Palmetto Past & Present: The Incredible Francis Cardozo

Very interesting piece. But why do we as a society generally call any person who is mixed with an african race “black” when they are also another race? Barack Obama, for example, is fully half white, i.e. he is equally as white as he is black…but we call him black. In his case, given that his father fully abandoned him and it was his white side of the family that truly took care of him, I can never understand why he doesn’t call himself white (well, I’ll admit that that’s disingenuous on my part…we all know why he choses to call himself black instead of white.)