AD Powell,

Obama can identify how he sees fit! It's up to the person. Isn't that one of points of the multiracial movement? He isn't rejecting his white side. I think if he identified as white, you wouldn't have a problem with that. It's obvious that you have a problem with mixed race people that identify themselves as black. Some of the things you say is just plain ignorant. You stereotype ALL black people and it seems you have a hatred towards black people (Some of you comments are just plain racist). It's sad because if black people never existed YOU wouldn't be here, just like if white people never existed you wouldn't be here. Yes, I am a black woman and I don't care how mixed race people identify themselves. I got interested in multiracial issues because three of my cousins are biracial (two are half white and one is half latino). I'm glad my cousins are not like you. They love both of their sides equally, and no they don't identify as black.

Kayroswell,

I have years of experience with the usual nonsense of screaming racism whenever any "black" ideas or practices are criticized. Your people are not children and should be held to the same standards as everyone else.

I am also sick of the usual whining about trying to take away Obama's "choice" to be "black." When have your people ever defended the right of Anatole Broyard or Jean Toomer to be white or anything other than a "light-skinned" Negro/black, etc. (an oxymoron)? Obama is against free choice. He made this clear in his autobiography when he demonized the multiracial student "Joyce" for daring to claim her white ancestry and refusing to disown her white relatives.

As for "hate," you are projecting your own unto others. I've seen a lot of that, too.

John McWhorter is unusually honest in stating clearly that the black American devotion to the "one drop" myth and forced hypodescent originates in a racial inferiority complex:

http://www.theroot.com/views/lets-stop-being-angry-biracial-people