[Zhang Fei]

Aside from Obama’s hidden background, actions and motives and whether he described himself as a foreign student, it’s been my observation and experience for more than 30 years that colleges go out of their way to recruit students from African and other “underrepresented” nations.

I hear what you're saying, but Michelle Obama, who's community college material at best without a black quota, got a full ride to Princeton. At the end of four years at Princeton, she could not write a grammatically-correct essay. BO is leagues ahead of Michelle.

[Zhang Fei]

Aside from Obama’s hidden background, actions and motives and whether he described himself as a foreign student, it’s been my observation and experience for more than 30 years that colleges go out of their way to recruit students from African and other “underrepresented” nations.

Your white African-born student brought up in the US anecdote indicates that the guy was probably a green card holder or a citizen. These are subject to domestic quotas. International students are not. As a domestic student, if he checked off the African-American box, he was treated as a domestic black applicant, unless he needed a student (F-1) visa to go to school in the US. I had lots of international African classmates, and they were both more ambitious and brighter than the average domestic student, of any color. That tells me they were subjected to higher standards, admissions-wise.