I think a person may be identified as black or white as they choose if they have both. Obama's skin is darker than a white persons. He chooses to be considered African American. That is his right. The black people celebrated him as the first black president because he was the first person with BLACK SKIN to be president. You can hem and haw and post stuff like this but you need to accept that you are white. Deal with it. Obama's skin is black. Deal with it. Kennedy was celebrated for being catholic, and Irish. Clinton was excited to be the first President from Arkansas. Texas Celebrates GWB as being from Texas. Why do you try to deny the black people a chance to celebrate one of their own? I find it insulting to them to say he is not the first black president. I tell you what. Find me a picture of another President of the United States of America with Blacker Skin and your point will be won.As for this silly business of labeling blood, any layperson knows that blood is labeled very carefully. Not only is Type noted, but blood groups, and RH positive or negative also it is a face that certain groups of people carry certain disorders more frequently such as sickle cell anemia. So yes they test for that and label . Here is a link to get you started. They do blood group compatibi...
I think a person may be identified as black or white as they choose if they have both. Obama's skin is darker than a white persons. He chooses to be considered African American. That is his right. The black people celebrated him as the first black president because he was the first person with BLACK SKIN to be president. You can hem and haw and post stuff like this but you need to accept that you are white. Deal with it. Obama's skin is black. Deal with it. Kennedy was celebrated for being catholic, and Irish. Clinton was excited to be the first President from Arkansas. Texas Celebrates GWB as being from Texas. Why do you try to deny the black people a chance to celebrate one of their own? I find it insulting to them to say he is not the first black president. I tell you what. Find me a picture of another President of the United States of America with Blacker Skin and your point will be won.As for this silly business of labeling blood, any layperson knows that blood is labeled very carefully. Not only is Type noted, but blood groups, and RH positive or negative also it is a face that certain groups of people carry certain disorders more frequently such as sickle cell anemia. So yes they test for that and label . Here is a link to get you started. They do blood group compatibility and plasma compatibility, They do Hemolytic analysis to check for certain markers such as the Kell antigen or the Duffy antigen. So NO Blood is not just blood. Over simplifying just to make a point of race is silly. This is a VERY basic chart to help understand. 
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"BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS NOT THE USA's FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT."
That issue aside, I don't think we should push to stop calling Obama the first black president. HE IS black. I don't really care if he is half white, doesn't make him any less black (racially speaking, not talking about skin tone) because of it. But to say that somehow the argument that we should stop labeling blood because of mixed races is silly. Blood is very specific, our body will reject any type that doesn't match and that causes a lot of very dangerous issues. It's important that we screen blood to be as specific as possible.
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Now stop baiting liberals and go salt your driveway or something.
"The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry; meaning any person with "one drop of black blood" was considered black. The principle was an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status.[1] The one-drop rule was not adopted as law until the 20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (following the passage of similar laws in numerous other states)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"In societies that regard some races of people as dominant or superior and others as subordinate or inferior, hypodescent is the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups or ethnic groups to the subordinate group. [1] The opposite practice is hyperdescent, in which children are assigned to the race that is considered dominant or superior.
Parallel practices include agnatic descent, matrilineality and cognatic descent, which assign race according to the father, mo...
"The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry; meaning any person with "one drop of black blood" was considered black. The principle was an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status.[1] The one-drop rule was not adopted as law until the 20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (following the passage of similar laws in numerous other states)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"In societies that regard some races of people as dominant or superior and others as subordinate or inferior, hypodescent is the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups or ethnic groups to the subordinate group. [1] The opposite practice is hyperdescent, in which children are assigned to the race that is considered dominant or superior.
Parallel practices include agnatic descent, matrilineality and cognatic descent, which assign race according to the father, mother, or some combination, without regard to the race of the other parent. Since either parent (or both) might be of mixed-race, hypo- and hyper-descent can operate in tandem with, or separately from, a system of agnatic or cognatic racial assignment." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
(maybe we should just call them bi-racial, idk)
No, all blood is not the same. We have different blood types and getting the "wrong" blood is a concern. All races share some of those blood types.......
People will always be "labeled" by physical characteristics, but not in a blood bank. That one drop rule is still actually recognized in certain legal situations, and has mostly been applied to people of African ancestry who don't have white skin. The president's skin is not white, and he is the first president of obvious black ancestry to gain that office.
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