Yes, if Obama had become president of a black African country he could be considered their first white president! No disrespect intended but he is just as much white as he is black and everyone ignores that fact. On the other hand, who cares, anyway? Personally, I don't believe Obama will go down as one of our greatest presidents but that has nothing to do with the color of his skin. (Incidentally, I voted for him the first time and against him the second.)
The "one-drop of blood" rule which formerly governed racial identification of Americans is now considered archaic, and people of mixed ancestry are free to identify themselves as they choose. President Obama is called black because that is how he chooses to identify himself. Tiger Woods has referred to himself as "Cablinasian" - Caucasian, black, American Indian, and Asian.
Except that someone who looks white and has black ancestry isn't able to identify as black without receiving death threats. So it doesn't work exactly the way you describe ander217. Much in the way that racism against white people isn't accepted among most black people as a possibility.
racism against white people in the us not being a possibility is not an accepted belief but a technical fact arising from definitions of oppression babe
Nope dude it's the first battle of the US Civil War, Bull Run was the first major battle. Lol you think attacking/siege a fort and seceding from a country is not an act of war? The war started in Sumter.
Not referenced anywhere in the Bible (except sort-of kind-of in Isaiah, and even then the meaning is unclear and definitely does not have any of the 'first woman' implication. It probably means either 'screech owl' or 'night monster'). Lil(l)ith came about during the fifth- to third-century occupation of Israel/Judah and was heavily influenced by Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian culture.
I'd never heard of Lillith the female demon until a few years ago. After I read about her then I realized how hilarious it was that it was the name of Frasier's shrewish ex-wife.
Their first release was different in the US. Also, many of their early albums were "re-packaged" for release in the US, and contain different songs, different song orders, different cover art, etc.
I'm one of those people. The Beatles album was the only one I missed. I guessed... The Beatles, Meet the Beatles, Help!, (Sgt Pepper, Yellow Submarine, The White Album and Abbey Road, even though I knew all of those were wrong), and then I gave up.
As are two of McCartney's wives. His first wife Linda Eastman's name was anglicised from 'Epstein' -- no relation to the Beatles' producer; they were married for 30 years. A few years ago he married Nancy Shevell. Ringo Starr is also married to a Jew (Barbara Bach used to be Goldbach; Bach is her acting name -- she was a Bond girl).
Silly comment. Drake's expedition was only the second full circumnavigation of the globe ever completed, a full 58 years after Magellan's expedition, as rare and difficult as such a voyage was at the time. He was also the first commander of such an expedition to survive the entire trip, since Magellan was slain on Mactan Island in the Philippines.
Shouldn't be better the first person to circunnavegate the world? Or it's just less important because he wasn't english although it was more than 50 years earlier...?
Juan Sebastián Elcano could be described as the first peron to circumnavigate the globe, since he took over after Magellan was killed in battle halfway round and all the other commanders and ships were lost. Only one ship out of the original five returned, with Elcano and 18 crew the only ones to make the entire journey (out of 270 who set off). Very interesting to read the timeline of the voyage:
elbuthole: who said anything about Magellan's expedition being less important? When there's nothing wrong with what someone is saying just attack something they didn't say, right?
I dare state that no president in Russia has been democratically elected. All three so far (Yeltsin, Medyedev and Putin) have been elected in pretty strongly manipulated elections.
While there were some shenanigans, it's still the broad consensus that the Russian presidential election of 1991 was free and fair, and reflected the will of the people.
But...your point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Magellan_expedition