What we identify ourselves as

In this article it talks about breaking the race line and not just categorizing people in one group. Marie Arana's Washington first example she used was Barack Obama. She said "He is not black," "unless the one-drop rule still applies. I do agree that Obama isn't fully black but if that's what he identify himself as than that's what matters. So I guess she is right about the right term to call him would be the first bi-racial president or in other words the first with some color.

She also use examples of people in the media like Halle Berry, Ne-Yo,Mariah Carey.... that are bi-racial and she even put in a quote by Langston Hughes, "I am not black. There are different kinds of blood in our family.But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins...I am Brown. I also see myself saying I am not black I am brown sometimes as joke, I am not black I am a brown color or African American. Langston Hughes was too Biracial he was half black and Native American, and I guess what that quote means is that he identifies himself as not just black but his other race too.

Then she puts her own life experiences like when she went to take a DNA test and found she had other races in a her blood line. When she took the DNA test Indo-European, Black, East Asian, and Native American. What she said that no not fully one race that somewhere down the line you have a multiracial background. I also agree with her in saying that if trace back five or more generations that we have other cultures in are family tree, because I to have some Native American and other races that are in my family if I trace back to five generations but I would refer myself to be Native American because both of my parents are black. So I think that would only go for people who have two parents of different races.

So the question should "Isn't it time for the language to move on?" I think it depends, because if Both of your parents are one race and their parents are one race and their parents are one race then whatever race they are that is what you are. It would be different If your mother was of the Asian decent and your farther was of the Latino decent because then you would refer to yourself as the trait you look more like or you could say you are biracial.

I also think whatever is on your birth certificate then you could also refer to that. So going back to the whole article saying Obama is not the first black president, if keep going back far in generations and find we had other races in our family tree will we ever have a fully raced president?