I find it difficult to believe anybody would throw out "black" as a race. That's about as specific as saying my heritage is "white". From: http://www.arogunda

I find it difficult to believe anybody would throw out "black" as a race. That's about as specific as saying my heritage is "white". From: http://www.arogundade.com/is-barack-obama-black-or-mixed-race.html http://www.arogundade.com/is-barack-obama-black-or-mixed-rac... Barack Obama's ... was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents were of contrasting ethnic backgrounds. His mother, the late Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. She was an American of English and Irish ancestry. Obama’s father, the late Barack Obama Sr., was born in Kenya’s Nyanza Province. He was of African heritage, belonging to an ethnic group called the Luo. They make up Kenya’s third largest ethnic group, with other members scattered across eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania.