Obama was black 148 years ago.

Kendra Jones,
Selma, AL.

As a white woman who voted for Obama twice, I found myself wanting to claim him as my own. “He’s half white, I’d insist to myself.” But then I began to think about our past anti-miscegenation laws in the 19th century. An individual with as little as 1/32nd percent African ancestry would have been labeled as Black–and denied.the status of a full human being. Obama deserves all his beautiful blackness. America wouldn’t have had it any other way.