Race, quantified

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From: DonH
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:55

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Is President Obama the first black man to be president?
Yes, No?  Half-true, as his father was black, and mother white.
He may identify with the blacks, but that is a subjective viewpoint.
  Likewise, Australian aborigines are defined by the Australian Bureau of 
Statistics, as those persons (a) who consider themselves to be aboriginal, 
and (b) are accepted as such by the aboriginal community.
  A person may have ancestors who were full-blooded aborigines, but, due to 
subsequent intermarriage, this has been diluted down the generations until 
even appearance is now white.
  So, race can be quantified, by genetic inheritance.
  Actor Robert Mitchum had black hair and "sleepy" eyes, but this is 
explicable when you learn that one of his grandmothers was an American 
"Indian".

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