"Isn't it time for the language to move on?"

In the following article I read," He's Not Black By Marie Arana". The author starts off by talking about Obama and how people refer to him as the first black president. When technically he is not. He is also half white and was born in Hawaii.Marie believes our language is the reason why we call him black. The old racist rule is that if your are part black then you are all black, that there was no such thing as half white and half black. Which Obama is. In the article Marie quotes that on the Newspaper that next day it stated on the cover, "Obama Makes History: U.S. Decisively Elects First Black President". She explains how this quote was and is constantly being used in a variety on media organizations.

I do agree with what she thinks about the whole Obama situation. I do think that majority of people voted for Obama because they saw a chance to have some one who is partially black. I think that because I would hear that from a lot of people. I would hear ," He is going to make a strong black president" A lot through out his campaign. People should understand that he is not only black,he is biracial.But going back to the main point of this blog which is what I think about when Marie writes in her article, "Isn't it time for the language to move on?" The Obama being called first black president is a great example on how people now a days use that kind of language.

I think basically what she is saying is that people shouldn't just refer to people as black, white, hispanic,asian but should look more in depth and not say some one is black because of their skin tone, and that is what she sees in the language these days andexplains that it is time for this to change like when she writes,"It's as if we have one foot in the future and another still mired in the Old South. "