[quote=CA renter]Not sure about the conservatives, but I’m guessing it has nothing to do with mixed races being “bad.”

This is just a guess, but perhaps white people are sick of the black community trying to co-opt him as being their exclusive representative when, in reality, he’s just as white as he is black — he “belongs” to both groups. IMHO, it’s anti-reverse-racism. ;)[/quote]

I’m an independent and I like to point out he is half and half – and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I like people no matter what their background – heck, I have several ethnicities in me as well in ancestors of the last 200 years.

I’m pretty sick of everyone calling him black just because he is half-black….why can’t he be called white just as easily?

It seems pretty racist to me to call him black if he has a drop of non-white in him.