I once said that this countries first black president and first female president would both be Republicans... I was wrong on the first account and I may well be wrong on the second.. the American people are just too stupid to foresee the damage that both would cause...
Someone else pointed that out here on FR the other day, I forget who it was.
Obama, regardless of questions about his birthplace and parentage, is clearly mixed race, no more than half black. He also clearly did not have an African-American upbringing. (In terms of upbringing, Bill Clinton may very well have been more "black" than Obama).
Rep. West was born black, grew up black, and seems to have made it rather inconsequential in his life.