It is generally conceded that calling someone “black” when he or she does not identify as “black” is an insult. Only black ODR supporters and their allies try to confuse the issue when the criminalized sub-Saharan “blood” is involved.
At “Interracial Voice,” I was constantly assaulted by black ODR supporters who whined “What’s wrong with being black?!” The answer, of course, is that EVERYTHING is wrong with it when you’re NOT “black.”
Even the most pro-black groups concede that calling someone “black” can be a racist insult. Blond Rashida Jones “black” and the nearly ebony Vijay Singh and Bridget McCain dark “Caucasians”? I’m not buying it. “Racial classification” is a con game designed for fools.
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=315663
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0821c.html
Bush Supporters Spread Racist Rumors About McCain’s Daughter. Bush supporters in South Carolina made race-baiting phone calls saying that McCain had a “black child.” The McCain daughter, Bridget, was adopted from Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh. In August 2000, columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that the McCains “are still seething about Bush supporters in South Carolina spreading word of their dark-skinned adopted daughter.” [Time, 3/6/00; Boston Globe, 3/4/00; Dowd column, New York Times, 8/9/00]
Picture of Bridget McCain: here.