Trying to determine heritage, in today's environment, is a challenge, on a good day. A person may identify as 'Black' but regardless if he's white, black, orange or purple, in today's environment, the issue is moot. We see women identifying as Native Americans, Men identifying as women and participating in sports, usually crushing the competition. And we see Blacks identifying as Whites for career advancment.I just wanted to say that based on the angle of the photo, lighting, etc., the guy in the photo doesn't look black. It even made me imagine that it was a white guy posting a photo of his white girlfriend in queen of spade panties, which would be cool too. About Obama, Peggy Lipton, Jennifer Beals and everything else, it's your point of view that must be respected.
Frankly, I don't care one way oer the other, except for the sports thing. As we're seeing being played out in the news today, they offer an unfair advantage to female competitors. Which I think is wrong. Why not just say that all women can participate in all traditionally male teams? They'd never make the cut, but I fear that, given time, there won't be any more 'womans sports'. Instead, it will be a bunch of men who identify as women so they can compete in something less competitive than belonging to male teams.
But like the OP said, everyoone is equally entitled to theire own opinions, just so long as they don't adversly impact me!