Please note I did not say they should try to say they are white, either. I totally understand very few “blacks” are fully so throughout their ancestry. The construct of “race” is as much cultural as it is anything remotely related to sciences like genetics or anthropology.
Examining Obama’s own writings verifies my point. He was raised as a child of mixed race in a white world, especially after his grandparents took him and his mother in due to her illness. He only took on the “I’m black” moniker when he determined that it put him in better standing for special consideration in school and politics. However, he had/has no cultural link for “keepin’ it real”. Thus, my point of the first sentence in my first post in this thread.
Maybe not, but you did say he(and his supporters) shouldn't call him black because he was half white. That amounts to the same thing. What do you want him to call himself? A half breed? He calls himself black for two reasons: One, he looks black. Two, he gets more sympathy that way. A third reason is because there is simply nothing else he can call himself and not be ridiculed for it.