Obama is half white, yet he's always referred to as black because he looks black. If a half-white, half-black person looks white, there is no reason not to identify as white. No one has any moral obligation to say they're black if people assume they're white, any more than Obama has any obligation to go around telling people he's white. But in the end it shouldn't matter one way or the other.
shareExactly. If you look white... you're white.
Race isn't real biologically, so you can't "be" white or black in any scientific sense.
You're just black or white in a social sense. And that social category comes on how others identify you, not how you choose to "identify" yourself. Rachel Dolezal can't just say she's black because she feels like it.
And how others identify you is based on what you look like to them.
Color is an illusion. I am black, white, Jew , Gentile, American, Russian, man woman, gay, straight. I am the whore and the holy one.
sharePossibly
shareNot always. Growing up. Obama identified as white. Makes sense when you consider he was raised by his mother and grandmother (both Caucasian) in a predominately white neighborhood. It wasn't until he reached college age that he started to identify as African American.
shareI heard Obama was grown in a test tube in an underground CIA black site in Kenya. He was "programmed for auspiciousness" from an early age. There's nothing real about him.
shareDoubled standard. It's a conflicting race matter, but I get it. It comes more understanding when you know blacks can come in all shades, including "white" but whites can't produce anything darker naturally unless there's black in the ancestry somewhere. The different shades of black to the point it can produce something white makes it acceptable for a white looking person to be black than the other way around. The last thing racist white society would want is a BLACK looking person calling themselves white even if they're half or have a portion of white heritage in them because black is dominant and seen as a taint and thus nothing "white" can purify it to make that person call themselves white. But a white looking person with black in them would be considered tainted and thus, seen as black.
I hope that made somewhat of sense, but that's the best I can explain it.