman president should be white so they don’t take away the ability for a white person to be the first woman president since black people already got a first?

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      4 months ago

      Was Obama the first black president? He’s half white, I don’t remember which race he picked on mixed race choosing day.

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      4 months ago

      I just facepalm every time someone says, “but her dad is from Jamaica!” Like slavery didn’t exist there.