They probably did, but still doesn’t answer my question. Inquiring minds want to know.
The guy didn't grow up as a 'black kid.' He grew up as a Marxist, and America was his enemy from the get go --- from his 60s Marxist mother, his transient anti-Western Muslim fathers, and his 1930 radical(Stalinist) white grandparents.
Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson actually nailed him early on but then backed off when the media fell in love with him. They said he wasn't 'legitimate.' As racist and corrupt as those two bit hustlers are, they were correct on that. The guy is not a Black American. He's not a white American. He's an anti-American.
Obama never lived the same Black experience as most blacks have. Never the bad, and never the good. He was always token, never a real person with real experiences.
Most blacks don't hate America. Obama does, only because he was trained to from the very start.