Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed on the first African-American president Barack Obama

Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about the significance of the first African American family in the White House.

Annette Gordon-Reed was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for "The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family". She is Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers, USA

Annette Gordon-Reed was in Australia in April 2009 for a Sydney Ideas lecture on "Barack and Michelle Obama: Rewriting the Narrative of American History". The lecture was co-presented with The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the United States Studies Centre and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) at the University of Sydney.

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[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

Obama is BIRACIAL NOT Black

[rottwieler20]

Yes true and ontil most people realize this truth they will all live in deniel

[YouMockMe]

That is a very true and valid argument.

Another thing to consider is that what happens when the American blood runs out or has become so diluted it no longer exists; at what level does it no longer exist and become reclassified? For example the Cubans. Essentially there are no Cubans as they all died of disease. Current Cubans are actually Spaniards. I wonder where the line is? This concept also crosses over to the Haitian and Puerto Ricans as they are nothing but immigrants. Any thoughts?

[rottwieler20]

Obama the first (Half Caste) president

[rottwieler20]

For Example (TINA TUNER) the singer is a true identified (African African) because one of her perents is (Native American)~and the other is (Black African)~~~~And (Johnny Dept) the actor is a true identified (European American) because he is Half (Native American) and half (White) At first there was (Sixty~ Million Natives) now thers only (Eaith~ hundred thousand)

[rottwieler20]

Obama is the first (Half Caste) president..And yes he is not African American..He is (African European) no Black person in American cause to be be Afro American one of your perents must be (Native American)

[YouMockMe]

But Obama isn't African-American? He is half aryan and part african and arybic. Further more he is not black, he is mellado.

Blacks going into law... isn't that the next logical step?