Arf! When Will The One Drop Rule Cease?!?
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Okay, hip hapa homeez, I'm still recovering from film festival festivities so I'll just leave you with this thought tonight.After a friend alerted me to the link below (thanks, Kahlil!),
I read the story with a shake of my head. Evidently, our new hip hapa homee prez recently referred to himself as a "mutt". I know a lot of you do that, too. But my question to AP reporter Alan Fram is this: Dude, can you not do the math?
Here is a direct quote from his article:
"By now, almost everyone knows that Obama's mother was white and father was black, putting him on track to become the nation's first African-American president."
Besides hyphenating African American (does anyone still do that?), reporter Fram obviously struggles with elementary mathematics. In case you missed it, let me run that by you again:
"...mother was white and father was black...the nation's first African-American president."
If being half white and half black equals one African American then why doesn't half white and half black equal one Caucasian? 'nuff said. I'm off to Hapawood where hip hapa homeez rule!
Oh, yeah. Now that's a real mutt in the pix above.
Your Hip Hapa,
Yayoi