Equal rights for one.

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Abraham Lincoln is mentioned almost every time the media discusses Obama because it's whites' coded way of congratulating themselves for electing a black man and their having made it possible.

Every newsboy and newsgirl feels the need to say/write, at least, and very often apropos of nothing, that Lincoln is Obama's favorite president.

Notably: Obama is considered by the US media and the vast majority of its white people to be black and not white because -- apparently and terribly -- the One-Drop Rule still applies: "A person with any trace of African ancestry is considered black." Obama's mother was white and of Northwestern European ancestry. Obama's father was a black Kenyan, of black Kenyan ancestry. Therefore, Obama's ancestry makes him exactly -- to continue to speak very crudely -- half white and half black.

But we call him black.

Obama, like all bi- or multiracial people, is considered black, instinctively, by white people and white institutions because his skin color doesn't match his own mother's. The One-Drop Rule is embedded in white Americans' thinking.

Which means whites have a lot more discriminating to do:

"Genetic evidence appears to support the Out of Africa hypothesis. In the western half of Eurasia and in Africa, this hypothesis also seems the better explanation, particularly for the apparent replacement of Neanderthals by modern populations." (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History -- scroll to/run a Find for "A Compromise Hypothesis.")

So Europeans and Africans, if not all people, share a common ancestor. A black one. Which means we're all black, according to One-Drop, the rule the US still applies.

Our genes also show that there is more genetic variance within "races" than between them. And that "race" is a stupid social construct (much more here) that has and is and will continue to be used to evil ends.

Skin color, despite science, remains a handy dividing line between an Us and a Them, and a handy indicator of who to hate, even if it's ourselves.

And let's hope Obama funds scientific research and gets it into public schools to begin the end of America's intense stupidity.
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