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""Suppose Obama wants to identify himself as a "black." Should this be true, then it would be more correct to call him "the first U.S. president who is black by identification, but biracial by racial makeup." Conversely, suppose Obama wants to identify himself as a "white"; again, should this be true, it would be more correct to call him "the first U.S. president who is white by identification, but biracial by racial makeup." And, should Obama wants to identify himself as "mixed" (or "biracial"), then it would be more correct to call him "the first biracial, or mixed, U.S. president, both by identification and by racial makeup." In all these three possible cases, it is incorrect to simply call him "the first black U.S. president," for the reason that he is not, as explained above."" Dr. Peter Baofu

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