is an American of African immigrant extraction." Dickerson asserts, because "in our political and social reality means those descended from West African slaves." Rather, Dickerson continues, "by virtue of his white American mom and his Kenyan dad. "Obama isn't black," the journalist Debra J.
Against this backdrop, some observers have questioned Obama's racial standing.
Obama, moreover, had had little contact with his father he was raised mainly in Hawaii by his mother and her relatives, in settings far afield from conventional black American communities. One of the reasons the interviewer posed this question is that Obama's mother was a white American and his father a black Kenyan. Soon after declaring his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, Senator Barack Obama was asked on the television program 60 Minutes when he had "decided" that he was black. "How difficult it sometimes is to know where the black begins and the white ends." Note: Author's footnotes have been omitted.
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