Blackness is the degree to which individuals, regardless of their ethnic background, are sympathetic to or a part of their nationality?s mainstream ethnic-African culture, which is totally unrelated to Africa?s culture unless those individuals are also African citizens. A person may be thought of as ?losing their blackness? by not adhering to the mainstream thoughts of Black people?s community. In Politics Former US President Bill Clinton, despite being Caucasian, has been called "the first Black president."[LINK: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html] Clinton as the first black president The New Yorker, Morrison, Toni, 1998, October Debra Dickerson, while speaking to Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report (February 8, 2007), stated that U.S. Senator Barack Obama, despite having a father of Kenyan descent, was not black because he had not lived and suffered the same

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