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Since race is a social construction, being biracial has never mattered before as much as it matters (to white people) now.
Biracial blacks were lynched, hosed down, attacked by dogs, called slurs, had to sit in the back of the bus, drank from "colored only" water fountains, been denied jobs, told they couldn't wed whites......
And today, biracial blacks are part of the structure of racism. Obama isn't "less black" because he's biracial just as his family isn't any less of a "black family."
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