He’s Not Black
A well-written and passionate Washington Post piece arguing that thinking of Obama as black is wrong. “We call him that — he calls himself that — because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred. There’s no in-between.”
While the author doesn’t discount the importance of Obama’s win to black people (“The long, arduous battles that were fought and won in the name of civil rights redeemed our Constitution and brought a new sense of possibility to all minorities in this country.”), she also sees it as a milestone in hybridness (“The world has become too fused, too interdependent to ignore this emerging reality: Just as banks, earthly resources and human disease form an intricate global web, so do racial ties.”)
Hi, I'm 
As you and I have discussed in person, I’ve often wondered what the reaction to Obama would have been if he looked more like say Derek Jeter or Jason Kidd, two men with similar backgrounds (one black parent, one white one) who do not look “black” or “white” as opposed to Obama who looks black.
Would we still refer to him as the first black president? Or would a clearly biracial look have made him the first biracial president?