Summary
In "The 'Post-Racial' President" (September 2009), Salim Muwakkil writes, "Obama is classified as black solely because he shares the DNA of his Kenyan father." I disagree. Obama is in large part classified as black because he identifies himself as black. According to his DNA, he could have rightfully identified himself as biracial - as black and white and questioned both our society's system of racial classification and the whole notion of race, but he chose not to. In his book Dreams From My Father and his speeches, Obama says that since society sees him as a black man, he identifies himself as a black man. Muwakkil makes it seem as if Obama is a helpless victim of racial pigeonholing "solely because" of his father's DNA. He is not. He chose to go along with the system. By identifying himself as black, Obama aided and abetted his being classified as black.
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