[78-L] You never answered Chris Zwarg's question

[Tom]

Why does President Obama's racial background matter to you?
 
Does it add anything by way of incremental insight to note to someone you're talking with (as if he or she doesn't already know) that President Obama is an African American?
 
If you want to road test the use of the word "mulatto", by all means, go to someplace like the South Bronx and start talking with the homies and use the term as in, "I understand your mulatto President, Barack Obama, is going to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay", and report back to us as to the kind of reception you got.
 
However, in the above-cited sentence, what's gained by the inclusion of the word "mulatto"?
 
Nothing I can see, other than some incremental insight as to what's important to you.


--- On Sat, 1/24/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] You never answered Chris Zwarg's question
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 2:28 PM

I think the mules complained. I guess it's also politically uncorrect (PU)
to 
listen to "Octoroon" and "My Pretty Quadroon".

By the way, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Warren Harding and Andrew Jackson 
have recently been cited as not being lily white. Lincoln may also have been 
Jewish. Oy.

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> What ever became of the term "mulatto?"  Has it also become one
of our PC 
> no-no" words?  Our new president is also half white, is he not?  So
what the
> hell is the difference?
> 
> Bud 
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