Barack Obama: African American

Obama four more years. I must confess I like the idea. Every time a Republican rises to power some conflict follows somewhere in the globe and since this world is growing smaller and smaller (that's an oxymoron of sorts) somehow the rest of us is affected at some level. Democrats are better in that aspect.

Anyway, this article is not about U.S politics, but ethnic related terms:

Let's begin with President Obama who claims to be African American and he is or at least he looks African American but in the end he is not, not completely at least. His father was from Kenya, Africa, but his mother was from Kansas, U.S. and she was white. Thus, the word is Mulatto ( a person born from a black parent and a white parent).

In order not to sound racist is that in U.S. legal documents certain races are not called as they are called in Spanish for example (where a white man is just a white man and a black man is just a black man) and thus members of the white race are called Caucasians and members of the black race are called African Americans.
BTW, the character in the pic next to Obama is The Savage Dragon, a character created by Erik Larsen.