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 Posted: Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 05:31 pm
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Mana: 
 Dixie Girl wrote: TimK wrote:  we stop calling President Obama our first African-American president, and start referring to him as our 44th president.
technically he's not our first black president. he's our first HALF - black president.

Dixie Girl reminds us how far we have come.
 
I am a son of the 'one-drop' south and at a loss to explain this part of our history when my 10-year-old daughter is simply amazoflabberstounded that the USA has never had a black president.
 
 
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