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...about HIS RACE being African American, Black, Kenyan. For god's sake, STOP IT ALREADY.
The man is MIXED RACE, one half black but also one half white. His white half is from English and Irish ancestry so why aren't those being trumpeted as his ancestry too? What is wrong with being English and Irish? Are they so horrid they must be hidden away so he can be idolized as being black when he clearly isn't?
It's ridiculous really that all this focus is on his blackness. He isn't black and anyone who overlooks the other 50% of his ancestry is just showing their bigotry to his other ancestry -- yes, the media is racist when they put all their focus on him being black, him being Kenyan. That is simply just not true - he is more than just those things and to ignore the rest speaks volumes of the bigotry and narrowmindedness of what is apparently a good sized portion of this country and obviously the majority of our retarded American journalists.
What is important here is: He is AMERICAN, born here and raised, for the most part, here in America by an American mother and grandmother. He is not Kenyan by any stretch of the imagination, he is a first generation American!
