OrsonScottCard Posted:

Bonus points for actually realizing, unprompted, that he’s only half black.

Read The Big Sea, by Langston Hughes. For almost all of American history, nobody cares about what a person’s heritage is: if a person’s skin is dark enough, they’re black.

Hughes was a man of mixed race, who was able to pbum himself off as Mexican during his visits with his father…but he was still segregated as a black man in America. Even when he traveled to Africa, he was heartbroken that “pure-blooded” Africans wouldn’t accept him as a black man.

But now that Obama is a president, people suddenly care about his white background. It’s like changing the rules in the middle of the game.