http://doodiepants.com/2010/01/13/barack-obama-is-not-black/ Making a Stink Since 2009 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://doodiepants.com/2010/01/13/barack-obama-is-not-black/comment-page-1/#comment-12456 Adam Baum Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:02:03 +0000 http://doodiepants.com/?p=3643#comment-12456 The claim that the one drop rule was not and is not scientific, is true, but "race" as defined in this sense is not scientific. It is based on arbitrary phenotype features that are not clustered. When Barack Obama was watched by police or generally judged by society, did they sit down and "get to know him"? Or did they all take the time to draw out his lineage before ascribing prejudgements to him? The claim that the one drop rule was not and is not scientific, is true, but “race” as defined in this sense is not scientific. It is based on arbitrary phenotype features that are not clustered.
When Barack Obama was watched by police or generally judged by society, did they sit down and “get to know him”? Or did they all take the time to draw out his lineage before ascribing prejudgements to him?

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