Your getting close to the mark, but the truth is, Obama was raised a privileged white boy.
We, and I assume most voters, know very well that Obama was raised a rich white boy, and that Ebonics is not his native language. But it helps to pretend, to fantasize that he, like Whoopie Goldberg, is a victim of slavery, and that is what the country, helped by the MSM, fantasized in 2008 and in 2012.
I maintain that he was elected and re-elected on the race card, or more exactly on the fear of the stigma of racism.