(NAME-MCE) Barack is not Black update - Teja

[Teja Arboleda]

Agreed - It is completely up to the individual to define him/herself. And
agreed - we are all mixed. Hence the need for all of us to come to terms
with this on a national scale. National discussion on this will come into
play in the next year, no doubt.

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> From: "Elizabeth M. Mimms" <emimms at umich.edu>
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> And who defines who is "Black enough" to be called "Black," or too
> Black to be called White, Asian, Native American, Arabic, and so on?
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> And aren't most of us mixed some where along our ancestral line?
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> Racial categories are very, very broad and there is much overlap.
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> It is the individual's prerogative to define his or her own racial identity.