Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black.We call him that -- he calls himself that -- because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred. There's no in-between.
Naturally, when Rush Limbaugh says this, he's a racist. I tried it at dinner one evening, and all I got was silence and an eventual, "no comment," from the one Democrat present.
I'm sure it will also come as a surprise to the NAACP, the SCLC, and Donna Brazile.
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We used to call it malotto. Do you suppose the word is now considered derogatory?
Posted by: Steven Kalbach | November 30, 2008 10:02 AM